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Unesco is choosing new director who will face big funding shortage after US exit

The Unesco logo hangs from a podium in Paris (Image credits: AP) PARIS: An Egyptian antiquities professor and ex-tourism minister is facing off against a Congolese economist who promoted schooling in refugee camps in a race to become the new director of Unesco. Whoever wins will inherit a world body reeling from the Trump administration’s […]

‘False STEM workforce shortage’: Republican lawmaker pushes for amendment to stop H-1B abuse

Republican leader Riley Moore brings amendment to stop H-1B abuse. Rep Riley Moore said he proposed an amendment to stop the abuse of the H-1B visa program and the House Appropriations Committee approved it. The amendment instructs the US labor department to investigate the ‘fake shortage’ of the STEM workforce and submit a report on […]

‘This ain’t aid, it’s death’: Gaza food distribution plagued by violence and shortage; UN calls situation ‘already apocalyptic’

A Palestinian carries a bag of food he collected at a distribution centre run by private contractor the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in the southern Gaza Strip, as he arrives at his tent in Khan Younis (Image credit: AP) Palestinians in Gaza are risking their lives daily to get food as aid remains scarce and violence […]

Indian-origin Howard University professor says H-1B visas have no connection to US worker shortage

Howard professor Ron Hira weighed in on the recent H-1B uproar. Howard University professor Ron Hira said H-1B visa programs that allow US companies to hire skilled labour from outside the country have no connection to merit or shortage of US workers for those specific jobs.Ron Hira, whose parents were Indians and came to the […]

Polls close in Australian vote focused on high prices and shortage of housing | World News

MELBOURNE: Vote counting has begun in Australia’s general election after polling stations closed across the country. Counting is well underway in the east, where polls closed two hours earlier. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his rival Peter Dutton began campaigning on Saturday in the electorally crucial city of Melbourne. Albanese later returned home to Sydney […]

Egg seizures at US borders outpace fentanyl amid bird flu-induced poultry shortage

Border statistics reveal eggs are being intercepted more frequently than fentanyl at US borders, coinciding with nationwide poultry shortages due to bird flu outbreak.US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data indicates 5,572 egg product seizures in the current fiscal year, compared to 15,955 interceptions in fiscal year 2024 and 16,541 in fiscal year 2023. For […]