Ireland is set to ban protesters from wearing balaclavas after rioters clashed with police at anti-immigration demonstrations.The new ban will prohibit wearing masks at protests when the intent of the wearing the face covering is to ‘intimidate’ or prevent police from identifying an individual committing a crime, a spokesman for the Justice Minister Helen McEntee told the Irish Independent.Under the new legislation face coverings can be worn for medical reasons or during cold weather, the newspaper reported.It comes after balaclava-wearing protesters threw projectiles at Irish police last month during demonstrations at a proposed asylum site in Coolock, Dublin.Rioters also travelled from Coolock…
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PAYETTE, ID – The U.S. Department of Labor recovered $268,417 in back wages and liquidated damages for 76 workers after finding the employer housed them in substandard conditions and wrongly exempted many of them from overtime in violation of federal regulations. An investigation by the department’s Wage and Hour Division found Ontario Partners LLC had temporary H-2A agricultural workers processing onions from a farm not on their program application and did not pay the workers time-and-one-half rates for hours over 40 in a workweek. The Fair Labor Standards Act only allows employers to use its overtime exemption for employees who only process the employer’s own…
“We recall that targeting critical life-saving infrastructure constitutes a war crime and urge all parties to take all feasible precautions to avoid harm to civilians, humanitarian workers, and critical civilian infrastructure,” his statement continued. Borrell’s statement came hours after Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich suggested letting Gazan civilians die of starvation was “justified and moral” in response to Hamas keeping Israeli hostages. “We are bringing in aid because there is no choice,” he said Monday at a conference in the town of Yad Binyamin, according to Israeli media. “Nobody will let us cause 2 million civilians to die of hunger…
Dr Peace has a strong background in international technology and has held research leadership roles in industry. This includes roles at Unilever and most recently as Chief Research and Development and Quality Officer at Nomad Foods. She has led innovation programmes across many different contexts and has a background in polymer chemistry. The current Innovate UK CEO, Indro Mukerjee, steps down at the end of September this year after three-and-a-half years in the role. UK Research and Innovation Chief Executive Professor Dame Ottoline Leyser said: Indro has been a transformational leader of Innovate UK. His passion and commitment to the…
The Apple Vision Pro is the newest tool for Australians to access three-dimensional, immersive online environments, also known as the metaverse. Released in Australia earlier this month, it allows users to take a (virtual) walk in the savanna from their living room, watch sports matches in an immersive environment, or even buy a house after completing a virtual inspection. But these new online environments also have the potential to enable new crimes. Metacrimes are those crimes occurring in the metaverse. They challenge our definitions of crimes in the digital realm, because they do not fit into existing frameworks of reporting…
States should be more aware of how cities and local governments can help them carry out their diplomatic and scientific strategies. In major global discussions, city-level governments are often the ones who can transform commitments into concrete action. A good example is the actions taken by the City of Montréal to support biodiversity at the recent COP15 conference, as well as Mayor Valérie Plante’s call to other cities around the world to commit to the Montréal Pledge. The aim is for cities to implement 15 tangible actions towards pursuing and accelerating their efforts to preserve ecosystems. This type of action…
Introduction A UK-France summit was held in Paris on 10 March 2023. Former Prime Minister Sunak and President Macron agreed a bilateral energy partnership focusing on the transition to a net zero energy system. The partnership included working on hydrogen. Seizing this opportunity and aligning this with our research priorities, SIN France brought the UK’s 2 national hydrogen research hubs, UK HyRES and UK HiACT, on board to organise a brokerage event between the hubs and their equivalent in France. Reaching out to the French national hydrogen research network (FRH2), which boasts an extensive ecosystem of over 300 researchers and…
With each Olympic Games athletes are expected to break new records. Sport science experts have been speculating for years whether we are reaching the limits of human ability. But they may be overlooking the fields where there’s untapped potential: women’s sports. The rates of improvements in female athletic performance appear to be exceeding that of their male counterparts. For example, between 1985-2004 the records of female marathon runners improved at a rate three times greater than men’s. This has led many people to question whether, despite a 10-12% performance gap in all distance sports, women may surpass men at endurance…
Recently returned from the Gaza Strip, Sigrid Kaag, the UN Senior Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordinator for Gaza was speaking to journalists at UN Headquarters in New York via video link from Jordan (► play video). She said that UN teams and partners are working to address the severe shortages of waste management and sanitation facilities, amid the risk of outbreaks of communicable diseases. While in Gaza, she also visited a mobile maternity ward, run by the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) and the non-profit International Medical Corps. “There are truly brave women doctors, nurses, working to ensure safe deliveries as well…
According to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), five gathering sites and reception centres in the provincial capital Kassala town and Gharb Kassala are among those impacted. More than 10,000 IDPs who fled fighting in neighbouring Sennar state have been affected. Flooding has also been reported in Aj Jazirah, East Darfur and North Kordofan provinces, affecting about 280 households. Since the outbreak of war between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces in April last year, thousands of civilians have been killed, and more than 10 million have been driven from their homes,…