DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, Move comes a day before the parliament votes on Pita Limjaroenrat’s bid to become the next prime minister of Thailand. Thailand’s election commission has asked the country’s Constitutional Court to rule on whether the leader of the progressive party that won the most seats in a recent vote should be disqualified from parliament, according to media reports. …
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This summer’s flight headaches, many of them caused by extreme weather, continue to wreak havoc at airports across the US and beyond, with 11,337 delays and 2,077 cancellations reported so far. And it’s not likely to get much better any time soon. The hardest-hit airports on Monday, which saw the bulk of the cancellations, were Newark Liberty International, Dallas–Fort Worth …
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“Given the state of economy, start-ups are prioritising “profitability” over striving to become “unicorns,” and so are we,” he wrote, and added that customer support had been a struggle for the firm for a long time and that he was looking to fix this.
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Finland’s deputy prime minister apologized on Tuesday for “stupid social media comments” after a series of racist and sometimes violent remarks posted in 2008 surfaced in the Finnish press — the latest scandal for the party she leads, the right-wing Finns, since it joined the country’s governing coalition less than a month ago. Though the deputy prime minister, Riikka Purra, …
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A crane hoisted massive oak trusses from a barge and onto Notre Dame Cathedral on Tuesday in a spectacular operation to rebuild the fire-ravaged monument and bring it back to life by December 2024. With trusses weighing seven to seven and a half tonnes, the delicate operation drew crowds along a bridge over the Seine River and on its banks. …
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Doctors are calling for some teenage girls with eating disorders to be offered high-dose hormone replacement therapy (HRT) to prevent a debilitating bone disease. Youngsters with anorexia are three times more likely to develop weak bones, eventually developing into osteoporosis, where their bones are fragile and likely to break. This is due to both the lack of bone-boosting vitamins in …
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Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images Sterling rose to a 15-month high against the dollar on Tuesday after hot British labour data underscored market expectations of more interest rate rises from the Bank of England (BOE), and the greenback softened across the board. The pound rose as high as $1.2913, its highest since April 2022, and was last trading just shy …
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The judiciary said it was illegal to limit a transgender civil servant’s access to women’s restrooms at work The Supreme Court of Japan has struck down a Trade Ministry policy restricting the use of women’s bathrooms by a transgender official, deeming the regulation “illegal” and “unacceptable” following a years-long legal battle. The court ruled against the policy unanimously on Tuesday, …
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The disruption comes as humanitarian needs are at an all-time high after more than 12 years of war and in the wake of the devastating double earthquakes that struck the region in February. The UN and partners were hoping for a 12-month extension of the mandate to transport aid through the Bab al-Hawa crossing point – a lifeline for four …
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