Majorities in both parties approve of keeping strict economic sanctions on Russia U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken walks down a street in Kyiv during an announced visit to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on May 14, 2024. (Brendan Smialowski/Pool/AFP via Getty Images) Pew Research Center conducted this study to understand Americans’ attitudes toward the war in Ukraine. For this analysis, we surveyed 9,424 adults from July 1-7, 2024. Everyone who took part in this survey is a member of the Center’s American Trends Panel (ATP), a group of people recruited through national, random sampling of residential addresses who…
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LAS VEGAS – El Departamento de Trabajo de EE.UU. ha recuperado $475,385 en salarios no pagados y compensación por daños del dueño de tres restaurantes Juan’s Flaming Fajitas & Cantina en Las Vegas y Henderson que no combinó las horas trabajadas por 32 empleados en más de una ubicación y negó inapropiadamente los salarios por sobretiempo ganados por los trabajadores.La División de Horas y Salarios del departamento determinó que el dueño del restaurante, Juan Vázquez, no pagó a los trabajadores afectados tasas por sobretiempo por las horas trabajadas mas allá de 40 a la semana y eximió erróneamente a otros dos…
The new study has shown that Ustekinumab, an established immunotherapy that has been used to treat psoriasis since 2009, is effective in preserving the body’s ability to produce insulin in type 1 diabetes. The results bring the goal of managing type 1 diabetes without insulin a step closer. The study was funded by a Medical Research Council and National Institute for Health and Care Research partnership. The study by Cardiff University, Kings College London, Swansea University and the University of Calgary, unlocked new insights into identifying the specific immune cells (Th17 cells) that cause type 1 diabetes. It also further…
Former U.S. President Donald Trump called the opening ceremony “a disgrace,” while Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said it was proof that the West “denies the existence of a common culture and a common morality based on it.” Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini called the scene “an insult to billions of Christians around the world.” Church groups also criticized the event. The French Bishops’ Conference said it was a “mockery of Christianity,” while a spokesman for the Russian Orthodox Church called it “cultural suicide.” The Bulgarian Orthodox Church said the event was “embarrassing, seductive and offensive to all Christianity.”…
Automated facial recognition is becoming widespread in Australia. The technology has already been used by retail outlets, sport stadiums and casinos around the country. And in November, the Australian government’s digital identification system will be expanded, after new laws passed parliament earlier in the year. As the technology becomes less expensive and more powerful, it will lend itself to a growing range of applications, such as a proposed age estimation tool. To find out what Australians think about this fast-growing technology, my colleagues and our team conducted a representative national survey of more than 2,000 people. Our results, which we…
Postmasters whose convictions were overturned by the Post Office Offences Act can now access the new Horizon Convictions Redress Scheme. This new redress scheme has been specifically designed for postmasters whose conviction was not already overturned by the courts. Victims will have the choice of taking a fixed settlement of £600,000 or having a fully detailed assessment. Postmasters whose convictions have been overturned by the Post Office Offences Act (including that passed by the Scottish Government) can now apply to a new redress scheme. From today, postmasters are invited to come forward and register for the scheme, known as the…
The charity was set up in 2009 to further public understanding of global warming and its possible consequences and of measures taken or proposed in response to it. The regulator opened a case in May 2022 after complaints were raised about the charity’s output and funding, subsuming further concerns raised in October 2022 into the existing case. The Commission examined a range of concerns, including the educational value of the charity’s research, its funding sources and its relationship with a wholly owned trading subsidiary and with a sister organisation. Overall, the Commission has concluded that the trustees’ response during the…
Fierce fighting broke out in early July in eastern Myanmar, collapsing a ceasefire between the military and a coalition of three ethnic armed groups that had banded together in October last year against the junta. Reports indicate that the ethnic armed groups have captured key regional towns, while the tatmadaw – as the Myanmar armed forces are known – has employed heavy weapons, including artillery and airstrikes. Hundreds of civilians have been killed and tens of thousands more displaced. The situation in Myanmar has deteriorated since the military overthrew the elected government in February 2021 and imprisoned its leaders, including…
Raja Usman and his wife Khair Un Nisa were directors of Umbrella Care Ltd, a Derby-based company which provided workers to the care sector Investigations revealed the company under-declared more than £30 million in tax to HM Revenue and Customs between 2017 and 2020 Usman was banned as a company director for 14-and-a-half years this month and Nisa signed an 11-year disqualification undertaking in 2023 Umbrella Care was wound-up in 2020, with liquidators having recovered more than £12 million in assets from the pair since then The directors of a company supplying NHS workers to the care sector have…
“We are only halfway through the monsoon season, yet the rainfall, damage and destruction have been devastating,” Sanjay Wijesekera, UNICEF Regional Director for South Asia, said in a news release. In Nepal, 109 people, including children, have died due to floods and landslides this monsoon season. This includes 65 people who were on two buses pushed into a swollen river by landslides in July. Similarly, in Afghanistan, flash floods last week swept away several hundred homes, claiming at least 58 lives and leaving hundreds of families homeless, further exacerbating existing vulnerabilities. Climate crisis impacts “These erratic weather events, worsened…