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Huge B-52 bombers and aircraft carrier being sent to Middle East in warning to the Taliban
Updated: Apr 24 2021, 14:40 ET
HUGE B-52 bombers and aircraft carrier are being sent to the Middle East as a warning to the Taliban.
The Pentagon has deployed the aerial bombers in the region to support the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, spokesman John Kirby said on Friday.
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Afghan Taliban fighters in Laghman Province, Alingar district, 2020Credit: Getty I would advise the Taliban that we will be well-prepared to defend ourselves throughout the withdrawal process, Gen. Frank McKenzie, the head of US Central Command, told the Pentagon.
Post-retirement depression: recognizing the signs
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UK health data strategy set to embed pandemic emergency measures
By Josh Lowe on 08/04/2021
Data sharing at clinician level has improved during the pandemic, noted Matthew Gould, chief executive of NHSX. Credit: Mart Productions/Pexels
A forthcoming data strategy from NHSX, the UK’s digital health unit, will advocate for some emergency changes implemented during the pandemic to be sustained, the organisation’s chief executive Matthew Gould told an event on Wednesday.
Speaking at an online session hosted by the London-based Institute for Government think tank, Gould said that the unit’s health and social data strategy will “lock in some of the benefits that we’ve seen over the past year”. While some rules are “appropriate only to an emergency”, he said, others “have a really serious benefit and don’t lead to inappropriate or unsafe use of patient data, and we’ll want to lock them in.”
Parker-Thomson is the South Island’s first Master of Wine, with the other 14 in New Zealand in the North Island. Last Friday, Parker-Thomson was nervously walking up and down the hallway at home when she received a call from the London-based Institute of Masters of Wine. “It was 8.15pm,” Parker-Thomson said. “It was great to get the good news. I was overjoyed. It was a relief . It has been such a long hard pathway to get there.” In 2014, Parker-Thomson completed the two-year Wines and Spirits Education Trust Diploma. After this, she started the Master in Wine programme in 2016, “I started the Master of Wine in 2016, but I took a year off in 2017 because it was intense, I had a 2-year-old at the time, we were renovating the house . so I needed a break.”