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OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan provides humanitarian aid to Uzbek labour migrants abroad Format On 5 February, the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan (PCUz), John MacGregor handed over personal protection equipment and humanitarian aid to the Deputy Director of the Agency for External Labour Migration under the Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Hojiakbar Fayzullahodjayev. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Uzbek labour migrants in Kazakhstan...

By Hamish MacPherson Glen Fruin, between Gare Loch and Loch Lomond, saw one of the bloodiest clan battles ever fought IT was on this date in 1603 that one of the bloodiest and certainly one of the most one-sided of all clan battles was fought between Clan MacGregor and Clan Colquhoun in Glen Fruin, which lies between Loch Lomond and the Gare Loch. Nowadays the Glen contains the A817 which is the upper route to the nuclear submarine bas...

The revelation came in confidential documents released as part of the 1990 State Archives. One document revealed Taoiseach Charles Haughey had directed senior civil servant Dermot Nally to ask the British Ambassador Nicholas Fenn to call to see him on September 20, 1990, over alarm in Dublin at remarks made by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The Government felt the prime minister’s remarks somehow hinted there was Irish responsibility for what had happened. Mrs Thatcher had launched a scat...

A small fold of black Highland cattle enjoying the sunset over Loch Awe, near Dalmally. They are part of the much larger Cladich fold of Highlanders belonging to Jon and Queenie Strickland, and are running with Balach Dubh of Craigowmill, an aged bull bou UK GOVERNMENT officials need to wake up to the severity of the threat posed by African swine fever and enforce stricter biosecurity measures. This message came at the start of October, from pig farmer and chair of NFU Scotland’s pigs commi...

£70 million waste incinerator green-lit for Perthshire creating 230 jobs © Kenny Smith Chairman John MacGregor, Chief executive Allan MacGregor and John Ferguson at the location of new £60m incinerator at Binn Farm. Sign up for our daily newsletter of the top stories in Courier country Thank you for signing up to The Courier daily newsletter Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up A £70 million waste incinerator has been green-lit for rural Perthshire after a decade l...

Cubic’s Smart Ticketing Technology Now Available Across Gold Coast Light Rail Cubic Transportation Systems continues expansion of contactless payment technologies to Queensland, Australia SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cubic Corporation (NYSE:CUB) today announced its Cubic Transportation Systems (CTS) business division’s smart ticketing technology is now available for travelers across the entire Gold Coast Light Rail network in Queensland, Australia as part of a trial. Gold Coast Light Rail cu...

Posted on 8608 Cubic Corporation (NYSE:CUB) today announced its Cubic Transportation Systems (CTS) business division’s smart ticketing technology is now available for travelers across the entire Gold Coast Light Rail network in Queensland, Australia as part of a trial. Gold Coast Light Rail customers are the first to tap into the Queensland Government’s $371 million world-class smart ticketing system, which is due for full deploy...

12/11/2020 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 12/11/2020 07:41 Celebrating Human Rights Day in Uzbekistan The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan, together with the National Human Rights Centre of Uzbekistan, co-hosted a blended event to mark Human Rights Day. The International Human Rights Day is observed every year on 10 December, the day the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. The event in Tashkent was attended by more than 1...