The Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) has reported that preliminary data for June 2024 shows robust growth in international air passenger markets, fuelled by healthy demand for air travel approaching the peak summer holiday season. Overall, Asia Pacific airlines carried a combined total of 28.9 million international passengers during the month, a 21% year-on-year increase and 90.2% of the corresponding month in 2019. Demand in revenue passenger kilometres (RPK) grew by 23.8% year-on-year, almost matching the 24% expansion in available seat capacity. As a result, the international passenger load factor edged 0.2 percentage points lower to average 82.2% in…
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Special Representative Penny Pritzker traveled to Ukraine on July 29 to meet senior Ukrainian officials to discuss ways to further increase private sector investment and jumpstart Ukraine’s economy. While in Ukraine, she met with Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, First Deputy Prime Minister Svyrydenko, Minister of Digital Transformation Fedorov, Minister of Strategic Industries Oleksandr Kamyshin, and other government officials. In Kyiv, Special Representative Pritzker was joined by several CEOs of U.S. private companies supportive of Ukraine’s economic recovery. Source_link
Returnees have headed for several locations in the city, including central and eastern neighbourhoods as well as the adjacent area of Bani Suhaila. Medical evacuations Separately, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that 85 sick and severely injured patients from Gaza were evacuated to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday. The patients, 35 of them children, were accompanied by more than 60 caregivers and family members. They were transferred from Gaza via the Kerem Shalom crossing. This marked the largest medical evacuation outside Gaza since October, WHO said, and it was done in partnership with the Emirati…
When you think about housework, you likely think of actions: scrubbing the dishes, running errands, chopping vegetables for dinner. And it’s not news to say that mothers often shoulder the burden for most of those activities. But there’s an invisible dimension of household labor that unfolds behind the scenes: the cognitive effort that goes into anticipating needs, planning, organizing and delegating household tasks. In other words, someone has to remember to replace the dish soap and select which vegetables to chop. Our new research found that this cognitive dimension of housework, often called the “mental load,” is divided even more…
Palestinian militant group Hamas says its top political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, has been killed in his home in Tehran. It blames Israel for the attack, saying it was “a Zionist airstrike on his residence in Tehran after he participated in the inauguration of Iran’s new president”. Iran has not yet given any details on how Haniyeh was killed, but says it is under investigation. With the war in Gaza showing no sign of abating and the whole Middle East on a knife’s edge, the killing raises questions about whether it may spark a wider regional war. Who is Ismail Haniyeh?…
Published: Wed 31 Jul 2024, 8:41 AM Last updated: Wed 31 Jul 2024, 8:58 AM James Cox There were tears of joy on the swimming podium last night, as Daniel Wiffen became the first Irish man to win a medal in the pool. He set a new Olympic record to win gold in the men’s 800-metre freestyle. That was just Ireland’s 12th ever Olympic gold medal. Wiffen said: “I don’t think a lot of people actually believed me that I was going to do it tonight but yeah it was incredible. I’ve done it – that’s all I want to…
US Department of Labor probe, litigation leads to one of nation’s largest FLSA judgmentsPITTSBURGH – In one of the nation’s largest wage recovery judgments, a Pennsylvania federal court has awarded $35.8 million in overtime back wages and liquidated damages to 6,000 current and former workers employed by the operators of 15 residential skilled nursing, rehabilitation and assisted living facilities in western Pennsylvania that willfully denied them overtime pay.After a 13-day bench trial, the July 22, 2024, judgment in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania is the department’s latest step to recoup wages and damages, jointly and…
Israel, which has in recent years carried out a number of high-profile assassinations in Iran and elsewhere, has not yet commented on Haniyeh’s killing. In 2004, Israel carried out an airstrike in Gaza killing Hamas’ then-leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi. The same year, it assassinated one of the militant group’s founders, Ahmed Yassin, in Gaza City. Haniyeh’s alleged assassination came only hours after the Israel Defense Forces claimed they killed senior Hezbollah commander Fouad Shukur in an airstrike on the Lebanese capital of Beirut on Tuesday. The IDF said it had targeted the commander responsible for a rocket attack in the Israeli-occupied…
The year 2025 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of quantum mechanics. In the century since the field’s inception, scientists and engineers have used quantum mechanics to create technologies such as lasers, MRI scanners and computer chips. Today, researchers are looking toward building quantum computers and ways to securely transfer information using an entirely new sister field called quantum information science. But despite creating all these breakthrough technologies, physicists and philosophers who study quantum mechanics still haven’t come up with the answers to some big questions raised by the field’s founders. Given recent developments in quantum information science, researchers…
Government backs industry with £1.5 billion budget for next renewable energy auction, boosting energy security Increase of over 50 per cent on previous budget with biggest boost for offshore wind New milestone in mission for clean, cheap energy for families and businesses Renewable industry to bid for record breaking funding as the Energy Secretary unveils the largest-ever budget for delivering new homegrown clean energy projects in the UK – boosting energy security, securing cheap power for families, and unlocking economic growth and jobs for the country. Ed Miliband today (Wednesday 31 July) announced the budget for this year’s renewable energy…