On Thursday, US President-elect Donald Trump nominated vaccine sceptic Robert F Kennedy Jr to head up the country’s top health agency, the Department of Health and Human Services. “I am thrilled to announce Robert F Kennedy Jr as the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services [HHS],” Trump wrote…
The United Kingdom will study whether the use of weight loss drugs could get people back to work. UK Health Minister Wes Streeting announced last month that US drug manufacturer Eli Lilly will begin a five-year trial in Greater Manchester to test if the company’s weight loss drug could curb…
Kolkata, India – For the past several years, Manpreet Singh has been dreaming of going abroad for higher studies. The 22-year-old Sikh, a resident of Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh state, chose Canada as his destination as that is where many of the Sikh diaspora is settled. But the current diplomatic…
Medan, Indonesia – Halimah Nasution used to feel as if she had it all. For years, she and her husband Agus Saputra made a good living renting out supplies for weddings, graduations and birthdays. Even after splitting their earnings among several of their siblings, the couple in Indonesia’s North Sumatra…
US President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team is planning to kill a $7,500 consumer tax credit for electric-vehicle purchases as part of broader tax-reform legislation, Reuters news agency has reported, citing two sources with direct knowledge of the matter. Ending the tax credit could have grave implications for an already stalling…
With the lockouts, $930m of goods are being affected daily, affecting supply chains and local economy, the government says. Canada’s labour minister is intervening to end the lockouts of workers at the country’s two biggest ports. Minister of Labour Steven Mackinnon said on Tuesday that the negotiations had reached an…
In a November 10 appearance on CNN’s State of the Union, United States Senator for Vermont Bernie Sanders dismissed a question from host Dana Bash about whether Democrats’ poor showing in the 2024 election came down to messaging over policy. “It’s not messaging, Dana,” Sanders said. He said the economy…
Alice Springs, Australia – For Ben Hall, the CEO of tour bus operator AAT Kings, business lately has been tough. He says visitors are not booking tours to Uluru, a huge sandstone monolith that is the most famous attraction in Australia’s vast Northern Territory, in the numbers they used to….
The Tesla CEO, Trump’s most influential campaign backer, has turned into a key power broker in presidential transition. Tech billionaire Elon Musk is diving even deeper into the world of politics after Donald Trump’s election win, cosying up to the president-elect and offering him input on key administration hires, according…
Officials say efforts to assess damage are under way after 6.8-magnitude earthquake hits eastern Cuba. A powerful earthquake has hit eastern Cuba, adding more problems to a country still reeling from a series of recent storms and blackouts. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported on Sunday that a magnitude…
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