SYDNEY — Paramedics in the south-eastern Australian state of New South Wales will continue industrial action over pay and work conditions despite facing the consequences of unauthorized strikes last week. On June 10, paramedics across the state went on strike over an “insulting” pay rise offer made by the state government, attending life-threatening jobs but eschewing less severe incidents. More than 300 nurses and midwives also undertook a separate strike, walking off the job in Lismore, Campbelltown, and Liverpool. The 1.4 percent pay increase, rejected by the union in May, is below inflation, which New South Wales Treasury forecasts at 2.2…
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NEW DELHI — U.S. microblogging site Twitter India’s Managing Director Manish Maheshwari was interrogated by a senior-level team from the Delhi Police’s Special Cell on May 31, amid escalating tensions between the government and the company. Maheshwari was questioned by the police in India’s tech hub Bengaluru over Twitter tagging a tweet by a member of the Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party as ‘manipulated media’ in May. The Delhi police searched Twitter India offices on May 24 to serve a notice over the issue but found it shut due to the pandemic. Twitter later said it was concerned over the use…
Microsoft Corporation, the world’s largest software company, named Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Satya Nadella as the new chairman on June 16, succeeding John Thompson. Microsoft said the independent directors of the board unanimously elected Indian-American Nadella to the role. It is the first time in more than two decades that Microsoft’s chairman will also be its CEO after the software giant’s co-founder Bill Gates originally stepped down as CEO in 2000. Thompson, who took over as chairman from Bill Gates in 2014, was elected as the lead independent director, a role he previously held from 2012 to 2014, the company…
Adults who skip breakfast run the risk of losing out on the crucial nutrients found abundantly in the foods that make up morning meals. A study by Ohio State University published online in the journal “Proceedings of the Nutrition Society” found that missing out on the calcium in milk, vitamin C in fruit, and the fiber, vitamins, and minerals found in fortified cereals left adults deficient in those nutrients for the entire day. The study surveyed more than 30,000 American adults. “What we’re seeing is that if you don’t eat the foods that commonly consumed at breakfast, you have a…
Eating more fish, such as mackerel and salmon, could help prevent cancer, according to a study by scientists in Belgium. It found fatty omega-3 acids can kill tumor cells in days. One of the acids that makes up omega-3, Docosahexaenoic (DHA), which is “crucial to brain function, vision and the regulation of inflammatory phenomena,” can slow the development of tumors, the scientists said. Describing the find as a “major advance” in the field, the team said the effort began in 2016 when Olivier Feron, professor at the Institute of Experimental and Clinical Research at the University of Louvain, found “cells…
After languishing for months in Congress, lawmakers have passed the Juneteenth National Independence Act to officially establish a federal holiday on June 19, the day which in 1865 slavery finally ended as Union soldiers stormed into Texas. After unanimously passing the Senate on Tuesday, bill passed the House by a 415-14 vote on Wednesday, and is now headed for President Joseph R. Biden Jr to sign. (All the nay votes were by Republicans.) The federal holiday follows recognition from 49 states and the District of Columbia of June 19 as an official holiday or remembrance. South Dakota remains the lone…
In stark contrast to the three weeks he took to call Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s then-prime minister, after taking power, U.S. President Joseph R. Biden Jr. last weekend tried to spark a friendlier relationship with Naftali Bennett, the country’s incoming leader, with his “warm congratulations” hours after he ousted Netanyahu. Given the close relationship between former President Donald J. Trump and Netanyahu, the longest-serving Israeli leader, the outreach from the White House sparked hopes of a freeze on the creeping partisanship of America’s perspectives on Israel. (Netanyahu also spent part of his childhood in Philadelphia.) The value of the leadership was…
JEREZ DE LA FRONTERA, España — Hace dos años, Thierno Barro Diong, de Senegal, se puso en contacto con un amigo que ya estaba en Marruecos, preparado para cruzar la frontera hacia España, y se animó a seguirlo. “Éramos 70 personas en el barco, [nos tomó] nueve horas para llegar a Málaga; un barco de salvamento nos recogió”, dijo. Tras arriesgar su vida a los 17 años, fue internado en un centro de menores. Sin embargo, cuando cumplió 18, se vio en la calle. “Yo fui con un senegalés andando en la calle y entonces, hablando con él, me dice, ‘vale,…
NAIROBI, Kenya — Julius Kariuki, 31, was hoping for quick returns when he invested Sh300,000 ($2,784) in Amazon Web Worker Africa, an e-commerce app, in May 2021. But it was not to be, as the app was suddenly removed from Google Play Store without communication, leaving many of its users in limbo. “This one caught me unawares,” he told Zenger News. “I was a little late to invest, and within a week of doing so, the app was gone. Normally these apps stay for a month or two before they disappear. But this one did not stay for long. They came,…
NAKURU, Kenya — When Grace Wanjohi, 47, visited a friend at Kinoo estate, on the outskirts of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, in September 2012, she never imagined it would be the genesis of an online platform that would transform the fight against crime in the country. During the visit, a group of robbers armed with crude weapons broke into her friend’s house in the middle of the night. “We heard noises from outside, and on peeping outside, we saw a group of men shouting at my friend to open the windows,” she told Zenger News from her office in Nakuru city, 86…