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…
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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…
The attacks occurred in the city’s Novobovarskyi district late on Thursday. At least three people were killed and a further 16 injured, according to media reports. The repeated missile strikes caused significant damage to residential buildings. They also affected rescue workers rushing to the scene. In a statement issued on Friday, UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Ukraine, Denise Brown extended her deepest condolences “to the families impacted by the non-stop attacks by the Russian Federation’s Armed Forces.” Humanitarian response hampered Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city, has come under relentless shelling in recent weeks. UN agencies have been assisting in evacuating people…
Garoua, July 22 to 26, 2024 – The RIBADOU hotel hosted a series of decisive workshops as part of the PBF GYPI DDR Gender Project titled “Women for Inclusive Reintegration in Cameroon”. These workshops were designed to strengthen the engagement of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in general, and Women’s Organizations (WOs) in particular, in the national Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) process, as well as to support the National Committee for Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (CNDDR) in its collaborative approach with civil society. The main objective of the workshops was to develop and validate a policy for engaging women’s organizations…
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ireland’s unemployment rate hit its highest rate in two-and-a-half years in July, rising to 4.7% from an upwardly revised 4.5% a month earlier, Central Statistics Office data showed on Tuesday. Data for March to May that had previously put the jobless rate near a record low in each month at 4% were also revised higher, meaning unemployment has now risen steadily for five successive months from 4.1% in February. (Reporting by Padraic Halpin; Editing by Alex Richardson) Source link