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Facebook Inc ended a one-week blackout of Australian news on its popular social media site on Friday and announced preliminary commercial agreements with three small local publishers. The moves reflected easing tensions between the U.S. company and the Australian government, a day after the country’s parliament passed a law forcing it and Alphabet Inc’s Google to pay local media companies for using content on their platforms. The new law makes Australia the first nation where a government arbitrator can set the price Facebook and Google pay domestic media to show their content if private negotiations fail. Canada and other countries…

Former President Donald Trump on Thursday offered an endorsement of Kansas Republican Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.). “Senator Jerry Moran is doing a terrific job for the wonderful people of Kansas. Strong on Military, Vets, the Border, and our Second Amendment, Jerry has my Complete and Total Endorsement for his re-election in 2022!” Trump said in a statement released by his new Save America PAC. Moran’s office did not immediately respond to The Epoch Times’ request for comment. Moran had voted to acquit Trump at the Senate impeachment trial earlier this month. “The Constitution does not clearly state whether a former president can be tried for impeachment by the Senate,…

Children are not legally required to wear face masks in schools and should not be sent home if they refuse to wear one, government officials said last night. This week Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that secondary school pupils will have to wear masks if they cannot maintain social distancing in No10’s ultra-cautious ‘roadmap’ out of England’s third Covid lockdown. Though masks and regular coronavirus tests are strongly encouraged, officials insisted they are not legal requirements and students should not be ‘denied education’ as a result of non-compliance. Pupils will also be tested three times at school and once at home for two weeks after…

THE bitter war of words between Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon exploded into a genuine threat to the First Minister’s position last night. Holyrood officials finally published Mr Salmond’s written evidence at 7pm, clearing the way for his long awaited testimony under oath tomorrow. In the submission, he claims a cabal of SNP and Scottish Government figures – including Ms Sturgeon’s husband – plotted to have him put behind bars. At around the same time as it was published, Ms Sturgeon gave a series of television and radio interviews to insist that her predecessor was not telling the truth. Mr…

In December, I related a story on this page about a care home worker who told me of a resident who had Covid put on her death certificate after she fell, suffered a bleed from the brain, was taken to hospital and died. All the care home’s efforts to get an explanation failed. In that piece I said that when the pandemic was over we needed a serious inquiry into the figures. Now Bel Mooney, the distinguished author and advice columnist, tells a similar story about her father. The legend below the graphs of government death statistics clearly states, “deaths…

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has agreed with his Australian counterpart Scott Morrison to continue “coordinating efforts” to ensure digital giants will pay publishers for content shared on their platforms. According to an official statement, the two prime ministers spoke Monday on a range of topics, including the need to regulate social media companies. On Monday, Facebook reversed its decision to ban its news service in Australia—which had effectively preventing news outlets from posting content on the social media site, coming after the News Media Bargaining Code passed both houses of parliament. The Bargaining Code is a bill that creates a framework for news companies to negotiate a fair…

British finance minister Rishi Sunak is preparing to extend the stamp duty holiday by three months until the end of June in an attempt to boost activity in the housing market as the country emerges from lockdown, The Times reported on Wednesday. The extension to the policy, which covers sales of properties worth up to 500,000 pounds ($708,100), could cost the government 1 billion pounds, the report bit.ly/3sglJoS added. Britain raised the threshold of property tax to 500,000 pounds last July from 125,000 pounds, exempting nine of 10 people buying a main home from stamp duty. The temporary cuts are set to…

Thomas Tuchel praised an outstanding team effort after Chelsea took control of their Champions League tie against Atlético Madrid thanks to a stunning away goal from Olivier Giroud. Chelsea dominated the first leg in Bucharest, where the game was played due to Covid-19 restrictions, and have a wonderful chance of progressing beyond the last 16 for the first time since 2014 after a VAR review showed that Giroud’s overhead kick was onside. Although Mason Mount and Jorginho will be suspended for the second leg on 17 March, Tuchel could celebrate his most impressive win since replacing Frank Lampard last month. “I am…

Britain’s Heathrow Airport plunged to a 2 billion pound ($2.8 billion) annual loss after passenger numbers collapsed to levels last seen in the 1970s during the pandemic. Heathrow called on the government to agree a common international travel standard to allow passengers to start flying again in the summer and to provide business tax breaks for airports to help them ride out the crisis. The airport, west of London, is hopeful that travel markets will reopen from mid-May after a government announcement on easing lockdown on Monday. Still Britain’s biggest airport, Heathrow last year lost its title as the busiest…

The Crown Office has warned the Scottish parliament it has “grave concerns” about the publication of new claims by Alex Salmond that there was a “malicious and concerted” attempt by former colleagues to banish him from public life. The Crown Office, Scotland’s prosecution service, wrote to Holyrood late last night after it published some explosive allegations by Salmond that Scottish National party and government figures wanted to destroy his reputation “even to the extent of having me imprisoned”. Several sources have confirmed that prosecutors asked the Scottish parliament to either withdraw or redact Salmond’s latest submission, warning it had “grave concerns” it…