Canada ups immigration targets to half million by 2025
OTTAWA: Canada will boost its immigration targets, hoping to welcome a record number of newcomers in order to address a worker shortage in the country, Immigration Minister Sean Fraser announced on Tuesday. “Canada needs more people,” Fraser told a news conference. A large chunk of the population is heading into retirement, according to recently released […]
Russia under pressure to keep grain deal alive
KYIV: Ships continued to bring grain from Ukrainian ports on Monday, suggesting Moscow had stopped short of re-imposing a blockade that might have caused world hunger, despite suspending its participation in a UN programme to safely export grain from the war zone. On Monday, Turkey, Germany and France joined the chorus of voices calling on […]
Elon Musk said to begin laying off employees at Twitter: Report
Elon Musk has planned to begin laying off employees at Twitter, according to a media report, days after he completed the USD 44-billion acquisition of the social media company. The New York Times reported that Musk “planned to begin laying off workers” at Twitter as soon as on Saturday. Citing people with knowledge of the […]
Long COVID: how lost connections between nerve cells in the brain may explain cognitive symptom
Stockholm (Sweden), Oct 28: For a portion of people who get COVID, symptoms continue for months or even years after the initial infection. This is commonly referred to as “long COVID”. Some people with long COVID complain of “brain fog”, which includes a wide variety of cognitive symptoms affecting memory, concentration, sleep and speech. There’s […]
World faces most dangerous decade since WWII: Putin
LONDON: President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that the world faced the most dangerous decade since World War Two, accusing what he cast as a declining West of engaging in nuclear blackmail against Russia. Putin said he had no regrets about sending troops into Ukraine, and accused the West of inciting the war and playing […]
Multi-millionaire Sunak faces ‘too rich for PM’ jibes
LONDON: Britain’s emboldened political opposition aimed jibes at newly-appointed Prime Minister Rishi Sunak over his vast family wealth and past career in investment funds, suggesting he is out of touch amid a rampant cost-of-living crisis. The Guardian leftwing broadsheet joined the fray, headlining a story: “Does Rishi Sunak’s 730 million pound ($840 million) fortune make […]
Sunak will do his best for Britain, Indian billionaire father-in-law says
Rishi Sunak will do his best for Britain when he takes over as prime minister on Tuesday, said his father-in-law, Indian billionaire N.R. Narayana Murthy, the founder of software giant Infosys . The 42-year-old, a practising Hindu who traces his roots to India, will be Britain’s first prime minister of colour and its youngest leader […]
Rushdie lost sight in one eye following attack, says agent
NEW YORK: Salman Rushdie lost sight in one eye and the use of one hand following an attack on stage at a literary event in western New York in August, his agent said on Saturday. Andrew Wylie, who represents literary giants such as Saul Bellow and Roberto Bolano, described the extent of the injuries Rushdie suffered in […]
Trump took home classified documents about China, Iran: Washington Post
WASHINGTON: Classified papers discovered from former US president Donald Trump’s Florida residence contained information about Iran’s missile programme and US intelligence data about China, The Washington Post reported on Friday. The secret documents were recovered when the FBI raided Mr Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in August. “If shared with others, such information could expose intelligence-gathering methods […]
Climate change may heighten risk of virus spillover from Arctic: study
TOKYO: A warming climate could bring viruses in the Arctic into contact with new environments and hosts, increasing the risk of “viral spillover”, according to research published on Wednesday. Viruses need hosts like humans, animals, plants or fungi to replicate and spread, and occasionally they can jump to a new one that lacks immunity, as […]
