“The trajectory of the development in Yemen has since the beginning of the year moved in the wrong direction and if left unaddressed could reach a tipping point,” he said. Yemeni Government forces backed by a Saudi-led coalition have been battling with Houthi rebels, also known as Ansar Allah, since 2014. The Houthis also began attacking commercial ships in the Red Sea – a crucial route for global trade – following the eruption of war in Gaza last October. Regional dimension increasing Mr. Grundberg said the regional dimension of the Yemen conflict “is getting more and more pronounced”, and the “escalatory trajectory reached a new and dangerous level last week”. He was briefing a…
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Today we mark sixteen years since Russia invaded the sovereign nation of Georgia and remember those killed, injured, or displaced by Russia’s military campaign and illegal occupation. To this day, Russia continues to occupy 20 percent of Georgia’s territory and impose its will on the people there, including by claiming the transfer of strategically important lands in Abkhazia to Russia and taking steps to establish a permanent naval base in Ochamchire. The United States remains steadfast in support of Georgia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity within its internationally recognized borders. We call on Russia to fulfill its commitments and obligations under the 2008…
WASHINGTON – The Department of Labor today announced its Wage and Hour Division will offer contracting agencies, contractors, unions, workers and other stakeholders an opportunity to attend an online seminar on Aug. 29 on requirements for paying prevailing wages on federally funded construction and service contracts.Part of the division’s continuing effort to increase awareness and improve compliance, the day-long seminar will offer sessions on the labor standards protections in the Davis-Bacon Act and the Service Contract Act – including how the department sets and administers prevailing wages – and other topics. “Prevailing wage laws empower workers by ensuring that federally funded construction and service jobs…
The following is the text of a joint statement by the U.S. Department of State and the Kingdom of Sweden Ministry for Foreign Affairs. The United States of America and the Kingdom of Sweden, Understand wireless communications play a crucial role in our societies and these networks have become a core part of our critical infrastructure; Acknowledge requirements for wireless technologies are steadily increasing, highlighting the technical and regulatory requirements for advanced wireless deployments, and the need for continuous advancement; Underline the substantial potential for collaboration between our respective governments, academia, private sector, and innovation ecosystems in this field; Recall…
Links between Irish anti-immigrant groups and foreign organisations with similar aims are now a cause for grave concern.As reported here yesterday, Irish organisations are now linked to groups such as the Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM), which has been formally declared a terrorist organisation by the US State Department.The fear is that links with such groups in the US, Britain, and Europe will facilitate the growth of the far right in Ireland through sharing information and funding, leading to more confrontations and more violence.The ideological inconsistency in Irish groups attacking people from another country while utilising the money and expertise of…
PHILADELPHIA – The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a federal consent judgment requiring a Philadelphia-based home care services provider to pay 66 home health aides $129,697 in back wages and damages after investigations and litigation confirmed the employer willfully denied them overtime pay. The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania entered the judgment on July 10, 2024, and directed Blue Ridge Home Care Inc. to pay back wages and liquidated damages to the affected employees, who provide home care as assigned by the company’s Philadelphia and Dover, Delaware, locations. The court also required Blue Ridge to pay $49,434…
Grilled on his comments by LBC Tuesday, Farage pointed the finger at the police — who in the U.K. do not routinely name suspects under the age of 18. “What happened in Southport would not have been of the same magnitude had the truth been told and told very, very quickly,” the leading Brexiteer argued. “Had those questions been answered, far from stoking riots, it would have actually calmed them down considerably.” The mass stabbing in Southport has sparked days of violence across the U.K., with hundreds arrested. Hotels housing asylum seekers and mosques are among the locations targeted. `Speaking…
On Monday a US federal judge ruled Google has violated antitrust laws, saying the organisation is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly. Google disputes the ruling. Its president of global affairs, Kent Walker, said “this decision recognises that Google offers the best search engine, but concludes that we shouldn’t be allowed to make it easily available”. Nevertheless, the landmark decision has shaken the foundation of Google’s business, its search engine. For well over a decade, Google has been the dominant search engine in the market. The tech giant reportedly controls around 90% of the…
The Prime Minister has taken immediate action following the far-right thuggery we have seen take place after the devastating events in Southport last week. He has promised that those taking part in this disorder – whether it be directly or online – will face the full force of the law. The police will continue to make arrests, individuals will be held on remand, and charges and convictions will follow. Ramp up criminal justice Police chiefs have made clear that public order reserves will be on standby in strategic locations throughout the week, with thousands of extra officers available for rapid deployment wherever and whenever disorder arises.…
The UN health agency is also concerned that more severe variants of the coronavirus may soon be on the horizon. “COVID-19 is still very much with us,” and circulating in all countries, Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove of WHO told journalists in Geneva. Testing positive “Data from our sentinel-based surveillance system across 84 countries reports that the percent of positive tests for SARS-CoV-2 has been rising over several weeks,” she said. “Overall, test positivity is above 10 per cent, but this fluctuates per region. In Europe, percent positivity is above 20 per cent,” she added. New waves of infection have been registered in the…