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#disruptions

French unions have called for an 11th day of national strikes on 6 April, which could spill over into the Easter weekend.The Louvre was forced to close its doors on Monday (27 March), after dozens of staff members blocked the entrance as part of the wider strikes, prompting museum officials to close the building to visitors.

The Pfizer logo is displayed on the exterior of a former Pfizer factory, on May 4, 2014, in the Brooklyn borough of New York.Mark Lennihan/AP Pfizer is facing a shortage of penicillin due to increased demand and more diagnoses of syphilis, the company said in a letter to its customers this week.The company said there is an "impending stock out situation" for select Bicillin L-A and Bicillin C-R prefilled syringes, Pfizer's brand name of injectable penicillin.

There were blasts in Russia-annexed Crimea early on Sunday, according to Russian and Ukrainian media.Russian social media reported air defence systems were repelling attacks.Baza, a Telegram channel with links to Russia's law enforcement agencies, reported that Ukraine sent drones into the Crimean Peninsula, with Russian air defence shooting down at least one over the port of Sevastopol.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) will look for ways to streamline and simplify mortgage servicing rules in the months ahead following public comment on how to reduce risks for borrowers having trouble with their mortgage payments, according to a blog post from CFPB Director Rohit Chopra.

Saying its initial response was "erroneous," Air Canada is now making cash offers to some travellers in compensation for the airline's recent flight disruptions.The airline had initially said the technical glitch that caused the disruptions was out of its hands, relieving it of obligations to pay compensation.

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California is a "ruff" place to deliver the mail, according to annual data from the U.S. Postal Service that shows the state leads the U.S. in dog attacks against mail carriers.Last year, there were 675 dog bites on mail carriers in California, up from 656 in 2021 and 67% more than Texas, which ranked No. 2 with 404 bites in 2022.

During last summer's travel boom, the chief executive of Heathrow Airport in London asked airlines to stop selling tickets because of staffing shortages.Amsterdam Schiphol set a capacity cap.London Gatwick cut back on flights for July and August.Air Canada reduced its number of flights by about 15 percent.

Coyle argued in a recent blog post that what "transpired in Madera County will be replicated in other parts of California" unless the hospitals receive financial assistance from the state.The hospital association has asked the state for $1.5 billion in immediate relief."While the floodwaters of the COVID pandemic may have receded," Coyle told KQED, "the damage that was done remains widespread.

Dear Fatherly, I'm about to take my family on a Disney vacation to Florida.We're driving down the coast from New England, so we'll have a couple of days on the road before we get to Orlando.The thing is, I'm really not looking forward to it because it seems like every time we go on a family vacation everyone is in a shitty mood all of the time.

Several market experts discussed these topics during the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) Secondary and Capital Markets Conference and Expo 2023 in New York.Steven Abrahams, a senior managing director at Amherst Pierpont Securities, a broker-dealer owned by Santander, said that before the Global Financial Crisis, the market was dominated by investment portfolios looking for the risk and return of MBS assets.

The Federal Aviation Administration said on Tuesday that it had awarded more than $100 million to a dozen airports to help prevent accidents after a series of near collisions this year.The money is intended to reduce incursions, in which planes, vehicles and people mistakenly occupy or obstruct runways.

Travel chaos in southern Sweden on Tuesday A strike threat was averted at the eleventh hour on Monday, but train travellers should nonetheless expect disruptions on Tuesday, after a switch failure halted all trains between Malmo and Copenhagen for several hours in the hours before rush hour.The problems started at around 4.40am and had been fixed by 7am, but southern Swedish transport operator Skanetrafiken warned of knock-on delays and cancellations.

Facing public pressure, federal regulators have decided to let patients receive prescriptions for controlled substances via telehealth for at least another six months.d3sign/Getty Images When COVID-19 was declared a public health emergency more than three years ago, it signaled the beginning of huge change for the health care industry.

F urther train strikes have been announced during May and June, by the RMT and Aslef.The disruptions will coincide with the Eurovision final on May 13, and with the FA Cup Final and Epsom Derby on June 3.Several train companies in and around London will be impacted.Here's everything you need to know.

Ongoing labor actions continue to wreak havoc on major European transit hubs and may upend the plans of travelers this summer.Tens of thousands of flights and trains have been delayed or canceled in recent months as workers across European cities walked out over pay disputes and labor conditions.France and Britain have been hit particularly badly, with prolonged strikes over peak holiday periods.

The W.N.B.A. begins its 27th season on Friday with new rules, new rosters and one big return.Here's what to expect.After nearly 10 months in detention in Russia, Brittney Griner is playing basketball again.Griner's detention clouded the W.N.B.A. season last year.She was arrested at an airport near Moscow on drug charges in February 2022, and subsequently convicted and sentenced to nine years in a penal colony.

Smoke from Australia's worst wildfires in decades may have contributed to the rare triple La Nina weather event that impacted continents thousands of miles away, according to new research.Flames burned through 46 million acres from June 2019 to January 2020 during Australia's summer months thrusting emissions into the Earth's atmosphere and potentially shifting weather patterns, said a study published in Science Advances on Wednesday.

IBM has made it no secret that it believes AI will supplant workers, and during its annual Think event this week, the IT titan revealed how it plans to help enterprise managers do the same.At the heart of this strategy is IBM's newly unveiled Watsonx product suite - essentially a collection of ML tools, hardware, models, data storage, and consulting services stitched together in a way Big Blue claims will make it easier for customers to integrate machine learning within their existing product stacks.

A bee pollenates a flower during a bloom of yellow wildflowers in Palos Verdes Estates, California on May 5, 2023.PATRICK T. FALLON / AFP via Getty Images A newly published assessment from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency warns that three of the most commonly used neonicotinoid insecticides threaten the continued existence of more than 200 endangered plant and animal species.

Several residents of an Etobicoke apartment building who have lived through more than two years of renovations say their landlord is trying to force out long-time renters in an attempt to make more from new tenants Steve Agalitiotis, who has rented a unit at 240 Markland Drive for 13 years, says the building was a great place to live and home to a thriving community until real estate company Carttera Management Inc. took over the property about three years ago and began renovations.

With the Elizabeth Line set to enter its third and final phase on May 21, you'd be forgiven for thinking it's smooth sailing from here on out.That's just in time for the full line to be up and running, just under a year after it first started opening to Londoners.Celebrations will be short-lived, however, with the recent news that an Elizabeth Line strike is being planned for the line's first birthday.

As with most weekends, some stations will be closed or partly closed for TfL to carry out essential work.We've put a quick list together of all the work this weekend to ensure you don't get caught out and can plan ahead.To get the most up-to-date stats of the Underground, you can use the TfL app or website.

Following further breakdown in discussions, the Tube drivers' union Aslef is staging a 24-hour tube strike on Wednesday, March 15.As such, there will be considerable disruption to trains in London, with thousands of RMT station staff joining Aslef members in the walkout.The tube strike will in turn be followed by strike action from the RMT on Thursday, March 16, impacting many parts of the national rail network.

Southeastern service changes as rail workers go on strike Friday and Saturday.(Image: Southeastern) Southeastern has warned customers of travel disruptions with no trains running on Friday and limited services on Saturday amid industrial action.Four strike days have been announced over the next month with ASLEF members striking today (May 12) and RMT members going on strike tomorrow (May 13).

German IT services provider Bitmarck has shut down all of its customer and internal systems, including entire datacenters in some cases, following a cyberattack.The company, one of the largest service providers for German health insurers, said no customer, patient, or insured individuals' data had been accessed in the security breach - at least not according to "the current state of knowledge," according to an April 30 update posted on its temporary website.

Alex J. Wood was in the Yosemite Valley on Monday morning taking photos of El Capitan's picturesque rock face when he heard what sounded like the "loudest thunder ever."He immediately looked up and saw a huge rock falling down the famous granite slab."I couldn't believe what I saw," Wood said, who happened to be taking photos at the time and captured the final portion of the rock's fall on video.

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Mezmo this week added a free trial and a community plan for the Mezmo Telemetry Pipeline service to make it simpler for DevOps teams to store and manage the large amounts of telemetry data they are collecting.Mezmo CEO Tucker Callaway said as more DevOps teams embrace observability to minimize disruptions to application environments, they are struggling to manage the explosion of data being created.

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The software landscape has shifted significantly in recent years as companies digitize their operations and adopt cloud and microservices technologies.The complexity of modern software systems has led to an increasing need for real-time visibility into their performance-resulting in an explosion of telemetry data that is stretching IT budgets and outpacing engineering teams' ability to find value in that data.

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Several media organizations asked a federal judge on Monday to publicly announce his plans to hold a hearing Wednesday in a blockbuster medication abortion case after the judge reportedly moved to keep the hearing under wraps.Across the ideological spectrum, the public is intensely interested in this case, the organizations wrote in their letter to US District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk.

T rains to and from London to the west are expected to be disrupted all day on Wednesday after a fire broke out by a railway line in Maidenhead.The incident is affecting services running on the Elizabeth line, and Great Western Railway.A statement on National Rail's website said: A fire next to the track at Maidenhead means that all lines are blocked.

A federal judge has set a hearing for next week in a blockbuster medication abortion case in Texas but took a series of highly unusual steps to delay making the public aware that such a hearing was being scheduled, The Washington Post reported.US District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, who is hearing the case, held a private call Friday with the case's lawyers and scheduled the hearing for Wednesday, according to the Post.