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COLOMBO (News 1st); Sri Lanka Police said 6 people were arrested for their involvement in assaulting a group of students from the Ragama Medical Faculty.Four students of the Ragama Medical Faculty were injured following an assault by an outside group early on Wednesday (2).Sri Lanka Police said three students were admitted to the Ragama Hospital and another was admitted to the Negombo Hospital.The injured were all students who were at the Men’s Dormitory of the Ragama University and were 4th-year students.According to the students, 15 people arrived in two vehicles and carried out an assault.Sri Lanka Police said one person was arrested and one vehicle was seized.University students who were witnesses to the assault told News 1st that an Identity Card noting ‘Personal Staff of MP Arundhika Fernando’ fell off one of the attackers.

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Anxiety and frustration are growing among Ottawa residents, as throngs of truckers and other demonstrators who arrived last week to protest Canada’s COVID-19 restrictions continue to disrupt life in the capital. From traffic jams and shuttered businesses, to noise-polluted nights and people urinating in the streets, Abigail Bimman looks at why Ottawans are calling for action on the demonstrators.

Sharon Stone was critical of Joe Rogan amid the ongoing controversy surrounding the spread of COVID-19 misinformation, and Spotify's decision to add a warning to all podcasts on its platform discussing the ongoing virus.Stone, 63, spoke Tuesday in Beverly Hills, California with TMZ, where she was asked about the ongoing developments over Rogan and his podcast, which drew attention last month after rock icon Neil Young pulled his music from the platform in protest of Rogan's content in regards to the pandemic.Rogan, 54, garnered controversy after a December 31 podcast of The Joe Rogan Experience in which he chat with Dr. Robert Malone, an anti-vaccine proponent who was previously banned from Twitter over the spread of COVID misinformation.

COLOMBO (News 1st); Four students of the Ragama Medical Faculty were injured following an assault by an outside group early on Wednesday (2).Sri Lanka Police said three students were admitted to the Ragama Hospital and another was admitted to the Negombo Hospital.The injured were all students who were at the Men’s Dormitory of the Ragama University and were 4th-year students.According to the students, 15 people arrived in two vehicles and carried out an assault.Sri Lanka Police said one person was arrested and one vehicle was seized.

PHOENIX - A measure aiming to protect workers fired from their jobs for not receiving the COVID-19 vaccine cleared its first hurdle in the Arizona House on Feb. 1. This means the bill to protect those who refused to get the vaccine under any exemption, medical, religious, or other qualifying circumstances, will move on to the next round.

TAMPA, Fla. - The greatest of all time gave the Tampa Bay Buccaneers the greatest two years in the team's history.Tom Brady signed on with the Bucs in March 2020 at the start of the pandemic, shocking the sports world by leaving the winningest NFL franchise for a team with the worst winning percentage in all of sports. FROM 2020: It's official: Tom Brady is going to be a Tampa Bay BuccaneerBrady didn't come to be the savior, but he was."Nothing is going to be perfect for a long time, but we're going to work our tails off to get it right," Brady said in his initial meeting with the press after becoming a Buccaneer in 2020."This is difficult for me to write, but here it goes: I'm not going to make that competitive commitment anymore," Tom Brady wrote. "I have loved my NFL career, and now it is time to focus my time and energy on other things that require my attention."MORE: Tom Brady’s retirement announcement thanks Tampa Bay, makes no mention of New EnglandWith the world in a shutdown, Brady quickly went to work, defying the NFL with his own private workouts on the campus of Berkeley Prep High School.

COVID-19-related deaths on Tuesday, lifting the death toll in the area to 361 including 48 victims so far in 2022.“Today we are reporting two deaths in our community related to COVID-19,” Dr. Hsiu-Li Wang, medical officer of health stated.

HOUSTON - A 10-year-old Houston boy battling terminal cancer reached a milestone Monday completing his goal of being sworn into 100 law enforcement agencies, but perhaps the bigger story is the timely impact he’s having and the man beside him all along.We’ve heard his name before, Devarjaye Daniel. On Monday, he was sworn into the Houston Independent School District’s police department, also number 100.BACKGROUND: Houston 9-year-old with terminal cancer hopes to be sworn-in by 100 law enforcement agencies"I knew he was going to get to the 100 pretty quick. I know how the community is and law enforcement, like the military for myself.

Spotify has been accused of “hiding behind the language of internet platforms” to avoid taking responsibility for its content amid ongoing controversy over anti-vax material on comedian Joe Rogan’s podcast. Musician Neil Young pulled his back catalogue from the streaming site last week to protest sharing a platform with The Joe Rogan Experience, which he accused of spreading false information about vaccines.

COLOMBO (News 1st) Sri Lankan State Minister Nalaka Godahewa was confronted by passengers on Tuesday (1) morning for delaying a bus service.Godahewa is the State Minister of Urban Development, Waste Disposal, and Community Cleanliness and he faced strong opposition from passengers when inspecting buses that were to operate from Manning Market in Colombo.

Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) was at 54.0 in January, down from 55.5 in December and signalling the weakest improvement in the health of the sector since last September.

Nicola Sturgeon will make her weekly statement on covid today as her government continues to talk up the benefits of homeworking.

Joe Rogan introduces fighters during the UFC 269 ceremonial weigh-in at MGM Grand Garden Arena on Dec. 10, 2021, in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Carmen Mandato/Getty Images) Neil Young vs Joe Rogan seems like the strangest of cultural clashes.Yet the 76-year-old rock star's protest over coronavirus-related content on Rogan's popular Spotify podcast has ignited a hot debate over misinformation and free speech, bruising a streaming service that has become the central way that millions of people around the world experience music."Rockin' in the Free World"? Not on Spotify.

Number of COVID-19 deaths in Manitoba continues to rise Colin Furness, an infection control epidemiologist and assistant professor at the University of Toronto, says this shows just how far-reaching the Omicron variant is.“What it says is that the Omicron variant, while mild for many, is still really dreadful for some,” Furness told Global News.“Overall, across the population there’s less hospitalizations, there’s less severe outcomes. But the fact of the matter is that far more people are becoming infected.

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COVID-19-related deaths in the region Monday, raising the death toll in the area to 359, including 20 victims announced over the past week.“Today we are reporting 11 deaths in our community related to COVID-19,” Dr. Hsiu-Li Wang, medical officer of health, stated.

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FILE - Comedian Joe Rogan performs during his appearance at The Ice House Comedy Club on April 17, 2019, in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Michael S.

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Joe Rogan is addressing the controversy surrounding his Spotify podcast.

Alberta will become the first province in Canada to require a personal health number to use safe injection sites. But as Heather Yourex-West reports, advocates say this will increase overdose deaths in the province.

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07 December 2021, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Villingen-Schwenningen: The application app Spotify can be seen on the display of an iPhone SE. Photo: Silas Stein/dpa (Photo by Silas Stein/picture alliance via Getty Images) Spotify continues to face the mounting backlash of Joe Rogan’s controversial podcast, which many listeners accuse of spreading COVID-19 misinformation.Spotify airs the popular podcast, "The Joe Rogan Experience," where last month the comedian interviewed Dr.

Ontario are set to open their doors once again on Monday to fully vaccinated patrons, but with COVID-19 levels likely just past a peak, some question if “fully vaccinated” should be redefined.Businesses and facilities that were closed early this month in response to surging cases driven by the highly transmissible Omicron variant are being allowed to reopen with capacity limits and will need to operate under the vaccine certificate system. That means only allowing customers who show proof they’ve received two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, which is currently considered fully vaccinated.

the trucker convoy started appearing on Ottawa streets, some Twitter users shared a particular photo: a pickup truck with a confederate flag flying from the bed.Now, as the convoy descends on Ottawa with the stated aim of opposing all COVID-19 mandates, anti-hate experts allege those with white nationalist and Islamophobic views don’t just represent the fringes of the movement but are among the organizers of the convoy.“We’re saying that this is a far-right convoy because — from day one — the organizers themselves are part of the far-right movement,” said Evan Balgord, executive director of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network.“They have previously been involved in far-right movements and have made Islamophobic comments in the past.” Trucker convoy protest arrives in Ottawa for multi-day demonstration It can be difficult to determine who is a key organizer of the convoy, but there are some names that emerge time and time again — whether as authors of the $7.4million GoFundMe campaign, as points of contact on the website that boasts a petition with 240,000 signatures, or on social media posts providing widely-shared directions to anyone hoping to join.Global News contacted all the organizers mentioned in this story, but none responded by the time of publication. Jason LaFace, an Ontario organizer, did pick up the call, but upon the reporter identifying themselves, immediately laughed, said “no thank you,” and hung up the phone.The convoy initially kicked off with a focus on opposing vaccine mandates — especially the one aimed at truckers.

A soldier of the 46th Air Assault battalion is seen along the point of contact outside New York, Ukraine in the Donetsk Region. (Photo by Wolfgang Schwan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) A Russian lawmaker is encouraging residents of the rebel-controlled areas of Ukraine to join the Russian army, a sign that Moscow is continuing to try to integrate those territories as much as possible amid Western fears that Russia is planning to invade Ukraine.Viktor Vodolatsky said Saturday that residents of the regions controlled since 2014 by Russia-backed rebels fear assaults by Ukrainian forces and that those who hold Russian passports would be welcomed in the military."If Russian citizens residing in the (territories) want to join the Russian Armed Forces, the Rostov regional military commissariat will register and draft them," Vodolatsky, deputy chairman of parliament committee on relations with neighbors, told the state news agency Tass.Russia has granted passports to more than 500,000 people in the territories.

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UFC babe Julianna Pena claimed that Covid is a 'money grab' and a plot to 'kill us' during an incredible interview on the Joe Rogan Experience Podcast. Pena, otherwise known as the Venezuelan Vixen, is the current UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion and ranked No.4 in the UFC's women's pound for pound rankings.The 32-year-old beauty packs a punch in the octagon, and she didn't pull any punches with her views on Covid while talking to Joe Rogan either.

Police warn of ‘consequences’ for violence as trucker convoy nears Ottawa “The organizers have advised us that this will be a peaceful demonstration. They have confirmed that there will be a large number of trucks and participants, and that the main planned demonstrations will take place on Saturday and Sunday,” Sloly told reporters.“With demonstrations of this scale, there are significant risks to be mitigated, but that we cannot fully eliminate.”Sources tell Global News that federal national security officials have held multiple briefings with local law enforcement officials ahead of Saturday’s planned demonstrations, which are expected to include well-known white supremacist and far-right personalities.While Sloly said Ottawa police have been in contact with the demonstrations’ main organizers, he warned police expect a number of “parallel demonstrators” that they have not been able to “engage fully with.”“There are also social media actors locally, nationally and internationally.

Joni Mitchell says she stands with Neil Young and has decided to remove all her music from streaming giant Spotify.Earlier this week, Young pulled his music from Spotify after giving the company an ultimatum over concerns about podcaster Joe Rogan spreading misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine on his show “The Joe Rogan Experience.”In a statement on her website Friday, Mitchell says she is taking action because “irresponsible people are spreading lies that are costing people their lives.”Mitchell says she also stands with the scientific community on the issue. Spotify taking down Neil Young’s music after his Joe Rogan ultimatum On her website, she includes a letter signed by a coalition of scientists, medical professionals, and professors that criticizes Spotify for featuring Rogan podcasts that they say include misinformation about the pandemic, including discouraging vaccinations in young people and children.Spotify, which has a multi-year distribution agreement with Rogan, granted Young’s request on Wednesday and within hours began taking down his albums.“I Stand With Neil Young!” Mitchell says in the statement on her website.“I’ve decided to remove all my music from Spotify,” reads the statement.

Simu Liu is opening up about his own turn with coronavirus in a series of new tweets.

COVID-19-related death in Waterloo Region, raising the death toll in the area to 348.The agency does not update its dashboard on weekends but there were 20 deaths reported over that eight-day span. Omicron infectivity period doesn’t appear shorter than other COVID variants, Public Health Ontario says The latest victim was connected to PeopleCare Hilltop Manor in Cambridge, where a COVID-19 outbreak was declared on Jan.

HARRISBURG, Pa. - A statewide court declared Friday that Pennsylvania's expansive two-year-old mail-in voting law is unconstitutional, agreeing with challenges by Republicans who soured on mail-in voting after then-President Donald Trump began baselessly attacking it as rife with fraud in 2020's campaign.The decision, by a five-judge Commonwealth Court panel of three Republicans and two Democrats, could be put on hold immediately by an appeal from Gov. Tom Wolf's administration to the state Supreme Court.Still, the decision throws Pennsylvania's voting laws into doubt as the presidential battleground state's voters prepare to elect a new governor and a new U.S.

Simu Liu is sharing some important health information, along with the heartbreaking reason for his message.

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is speaking out against the trucker convoy that is rolling toward Ottawa and says he is disappointed with his brother-in-law, who donated $13,000 to it.

In Europe, the Omicron variant is fueling infectionc rates that are three times higher than at any other stage of the pandemic, and vaccination is the key to preventing serious health outcomes and disruptive staff shortages, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) said today in its latest COVID-19 risk assessment.

In Europe, the Omicron variant is fueling infectionc rates that are three times higher than at any other stage of the pandemic, and vaccination is the key to preventing serious health outcomes and disruptive staff shortages, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) said today in its latest COVID-19 risk assessment.

COVID-19-related death on Thursday, lifting the region’s January death toll to 34.“Today we are reporting one death in our community related to COVID-19. The individual was a female in her 90s,” Dr.

A care worker who turned down the covid jab says he would be "left with nothing" if he is fired over his refusal to get vaccinated.

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh’s brother-in-law has asked for his $13,000 GoFundMe donation to the trucker convoy to be returned, according to an NDP source.

PHILADELPHIA - Forecasters are still trying to get a hold on a coastal storm that's expected to bring heavy snow and whipping winds to parts of the region Friday into Saturday. Temperatures dropped below freezing on Wednesday as a cold front spiked conditions in most places. That trend will worsen overnight as temperatures drop into the teens in most places, while parts north and west of Philadelphia could fall into the single digits. A similar weather day will follow on Thursday with below-average temperature hovering near the freezing point to set the stage for Friday night's coastal storm. Forecasters are still unsure which path the storm will take, but there is growing confidence that areas primarily in New Jersey and Delaware will see several inches of snow. FOX 29's Kathy Orr explained that current models predict light accumulations in southeast Philadelphia and a sliver of neighboring parts of New Jersey.

Neil Young performs in concert during Farm Aid 34 at Alpine Valley Music Theatre on September 21, 2019 in East Troy, Wisconsin. (Photo by Gary Miller/Getty Images)Spotify is currently in the process of removing all of Neil Young’s music from its platform after the rock singer gave the company an ultimatum to "deal with the vaccine misinformation coming from Joe Rogan’s podcast," or lose his music. Rolling Stone Magazine and The Hollywood Reporter reported on Wednesday that Spotify was working to remove Young’s entire catalog of music from its platform following a letter published and then taken down by the Canadian folk and rock legend.Rolling Stone, which first reported on Young’s letter Monday, reported that the post has since been deleted.