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Food delivery company Deliveroo has seen investor demand for its initial public offering (IPO) exceeding the full deal size, setting the stage for London’s biggest initial public offering (IPO) in a decade. The London-based firm is expected to make its stock market debut on March 31 with a market capitalisation of between 7.6 and 8.8 billion pounds ($12.11 billion). Banks working on the deal said on Monday that its books have been covered throughout the price range of between 3.90 and 4.60 pounds per share, indicating investors demand exceeds the full deal size. Deliveroo has opted not to pursue a…

CAIRO, Egypt—The stranded container ship blocking the Suez Canal for almost a week has been re-floated, Inchcape Shipping Services said on Monday. The ship is currently being secured, raising expectations the vital waterway could soon be reopened. The ship was successfully re-floated at 4:30 a.m. local time on a high tide, Inchcape, a global provider of marine services said on Twitter. Ship-tracking service VesselFinder has changed the ship’s status to under way on its website. However, according to disinformation researcher John Scott-Railton, the channel may still be “partially obstructed by the Ever Given, with half of the ship’s body remaining in the undredged half…

The Commons voted by 484 to 76, a majority of 408, to keep powers in place untl the end of September. And Health Secretary Matt Hancock would not rule out a further renewal. He claimed that the laws – unprecedented in peacetime – “remain essential”. But he promised that he would propose renewing the legislation once again only if it was absolutely necessary. He told MPs: “They are exceptional powers for the most extreme of situations.” The six-month extension was approved, even though the Government roadmap envisages lockdown ending in June. Rebel Tory MPs said that it was inappropriate to…

Marc Morano, author of the book “Green Fraud: Why the Green New Deal is Even Worse Than You Think,” told The Epoch Times’ “Crossroads” program that climate change-fighting policies proposed under the Green New Deal framework are part of a broader thrust to push the economy off its free market foundations and control “every aspect of your life.” He also predicted that, while the Biden administration has distanced itself from the Green New Deal, it is already looking to adopt related policies. Morano argued that the Green New Deal framework, which took the form of a House resolution sponsored by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez…

The COVID-19 Assembly, an organization in the United Kingdom, recently announced that it is gathering a team of experts to investigate all of the COVID-19 deaths in the country to ascertain if any may have been wrongly attributed. With over 126,000 deaths in the United Kingdom and over a year into the pandemic, there is still confusion over whether people died of the disease or with the disease. Those concerned with COVID-19 deaths being unduly inflated argue there needs to be a differentiation between the two in determining the actual fatality rate of the CCP virus. The CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus,…

Britain’s Nationwide Building Society and Santander UK have become the latest banks to take an axe to their office space, cementing remote working arrangements put in place during the COVID-19 crisis. Nationwide has told all its 13,000 office-based staff to work from anywhere in the country. The lender said on Thursday it will not renew the leases on three of its offices in its hometown of Swindon in the southwest of England but will retain its headquarters there along with other regional hubs. Santander UK said it will close four offices in Bootle, Newcastle, London Portman House and Manchester Deansgate…

Victory for Scottish church leaders as judge rules government acted unconstitutionally when criminalising gathered worship In an historic judgment, today a judge has ruled that the Scottish Ministers’ decision to ban and criminalise gathered church worship during the current lockdown was unconstitutional and a disproportionate interference of Article 9 ECHR rights. The ruling is believed to be the first successful legal case against covid regulations in the UK. Handing down judgment, Lord Braid also ruled that online worship is not real Christian worship, stating that it is not for the Scottish Ministers to: “dictate to the petitioners or to the additional party, that,…

Twitter acknowledged that it had “incorrectly” applied a warning on a post that showed photos of unaccompanied children huddled under emergency blankets in crowded “cells” at a Texas detention center. “This warning was incorrectly applied by one of our automated tools and it has since been removed,” a Twitter spokesperson told The Epoch Times in an email statement. The post that is the subject of this dispute was authored by Project Veritas, an undercover journalism nonprofit. Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe had posted a video that contained a compilation of photos that shed some light on the burgeoning crisis at the U.S. southern…

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said Tuesday it is suing Facebook in France for allegedly violating the European nation’s consumer code with deceptive promises to fight hate speech and false information. In a press release, the Paris-based free press watchdog alleged that the U.S. social media giant has broken its own terms of services to “allow disinformation and hate speech to flourish” on the platform, including “hatred against journalists” and “significant disinformation about COVID-19.” The RSF cited two reports as evidence of Facebook’s alleged tolerance of hate speech against journalists. One details dozens of user comments containing “insults, threats, and calls for violence” against the French satirical…

Liverpool’s Thiago Alcântara has emphasised the psychological difficulty of playing football in the Covid-19 era, saying the lack of supporters makes it harder to keep going in the final stages of matches. Whereas many high-profile figures, including Liverpool’s manager, Jürgen Klopp, have decried the impact of this season’s packed schedule on players’ fitness, Thiago said the emotional impact was even greater. “More than physical I think it’s psychological,” the midfielder told the Spanish newspaper AS while preparing for Spain’s World Cup qualifiers. “You lack the boost fans give you in the final moments of matches, which gives you that physical…