OTTAWA – Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government plans to transition up to 200,000 temporary residents to permanent residency by the end of 2027, in addition to its annual immigration target. The Canadian government’s immigration levels plan maintained its annual targets for temporary and pe»»»

A benefits fraudster who stole £172,000 of taxpayers' money and tried to cheat Rishi Sunak's Eat Out To Help Out initiative has been jailed for 40 months. Delivery driver Atikur Rahman, 34, was sentenced at Canterbury Crown Court in Kent after pleading guilty to multiple fraud charges over a six-ye»»»

When you take a pill for a stiff, swollen joint, you expect it to do one job: reduce inflammation and help your body recover. Drugs are meant to treat diseases or, at the very least, alleviate their symptoms. But what if these very drugs are making you sicker? Most of us are aware that many medicat»»»

Former St Basil’s Home for the Aged chairman Konstantin Kontis has given evidence at the coronial inquest examining the circumstances surrounding the Fawkner facility’s COVID-19 outbreak in 2020. Mr Kontis appeared before the Coroners Court of Victoria on Friday, August 7, following years of legal »»»

Singapore Singapore Some residents faced long queues, stock shortages and confusion over collection procedures, while others were able to get their N95 masks with little fuss. A long queue to collect N95 masks from a vending machine at Clementi Bus Interchange while a staff member topped up the mac»»»

A former Labour MP and justice minister has been found not guilty of charges around his role in a fraudulent Covid-19 testing company. Shahid Malik, 58, was MP for Dewsbury between 2005 and 2010 and served as a minister in three departments in Gordon Brown’s government. Malik was one of five people»»»

SINGAPORE, Oct 8 — Singapore will incorporate Covid-19 vaccination into the National Childhood Immunisation Schedule (NCIS) and National Adult Immunisation Schedule (NAIS) from October 12, 2026. The Health Ministry and Communicable Disease Agency (CDA), in a joint statement, said Covid-19 vaccinati»»»

A central Ontario public health unit says seniors waiting for a COVID-19 vaccine may have to wait a bit longer due to a delay in getting doses to administer. Lakelands Public Health, which serves areas including the Kawartha Lakes, Peterborough, Haliburton and Hiawatha First Nations, said in an ema»»»

Thirty-one films scheduled to be screened at the International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala (IDSFFK), which begins in Thiruvananthapuram on September 25, are yet to receive screening clearance from the ministry of information and broadcasting (I&B), three days before the festival. »»»

CANBERRA, THURSDAY - Australia is tightening the rules for international student visas as part of a major overhaul of Australia's migration policy. International students are no longer allowed to bring family members to Australia. However, this regulation does not apply to students from countries i»»»

David Cummings (new window) · CBC News Over six years after the COVID-19 pandemic started, the federal government is still trying to track down billions of dollars sent to Canadians who were later found to be ineligible for benefits. According to a report from Maytree, a think-tank and advocacy gro»»»

Kim Sung-soo, a nominee for Supreme Court justice, appears at a confirmation hearing held at the National Assembly on Monday. (Yonhap) The National Assembly's "superweek" of seven Cabinet confirmation hearings kicked off Monday, with the main opposition People Power Party vowing to push out embattl»»»

Colombo [Sri Lanka], September 9 (ANI): Sri Lanka on Wednesday described India’s continued support for capacity building and professional development of its armed forces as an “important investment” in the future of bilateral defence cooperation, while calling for a deeper maritime security partner»»»

New figures released today, showed that the number of young people in the UK who are not in work or education has reportedly fallen below 1 million. The decline marks a significant variation in the number of young people currently outside employment and education. The figures hit their highest leve»»»

KUWAIT: Introducing Kuwaiti Sign Language as an optional subject in schools was among the ideas discussed by participants at Fatma’s Gathering this Saturday, where conversations regularly extend beyond the weekly meetings to issues of accessibility, communication and how the language can become mor»»»

The incident has divided opinion online, with some internet users criticising the teenagers for impropriety and disrespecting local customs, while others said the Thai woman reacted too harshly. (TikTok screenshot) BANGKOK: A viral video of a Thai woman confronting a group of noisy Italian teenager»»»

ScienceGermanyBrain tumors: New vaccine offers patients hope for more timeJulia VerginA new therapy offers people with seemingly incurable brain tumors scope for hope: It could slow the progression of the disease and extend patients' lives. https://p.dw.com/p/5GhnnBrain tumors have an almost 100% c»»»

Nicholas Rossi, 38, who was accused of faking his death and fleeing to Europe to evade rape charges in the U.S., has died. A man who was accused of faking his own death and fleeing to Europe to evade rape charges in the U.S. has died after he was taken to a hospital from a Utah prison, authorities »»»

0 Nicholas Rossi, the convicted rapist and fugitive who infamously faked his own death to evade US justice, has died in a Utah hospital at age 38. According to an official statement by the Utah Department of Corrections, Rossi passed away on Thursday, June 25, 2026, at 8:32 PM from complications of»»»

(June 26): As the class of 2026 join the race to find jobs, unemployed college graduates in Singapore are taking a last-ditch shot at getting ahead: temporary government-funded gigs that earn them half the median first paycheck. The government’s Graduate Industry Traineeships, known as GRIT, offer »»»

Greece’s digital government platform gov.gr is more than a successful digital reform — it is proof that the country can transform long-standing weaknesses into strengths, Minister of National Economy and Finance Kyriakos Pierrakakis said during an event marking six years since its launch. In his sp»»»

Debate about SA’s falling murder levels masks a deeper crisis To keep murders on a downward trajectory, South Africa must prioritise and fund interventions that prevent family violence. Published on 10 June 2026 in ISS Today By Chandré Gould Senior Research Fellow, Justice and Violence Prevention T»»»

Imagine the following scenarios: A surgeon prepares to amputate a patient’s foot to save his life, but the patient refuses the procedure. His decline in thinking and memory raises doubts about his ability to consent, and he has no family or friends to help with the decision. A 17-year-old declines »»»

A Nigerian man, Adepoju Salako, has been sentenced to 18 months imprisonment in the United States for his involvement in a wire fraud scheme linked to the 2022 Permanent Fund Dividend programme in Alaska. Salako, 33, who resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Tuesday afte»»»

A judge on Thursday handed down an extraordinary prison sentence — nearly 42 years — to the former leader of a Minnesota nonprofit who was convicted in a staggering $250 million fraud case that helped ignite an immigration crackdown by the Trump administration. Aimee Bock ran Feeding Our Future, wh»»»

MADRID — A Spanish court is investigating former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero for alleged influence peddling and other possible crimes tied to a government airline bailout. The National Court in Madrid is probing possible financial wrongdoing in connection with the Spanish government»»»

Bangladesh’s once-praised family planning system is buckling under severe contraceptive shortages, raising fears of a rise in unplanned pregnancies in one of the world’s most densely populated countries. For decades, the South Asian nation was hailed as a success for slashing birth rates through an»»»

THE HAGUE - An airplane carrying passengers and part of the crew from the Dutch cruise ship MV Hondius, where the Andes virus was detected, arrived at Eindhoven Air Base in the Netherlands on Sunday evening, the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) confirmed. The gr»»»

Madrid: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's former right-hand man takes the stand on Wednesday as a key suspect in a corruption trial that has cast doubt on the Socialist-led government's future. The trial of Jose Luis Abalos is just one of several investigations into alleged corruption by Sanch»»»

Abbey’s Productions launches a cinematic campaign with Al Watan Baqee (The Homeland Remains) KUWAIT CITY, April 16: Abbey’s Productions, the trailblazing media house led by Sheikha Abrar Khaled Al Sabah, has officially announced the launch of a definitive cinematic campaign designed to galvanize th»»»

Health workers and rights advocates say co-payments, set to take effect on May 1, amount to 'de facto denial of care'. Toronto, Canada – Rallies have been held across Canada urging the government to reverse planned cuts to a healthcare programme for refugees and asylum seekers. Dozens of people dem»»»

A healthcare expert said that while respiratory infections in the country have become more manageable through vaccinations, patients often hesitate to get them due to out-of-pocket costs.In a media conference on Tuesday, infectious diseases ... »»»

There are no plans to introduce COVID-like measures to deal with the energy crisis unfolding due to the continued Middle East escalation, the Irish deputy prime minister said on Monday. The scale of the energy crisis is greater than the world has ever seen, but there are no supply concerns in Irela»»»