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[ad_1] More than a dozen workplace safety training centres across the United States could be forced to close by the end of the summer, as sweeping job cuts at a key federal health agency take effect under the Trump administration’s cost-cutting drive.The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), which supports training and research for some of the country’s most hazardous jobs, has lost nearly 90% of its workforce. Out of around 1,000 employees, only about 125 were left after job cuts on April 1, according to union data seen by Reuters.Although 300 employees were rehired in May, the team managing the 12 Centres for Agricultural Safety and Health, which support fishing, farming, and logging workers, was not part of this. Because of this, several centres are getting ready to close as their funding runs out.Training programmes run by […]

[ad_1] Two teenagers have been found shot dead in a remote part of the Tonto National Forest in Arizona, just days after their summer holidays began. Police are investigating their deaths as “suspicious”.The bodies of Pandora Kjolsrud, 18, and Evan Clark, 17, were discovered on the morning of May 27, near Mount Ord, a spot the two friends often watched sunsets at. They had both suffered fatal gunshot wounds, the Maricopa county sheriff’s office said, quoted by the New York Post.“At this time, the circumstances surrounding their deaths are being treated as suspicious,” said Sgt Joaquin Enriquez, speaking to Fox 10 Phoenix.The Maricopa county medical examiner has since confirmed both deaths as homicides, with the date of death listed as 26 May.Kjolsrud and Clark were students at Arcadia High School in Phoenix, around 64 miles southwest of the national forest. […]

[ad_1] Bangladesh unveiled new currency designs, marking a significant change on Sunday. The notes no longer feature the image of its first president, who was also the father of exiled former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, ousted from power last year.The nation is home to around 170 million people and is presently under caretaker administration following Hasina's departure, coinciding with the commencement of her trial on Sunday for allegedly suppressing the August 2024 uprising against her leadership.Previously, all currency notes displayed the image of her father, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who governed Bangladesh from its independence from Pakistan in 1971 until his assassination, along with most family members, during a military takeover in 1975."Under the new series and design, the notes will not feature any human portraits, but will instead showcase natural landscapes and traditional landmarks," Bangladesh Bank spokesman Arif Hossain Khan […]

[ad_1] Representative image (AI) LONDON: UK government figures Sunday showed that more than 1,100 migrants arrived in the country on Saturday in small boats from France across the English Channel, the highest number recorded on a single day so far this year. The latest Home Office figures show that 1,194 migrants arrived in 18 boats on Saturday in what were settled weather conditions, bringing the provisional annual total so far to 14,811. That's 42% higher than the same point last year, an increase that has piled pressure on the Labour government, which returned to power nearly a year ago, partly on disillusionment with the previous conservative administration's efforts to get a grip on the numbers making the crossing. Having ditched the Conservative government's plan to send migrants who arrived in the UK by unauthorized means to Rwanda, Prime Minister Keir […]

[ad_1] Representative image (AP) At least 12 Ukrainian soldiers are reported dead and over 60 others injured in a Russian missile strike which hit a Ukrainian army training unit on Sunday, according to a statement put out by Ukrainian ground forces in a statement.The strike took place at 12:50pm (local time), said the statement, which stressed that there were no troop formations or large gatherings of personnel at the time. It also noted that an investigative commission had been established to determine the circumstances surrounding the attack that resulted in significant personnel losses.This training unit is located within the 1000 km active front line between Moscow and Kyiv, and falls in the range of Russian reconnaissance and drone strike capabilities. Ukrainian forces are facing a manpower crunch and are taking additional measures to prevent large gatherings, as Russian drones densely […]

[ad_1] Intimate videos of journalist Glenn Greenwald were leaked online Friday, quickly sparking widespread reaction across social media. In a statement posted on X, Greenwald confirmed he appears in the footage and said it was released “without my knowledge or consent,” calling the leak “maliciously political.” “As for the content of the videos: I have no embarrassment or regret about them,” the 58-year-old journalist wrote. “The videos depict consenting adults engaged in intimate actions in their private lives. They all display fully consensual behavior, harming nobody.”He added: “Obviously it can be uncomfortable and unpleasant when your private behavior is made public against your will — that’s why the behavior is private in the first place — but the only wrongdoing here is the criminal and malicious publication of the videos in an attempt to malign perceived political enemies and advance […]

[ad_1] Firefighters with breathing apparatus and a ladder truck work at the Marienkrankenhaus hospital in Hamburg, Germany (AP) BERELIN: Three patients were killed and many people were injured, one of them critically, in a fire that broke out overnight at a hospital in the German city of Hamburg, authorities said on Sunday.Firefighters were alerted to the blaze at the hospital, the Marienkrankenhaus, shortly after midnight. It broke out in a room in the geriatric ward, on the ground floor of the building, and spread to the facade of the floor above. Smoke spread across the building's four floors.It wasn't immediately clear what caused the fire.The fire department said that three adult patients were killed and more than 30 people injured, the German news agency dpa reported. Of those, one was in life-threatening condition, 18 had serious injuries and 15 were […]

[ad_1] Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi (AP file photo) Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi spoke with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Mariano Grossi early Sunday, amid rising tensions over a confidential UN report that flagged Iran’s growing stockpile of uranium enriched close to weapons-grade levels.In a post on Telegram, Araghchi said he reaffirmed Iran’s “continuous cooperation” with the UN’s nuclear watchdog during the call. He also urged Grossi to ensure the agency is not misused by “certain parties” to pursue “political agendas against the Iranian people.” The IAEA has yet to comment publicly on the phone conversation.The IAEA report, accessed by the Associated Press, expressed “serious concern” over Iran becoming “the only non-nuclear-weapon state to produce such material.” The report disclosed that as of May 17, Iran had stockpiled 408.6 kilograms of uranium enriched up to 60 percent […]

[ad_1] In a notable shift for a country long defined by post-war pacifism, a growing number of young Germans are rethinking careers in the defence sector, driven by the ongoing war in Ukraine and broader global instability.German arms manufacturers, traditionally absent from public recruitment events, participated for the first time in a job fair at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), a sign of changing tides. Students like 25-year-old Mika Scheid, an engineering student at KIT, are leading the shift.The Russian invasion of Ukraine was a “personal turning point,” said Scheid, who joined the armed forces as a reservist and now hopes to work in military equipment manufacturing. “People are beginning to understand that the Bundeswehr (the German armed forces) is now clearly focused on defending the country and Nato,” he said.Despite student protests prompting Rheinmetall to pull out of the […]

[ad_1] Thousands Bulgarians took on the streets of the capital, Sofia, and other major cities on Saturday to protest government plans to adopt the euro and to demand a referendum on the issue (Image credit: AP) Thousands gathered in Bulgaria's capital Sofia and other major cities on Saturday to reject the country's plans to adopt the euro, the latest move by the eastern European country to strengthen its status in the European Union. Critics of the move are demanding that the government hold a referendum over whether the country should abandon the lev and adopt the euro as its currency.It comes months after Bulgaria, along with Romania, were admitted to the Schengen area.Demonstrators in Sofia carried flags of the pro-Russian Vazrazhdane party. A large banner read "The battle for the Bulgarian lev is the last battle for Bulgaria."Civic groups and […]