At the height of the pandemic last year, many private healthcare facilities were only able to offer patients limited services, prompting concerns that insurance firms would continue to rake in premiums while customers were left without viable options.

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When  hit the smart home market in 2018, it may have looked at first like quite an underdog. With its petite 7-inch screen and weighing in at just a hair over 1 pound, Google's schmedium-sized smart display entered the category as something of a welterweight. By comparison, Amazon's flagship smart display -- the 10-inch, over 2.5-pound colossus then simply called  -- was an absolute unit (at over 5 pounds, its latest permutation is ).

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Trump also spoke to G20 world leaders, including Germany, Australia, Russia, China, Japan, India and Saudi Arabia, as well as organizations like the UN, European Commission, WHO, World Bank and the IMO, to discuss how each are dealing with the pandemic.

Are players being asked to limit or sacrifice interactions with family, friends and other support networks? If so, can a safe return to play be delivered through less restrictive, or alternative measures.' 

Schwab also urged FIFA's Bahraini senior vice-president Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa to "use the power of his office" to win Alaraibi's release, warning that failure to do so would be "a fundamental breach of hi



The intervention from the governing body for athletics in the US, which combines the blue riband sport of the Olympic Games and the richest nation, means that the efforts of IOC President Thomas Bach to persist in staging the games now appear to be in tatters.

The document added: '[Although the] economic pressures are real and increasing, it is equally true that so much remains unknown about the harmful nature, transmission and long-term health impacts of COVID-19 that has devastated communities and livelihoods globally.

From April this year, eligible individual Bupa customers, and small and large business customers funding health insurance for their staff, can expect to receive a payment equivalent to around one month's premium.

Sure, the bezel is still dummy thicc, but it's the only part of the Nest Hub you can really say that about -- besides, of course, the 50% (according to Google) louder bass response, which is definitely more Meghan Trainor than Twiggy this time around. Chris Monroe/CNET






With the new Nest Hub, Google didn't try to fix anything that wasn't broken and the end result is a device that's better in several respects than its predecessor without any discernible trade-offs.



The Olympics had to be ‘safe', according to Siegel, in an open letter to the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee: ‘We urge the USOPC, as a leader within the Olympic Movement, to use its voice and speak up for the athletes.

Track and field is the most important sport for NBC so the prospect of the US team being reluctant to attend, or insisting that they could not be competitive because of disruption to preparation, means that pressure is becoming unbearable on Toyko 2020 organisers and Bach to postpone the games, despite the huge costs.



They can't tell us to "train as normal", because nobody can train as normal. ‘They're not thinking about things,' she said.
‘I don't know if blase is the right word. Literally nobody on the planet is training as they normally would.'



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Hakeem Alaraibi, 25, who played for the gulf state's national youth team, fled his homeland and was granted asylum in Australia where he plays semi-professionally for the second-tier team Pascoe Vale FC in

in very trying conditions", Brendan Schwab, executive director of the World Players' Association (WPA), told AFP He was detained entering Thailand for a vacation and held "with a substantial number of other detainees...

Also during the press conference, Attorney General William Barr said people hoarding essential medical supplies like face masks and hand sanitizer will "hear a knock at the door." New laws prohibit both hoarding and price gouging.

The four-page report, entitled Guiding Considerations For A Safe Return To Work And Play, has been drawn up by the World Players' Association ahead of a conference call on Wednesday involving the players' representatives in all major sports, including footballers' union FIFPro, cricketers' equivalent FICA and the bodies representing stars of the NBA, NFL and Major League Baseball.