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President Joe Biden can’t expect a lot of cooperation from Texas. That much has been made clear by state Republicans’ behavior in just the past three months. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton led a far-fetched federal lawsuit to overturn Biden’s victory. After that failed, he brought a suit against the new administration’s plan to pause immigration deportations only two days into Biden’s presidency. Just days after that, Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued an executive order pledging to fight Biden’s climate-change agenda and when a bitter winter storm knocked out the state’s power, Abbott erroneously blamed Democrats and renewable energy for the crisis. For the Republicans who dominate Texas politics, Biden’s honeymoon ended before he had unpacked all his boxes in the White House.
Record coronavirus death toll in Hungary Officials have sought to mitigate the surge with new restrictions and a vaccination programme that has made Hungary one of the most-vaccinated countries in Europe. Associated Press Reporter 17 March, 2021 09:06
Hungary announced a record number of Covid-19 deaths as a powerful surge of the pandemic put an unprecedented strain on the country’s health care.
Health officials announced 195 deaths in the last 24 hours, breaking the previous peak of 193 in early December.
The number of patients being treated for the disease rose to nearly 10,300, also a record, and nearly three times the number of those admitted to hospital in early February when the latest surge began.
Benjamin Mallet, Reuters
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Citizens protest against the military coup in Yangon, Myanmar, on March 111. (Source: Maung Nyan/Shutterstock.com) Your browser does not support the audio element.
PARIS Total faced calls from rights groups on March 16 to suspend payments on operations in Myanmar following a coup, after the oil group said it was worried about the situation while also highlighting the importance of its business there.
The French company, which has been in Myanmar since 1992, operates at the Yadana and Sein offshore fields, which supply Myanmar’s domestic market via a pipeline built by national company Myanmar Oil and Gas Enterprise (MOGE).
Ryan Reynolds has been asking David Beckham for advice about running his soccer club
The Hollywood actor and his showbiz pal Rob McElhenney recently completed their takeover of Wrexham Football Club in north Wales, and Ryan has suggested that the sporting icon could offer him some useful tips 17 March 2021
Speaking on This Morning , as reported by the Daily Mirror newspaper, Ryan said: If you can just make heavy eye contact with Beckham for. about 20 seconds, your football knowledge grows exponentially. Sometimes I just FaceTime him and Iâm just like, âDonât speak. Just stare at meâ.
Ryan, 44, and the former England captain - who owns Inter Miami in Florida - previously starred together in a TV commercial.
Fonterra says its stand-out market continues to be China
Fonterra says its stand-out market continues to be China 17 March 2021
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The dairy giant has posted normalised Earnings Before Interest and Tax of 684 million, up 17 percent, for the first six months of the financial year.
In Greater China, Fonterra s normalised EBIT was 339 million dollars, a 38 percent increase.
But the co-op says it s decided to sell-off the joint venture JV farms in China, by the end of this calendar year.
CEO Miles Hurrell says it s in line with the strategy to focus on New Zealand milk.