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30 Dec 2020 in 8:24 The Guardian China and the EU appear to have resolved their differences over protecting labour rights in China and are set to sign a long-delayed investment agreement on Wednesday likely to make the economies of the two blocs more interdependent, The Guardian writes in the article China and EU poised to sign long-delayed investment deal. The investment talks have centred on opening up Chinese markets for European investment, as well as addressing Chinese practices oppos...

New train hall opens at Penn Station, echoing building’s former glory | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS By Christina Goldbaum/The New York Times and Gazette Staff | December 30, 2020 Shares0 NEW YORK — For more than a half-century, New Yorkers have trudged through the crammed platforms, dark hallways and oppressively low ceilings of Pennsylvania Station, the busiest and perhaps most miserable train hub in North America. Entombed beneath Madison Square Garden, the station served 650,000 riders ea...

A screen shows Chinese President Xi Jinping meeting with European leaders on Wednesday. (Johanna Geron, Pool Photo via AP) (CN) — The European Union and China on Wednesday reached a major business investment deal that lets European firms into lucrative Chinese markets and calls for China to ban forced labor and ramp up efforts to protect the environment.    The strengthening of economic ties between the EU and China is a setback for President-elect Joe Biden and American efforts to build an...

A new bill would expand certain uses of drones for law enforcement agencies.

Proposed bill seeks to expand Florida law enforcement drone use by John Haughey, The Center Square  | December 29, 2020 10:00 AM Print this article With hobbyist and commercial drones increasingly filling the skies, regulating how they can be used and who can fly them presents regulatory concerns for state legislatures, particularly when it comes to privacy rights and law enforcement. Florida lawmakers during their 2020 session adopted House Bill 659 by unan...

The three one-woman shows that lit up theatres in 2020 Normal text size Advertisement Empty theatres due to pestilence – routine in Shakespeares time – created financial black holes sucking the lifeblood from companies, venues and individuals. Our governments, meanwhile were bewilderingly slow to understand that COVID was at least as catastrophic for the arts as for the travel and hospitality industries. Streaming, embraced by many musicians, was less attractive to local theatre-makers, giv...

Florida Keys municipalities experienced an overhaul of leadership this year in both appointed and elected positions. In Marathon, Key Colony Beach and Islamorada, city and village managers left or were replaced, and several new elected officials were seated. On Sept. 24, Key Colony Beach City Administrator Chris Moonis informed the city commission he would not seek a new contract. “We wish him well and best of luck in his future endeavors,” Mayor John DeNeale said. Moonis had served t...

Teutopolis Only School District in County w/Enough Board Candidates Published on December 21 2020 5:26 pm Last Updated on December 21 2020 5:26 pm Written by Greg Sapp The Teutopolis Unit 50 school district is the only district in Effingham County with enough candidates to fill the available seats in the April 2021 election. The filing period concluded Monday evening. Teutopolis Unit 50 had four people file for full four-year terms: Michael Ritchie, Brandon Pals, Erin Ordner and Court...

By Richard Gurner This was yesterday’s scene on Brighton beach as an estimated 100,000 people took to the pebbles Holidays in Brighton and Hove are making a huge comeback as thousands of struggling families shun their usual expensive breaks abroad and head for the seaside. As more than 100,000 sun worshippers packed onto the yesterday, online holiday firm lastminute.com revealed hotel bookings in the city were up 63% on the same peri...

Pete Buttigieg revitalized South Bends downtown. Now hes taking on a much bigger challenge. CNN 12/18/2020 By Matt McFarland, CNN Business © Kevin Lamarque/Pool/AP Former South Bend, Ind. Mayor Pete Buttigieg, President-elect Joe Bidens nominee to be transportation secretary, speaks after Biden announced his nomination during a news conference at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Del., Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Pool/AP) South Bend, Indiana has a transit budge...