Junior Doctors In England Plan 9 Days Strike Over Wage Dispute With Govt
Junior doctors in England will strike for nine days over Christmas and New Year in an ongoing row over pay. The British Medical Association (BMA) said the government had failed to make a credible offer to end the long-running wage dispute. The BMA's junior doctors committee unanimously voted for further walkouts in December and January, in what will be the longest...
UK Introduces Stricter Visa Measures To Reduce Migration
The UK has announced it would raise the minimum salary threshold for a skilled worker visa and prevent overseas health and social care staff from bringing family dependents to Britain. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s office trumpeted the proposals as “the biggest clampdown on legal migration ever”. But critics said it would damage the state-run National Health Service (NHS), which faces staff...
Iran Blames Israel For Renewed Fight With Hamas
Iran on Friday blamed Israel and the United States for a resumption of fighting in the Gaza Strip. “After killing more than 15,000 Palestinians, the Zionist vampires have started a new round of killing under the continued support of the American government,” Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani said in a post on X, formerly Twitter. Deadly fighting restarted in Gaza...
2023 Set To Be Hottest Year Ever — UN
This year is set to be the hottest ever recorded, the UN said Thursday, demanding urgent action to rein in global warming and stem the havoc following in its wake. The UN’s World Meteorological Organisation warned that 2023 had shattered a whole host of climate records, with extreme weather leaving “a trail of devastation and despair”. “It’s a deafening cacophony of...
More Men Commit Suicide In Africa, CDC Reports
The Advisor, Non-communicable Diseases, Injuries and Mental Health for AfricaCDC, Dr Naeem Dalal, has stressed the need to stop cultural stereotypes that prevent African men from seeking emotional and mental wellness help. Dalal spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lusaka, Zambia, on the sideline of a parallel session on Youth Mental Health in Africa, at the International Conference...
Sierra Leone Jailbreak: Over 1,800 Prisoners Escape, Police Places Bounty On Inmates
Officials of the Sierra Leone government have disclosed that nearly 2,000 inmates escaped during Sunday’s attack on a military barracks, a prison, and other locations in the country. The Acting Director-General of the Sierra Leone Correctional Service, Colonel Shek Suleiman Masakui, said the attack lasted two hours. According to a situation report that prison officials shared with Reuters on Monday, some...
Winter Storm Shuts Out Power Across Ukraine
A storm has left more than two thousand towns and villages in war-torn Ukraine without power Monday, the government said, piling pressure on the country’s fragile power grid. The energy infrastructure has been targeted systematically by Russian forces and Kyiv has warned that Moscow is preparing fresh strikes on key facilities this winter. “In total, 2,019 settlements in 16 regions are...
Hamas Fighter Free More Hostages After Delays
Hamas fighters were set Sunday to release a third group of Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, a day after freeing captives including a young woman snatched from a desert rave. In a sign of the fragility of the exchanges, the latest swap Saturday was delayed for hours after Hamas accused Israel of breaching its side of the deal...
Microsoft to hire OpenAI’s Sam Altman – CEO
Microsoft’s Chief Executive Officer, Satya Nadella, on Monday announced the hiring of OpenAI’s Sam Altman and other members of his team, days after the co-founder of the venture behind ChatGPT was fired. “The mission continues,” Altman, who rose to fame with the launch of the artificial intelligence chatbot last year, posted on X, formerly Twitter. Nadella wrote on X that Altman “will...
Gaza Communications Down As Israel Searches Main Hospital
Israeli troops carried out building-by-building searches at Gaza’s main hospital as a new communications blackout in the territory on Friday compounded fears for Palestinian civilians trapped inside the facility. Al-Shifa hospital has become a focal point for Israeli operations in northern Gaza since soldiers raided the complex on Wednesday, hunting for a command centre they say militant group Hamas operates...
