Taoiseach Simon Harris has said he will seek early engagement with the next British government to forge stronger relationships between the administrations on both islands.Mr Harris told the Fine Gael parliamentary party meeting that the UK election on Thursday provided an “opportunity and major moment” to reset relations with our nearest neighbour.The Taoiseach told TDs and Senators that he was not prejudging the outcome but said it was timely to seek “early engagement to discuss close, good relationships, between Ireland and the UK, in a post-Brexit environment.”It is widely expected that the Labour Party under leader Keir Starmer will win…
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WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the award of more than $56 million in grants to help reduce recidivism and assist people in re-entering their communities after being incarcerated.The award of Pathway Home 5 grant funding will build on the findings of the Linking Employment Activities Pre-release pilots and implementation study, which highlighted the value of close partnerships between jails and workforce system partners to achieve participant success. Authorized by the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, the grants provide funding for justice-involved people to complete training for skills most valued by local employers. Today’s awards follow the department’s Feb. 8, 2024,…
According to the OSEPE airport employees union, Avgenakis also threatened to have the employee “transferred,” and when other workers tried to calm him down reportedly shouted “don’t touch me, I have immunity!” The union also said the employees had paged Avgenakis by name three times before the gate closed. Opposition parties demanded he be expelled from the parliament. Avgenakis apologized and sought to downplay his behavior, calling it a “verbal incident with the company employee, as he did not allow me to board, claiming that boarding had been completed, while I could see with my own eyes that passengers were…
If space systems such as GPS were hacked and knocked offline, much of the world would instantly be returned to the communications and navigation technologies of the 1950s. Yet space cybersecurity is largely invisible to the public at a time of heightened geopolitical tensions. Cyberattacks on satellites have occurred since the 1980s, but the global wake-up alarm went off only a couple of years ago. An hour before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, its government operatives hacked Viasat’s satellite-internet services to cut off communications and create confusion in Ukraine. I study ethics and emerging technologies and serve…
The first Inequality Marker results show that, in 2023, 59% of all new projects funded from the International Partnerships budget had a substantial focus on reducing inequality. Looking at the results based on income categories, 77% of new projects in low-income countries had a substantial focus on reducing inequality, with inequality reduction being either a significant or the main objective. The percentage was 70% in lower-middle income countries and 69% in upper-middle income countries.From a regional perspective, 76% of new projects in sub-Saharan Africa substantially contributed to inequality reduction. In Latin America and the Caribbean, 61% of projects targeted inequality reduction…
Cairo, 2 July 2024 – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) have signed a Statement of Partnership to strengthen strategic cooperation between the two organizations on transnational organized crime related to migration. The partnership aims to facilitate collective efforts and improve the efficiency of programmes in the priority areas of human trafficking, migrant smuggling, border management and border security, terrorism prevention, as well as the collection, analysis and use of data to better serve migrants, Member States and other partners. “With 2023 as the deadliest year on record for migrants,…
Whether you’re left, right or ambidextrous, “handedness” is part of our identity. But a lot of people don’t realise that we have other biases too and they are not unique to humans. My colleagues and I have published a new study that shows aligning our biases in the same way as other people may have social benefits. Across different cultures, human populations have high levels of right-handedness (around 90%). We also have a strong population bias in how we recognise faces and their emotions. A significant majority of the population are faster and more accurate at recognising identities and emotions…
A large clinical trial in South Africa and Uganda has shown that a twice-yearly injection of a new pre-exposure prophylaxis drug gives young women total protection from HIV infection. The trial tested whether the six-month injection of lenacapavir would provide better protection against HIV infection than two other drugs, both daily pills. All three medications are pre-exposure prophylaxis (or PrEP) drugs. Physician-scientist Linda-Gail Bekker, principal investigator for the South African part of the study, tells Nadine Dreyer what makes this breakthough so significant and what to expect next. Tell us about the trial and what it set out to achieve…
STEPHEN Smyth has been named by Head Coach Willie Faloon in the starting XV for Ireland Men’s U20s second World Rugby U20 Championship Pool B clash against Georgia in Stellenbosch (Kick-off 1pm Irish time, live on RugbyPass TV). Stephen Smyth has been named in the Ireland team for the game against Georgia in the World Rugby U20 Championship in South AfricaPhoto: ©INPHO/Ben Brady Smyth came off the bench to play a little under 20 minutes as Ireland opened their campaign with a big win over Italy in Cape Town on Saturday and will look to help make it two from two when…
For this analysis, we grouped people into two political categories: those who support the governing political party (or parties) in their country, and those who do not. These categories were coded based on the party or parties in power at the time the survey was fielded and on respondents’ answers to a question asking which political party, if any, they identify with in their country. In countries where multiple political parties govern in coalition (as is the case in many European countries), survey respondents who indicate support for any party in the coalition were grouped together. In Germany, for example,…