Declining Birth Rate Threatens Japanese Society’s Ability to Function, Kishida Warns
Read More Japan will cease to function as a society if its birth rate continues to decline, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Monday, urging his government to create a “children-first economic society”. “Japan is at a critical point of whether we can continue to function as a society. Focusing on policies regarding children and […]
Human Trafficking, Modern Slavery; A Booming Global Business
Read MoreUNICEF reports “human trafficking, modern slavery” is the second largest criminal industry in the world, raking in over $32 billion a year. Hundreds of thousands are coming through the open U.S.-Mexico border. Children are abandoned, used as drug mules, and trafficked. In China, religious minorities are jailed and tortured, used as forced labor, and […]
UK government borrowing at record December high due to energy support and debt interest – business live
Read More Samuel Tombs, chief UK economist Pantheon Macroeconomics, has crunched the numbers. Turning to the details of December’s data, interest payments leapt to ?17.3bn, from ?8.7bn a year ago, due to the big month-to-month jump in the RPI [retail prices index] two months earlier, which primarily reflected October’s increase in consumer energy prices. Note […]
Gavin Newsom clings to TikTok account after most states, Congress ban Chinese-owned app
Post Content California Gov. Gavin Newsom is still clinging to his TikTok account as a growing number of red and blue states across the country are at least partially banning the app. Congress prohibited TikTok’s use on federal government devices in the omnibus bill President Biden signed into law weeks ago due to security concerns […]
Foggia, maltrattamenti e abusi sessuali sui pazienti psichiatrici: 15 arresti tra infermieri e operatori sanitari del Don Uva
Read More Con le accuse di maltrattamenti e abusi sessuali nei confronti di 25 pazienti psichiatrici ricoverati nella struttura socio sanitaria Don Uva di Foggia ,15 tra operatori sanitari, infermieri e ausiliari sono stati arrestati e altrettanti sono stati raggiunti da misure cautelari (obbligo di dimora e divieto di avvicinamento alle vittime). L’indagine, coordinata dalla […]
World Economic Forum participants called on to demand higher taxes on the super-rich
Read More The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, has always been more than a little problematic. But in recent years, the annual gathering of the rich and powerful has become an increasingly wasteful exercise in vanity. What is the point of all those private jets, luxury hotels and clinking champagne glasses […]
Digital scan unwraps secrets of mummy from 2,300 years ago
Read More A new digital scan has revealed intimate details about a teenage boy who was mummified about 2,300 years ago. A team of scientists led by Sahar Saleem, a professor of radiology at the faculty of medicine at Cairo University, concluded that the boy and his family were rich and of high social status […]
Russia-Ukraine war live: Zelenskiy flags more changes in corruption purge; German defence group offers to send tanks if needed
Read More Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the war in Ukraine. My name is Helen Sullivan and I’ll be bringing you the latest for the next while. Our top story this morning: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said personnel changes were being carried out at senior and lower levels, following the most high-profile […]
Former top aide to El Chapo known as ‘The Engineer’ pleads guilty to drug charges
A former senior lieutenant to drug kingpin Joaqu?n “El Chapo” Guzman pleaded guilty to trafficking more than 150 kilograms of cocaine and more than 30 kilograms of heroin on Friday. Felipe Cabrera Sarabia, 51, faces a minimum of 10 years and up to life in prison when he is sentenced on July 7. Known as […]
Brandon Judd to Newsmax: Biden’s ‘Insane’ Policies Behind Record Border Crossings
National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd told Newsmax that last month’s record count of 251,000 illegal border crossings were the result of “insane” immigration policies from President Joe Biden and his administration.