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• UNESCO chides Australia over Great Barrier Reef proposal The Chinese host of this year's meeting of the U.N, World Heritage Committee on Sunday defended the body's proposal to label the Great Barrier Reef as “in danger” against Australian government suspicion that China influenced the finding for political reasons. The committee, which is meeting both virtually and in the Chinese city of Fuzhou for the next two weeks, will consider the draft decision on Friday. “Australia, as a member state of the World Heritage Committee, should ... attach importance…
• The revelation of Canada's cultural genocide against native people should shake the world into a historical reckoning that extends beyond empty apologies A memorial for one of the 215 children found in a mass grave in Canada. Getty 751 unmarked graves of indigenous Canadians were uncovered weeks after another mass grave was found. The shocking news should jolt not just Canada, but the entire global community into reckoning with their own histories of cultural genocide. From Australia to China and a number of nations in between, policy and not apologies are what marginalized communities need to heal. Parisa Hashempour is a freelance…
• Liverpool make £17m through sales of Marko Grujic and Taiwo Awoniyi Marko Grujic has re-joined FC Porto on a permanent deal from Liverpool (Picture: Getty Images)Liverpool are set to confirm the sales of Marko Grujic and Taiwo Awoniyi, bringing in a very useful £17m for the two players who were nowhere near the first team. Grujic will head to Porto, where he spent last season on loan, for a fee of £10.5m, while Awoniyi joins Union Berlin, where he also spent the last campaign, for £6.5m. The Telegraph reports that the…
• Juventus keep tabs on Liverpool’s Jordan Henderson as new contract talks hit stalemate Jordan Henderson has two years left on his current deal at Liverpool, with no end to negotiations in sight. (Picture: Getty)Italian giants Juventus are among the clubs reportedly keeping tabs on Jordan Henderson’s contract situation at Liverpool as his future looks more uncertain by the day.  Talks have stalled between club captain Henderson and Liverpool, and with only two years left on his current deal the Merseyside club are left with a dilemma- To try to persuade Henderson to stay…
• Trent Alexander-Arnold says thigh injury is behind him and he is ‘ready to play’ for Liverpool Trent Alexander-Arnold is back in training with Liverpool (Picture: Getty Images)Trent-Alexander Arnold feels fit and ready to play, seemingly recovered from the thigh injury he picked up playing for England in the build-up to Euro 2020. The 22-year-old limped out of England’s friendly win over Austria on 2 June, with the thigh problem keeping him out of their run to the final of Euro 2020. It was a desperately disappointing bit of bad luck for Alexander-Arnold, but he now looks…
• Any waterfront ballpark plan for Oakland A’s should include community benefits and affordable housing, local groups say OAKLAND — If the city is eventually going to let the Oakland A’s build a waterfront ballpark and village at the Port of Oakland’s Howard Terminal, the team must agree to build affordable housing and provide community benefits, a group of residents and community leaders emphasized Wednesday. So far, the team has refused to include any affordable units among the 3,000 homes it wants to build on 55 acres at Howard Terminal. Instead, the A’s have proposed that the city…
• Jurgen Klopp ready to sell Liverpool flop Ben Davies without picking him once Jurgen Klopp is hoping to step up Liverpool’s transfer activity in the next few weeks (Picture: Getty)Liverpool are ready to offload Ben Davies, little over six months after he joined from Preston. Jurgen Klopp’s side suffered an almost unprecedented defensive injury crisis last season which saw the likes of Virgil van Dijk, Joe Gomez, Joel Matip and Trent Alexander-Arnold miss a significant chunk of a difficult campaign. In an attempt to prevent their season from imploding Klopp sanctioned a surprise…
• Restarting VTA light rail will take longer than expected, new leader says Carolyn Gonot, VTA’s new general manager. Q: Given all of the challenges VTA is facing, what do you consider your top priorities right now? A: This tragedy that happened in May, it’s going to be a long healing journey. Bringing light rail back is really important — that’s a major focus right now and over the next six weeks, to make sure that we can get it back up to resuming normal service. Part of that is making sure that the…
• U.S. Passport Agency ends walk-in service at Vermont office The U.S. Passport Agency ended it’s no appointment walk-in service at its Vermont’s office after it was overwhelmed by people seeking the documents amid a backlog of 1.5 million requests, the State Department said Thursday. Dozens of desperate travelers from throughout the Northeast had been traveling to the St. Albans office after getting word people could get passports on the spot and struggling to make appointments at other offices. The Vermont Passport Agency had been offering appointment slots from no-shows…
• As cases of Delta variant rise in Jacksonville, there are fewer places to get tested With an increase in hospitalizations due to COVID-19 connected to the rise of the Delta variant, there is also an increase in the number of people who want to be tested. The problem is, there are now fewer government testing sites available when compared to earlier in the year. News4Jax went looking for testing sites on Thursday and learned finding a place to get tested can be tricky. The Legends Center in north Jacksonville used to be where many showed…