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A worker (center) tells people that the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) headquarters is closed on Friday in Santa Clara, California. — courtesy Getty Images
UK to help tech firms after Silicon Valley Bank collapse
LONDON — The government is working on a plan so that UK tech firms caught up in the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank won’t run out of cash, it has said.The Treasury said it wanted to “minimize damage to some of our most promising companies in the UK” after the US bank’s failure last Friday.US regulators shut down the bank on Friday in what is the largest failure of a US bank since 2008. The bank’s UK subsidiary will be put into insolvency from Sunday evening.Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt and Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey “were up late last night” and have been “working through the weekend to come up with a solution” to the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank UK, Hunt said on Sunday.While there’s no risk to the UK’s financial system as a...
March 12, 2023

UK to help tech firms after Silicon Valley Bank collapse

Sodium, an essential nutrient, increases the risk of heart disease, stroke, and premature death when eaten in excess. — courtesy Unsplash/Peter Werkman
A pinch (less) of salt can save lives, WHO says in new report
GENEVA — Implementing sodium reduction policies could save an estimated seven million lives globally by 2030, WHO said in a new report launched on Thursday.“Unhealthy diets are a leading cause of death and disease globally, and excessive sodium intake is one of the main culprits,” the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared.A first-of-its-kind WHO global report on sodium intake reduction shows that the world is off-track to achieve its global target of reducing sodium intake by 30 percent, by 2025.“This report shows that most countries are yet to adopt any mandatory sodium reduction policies, leaving their people at risk of heart attack, stroke, and other health problems,” he said.To reverse this trend, the global healthy agency is...
March 12, 2023

A pinch (less) of salt can save lives, WHO says in new report

Russia’s night rocket attack ruined private houses in the Lviv region, Ukraine, on Thursday.
IAEA chief furious as Russian strikes threaten Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant
KYIV — At least nine people were killed in the latest wave of Russian attacks across Ukraine during the early hours of Thursday morning.It was the heaviest aerial bombardment in weeks, with at least 81 Russian missiles and eight suicide drones striking residential areas and key infrastructure across the country, according to Ukrainian officials.Nearly half of all households in Kyiv were without heat, as were many in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, where the water was also cut on a day when outdoor temperatures were expected to fall to around freezing, local officials said.Around 150,000 households were left without power in Ukraine’s northwestern Zhytomyr region. In the southern port of Odesa, there were emergency blackouts due to damaged power lines.“[We heard a] crazy...
March 11, 2023

IAEA chief furious as Russian strikes threaten Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant

Four people were reportedly injured and taken to a local hospital after Russian shelling of Ukraine.
Fight for Bakhmut intensifies as Russian forces renew push
KYIV — Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Malyar said the fighting in Bakhmut had “escalated,” as Russian forces attempt to break through Ukrainian defense lines that have largely held firm for the past six months.Just west of Bakhmut, shelling and missile strikes hit the Ukrainian-held city of Kostiantynivka. The regional prosecutor's office said eight people were injured and more than a dozen homes were damaged or destroyed in the attacks.At least four people were reportedly injured and taken to a local hospital. Ukrainian police said Russian forces attacked the town with S-300 missiles and cluster munitions.Thursday's pre-dawn Russian onslaught was the largest such attack in three weeks with more than 80 Russian missiles and exploding drones.The barrage, which also...
March 11, 2023

Fight for Bakhmut intensifies as Russian forces renew push

Russian missiles have also targeted turbine halls in a bid to cripple the power supply.
Has Putin’s assault on Ukraine’s power grid failed?
KYIV/ MOSCOW — Ukrainians are enjoying the onset of spring. The nights are still cold, but they are emerging from a winter of Russian missile strikes that have cut their power, heating and their water too.The winter was very hard but it was now over, declared President Volodymyr Zelensky. Ukraine still had heat and the country was unbreakable, was the message.Until Thursday, Ukraine had just gone for more than three weeks in a row with no blackouts and even had surplus in the system.There had been no Russian attacks for three weeks either, and it looked as if Vladimir Putin’s battle to bring down Ukraine’s supply was over.“Yes, we’re doing it, but who started it?” he said in December, pinning the blame on Kyiv.It was a far more desperate story at that point. As much as half the...
March 11, 2023

Has Putin’s assault on Ukraine’s power grid failed?

Prince Edward
Prince Edward named new Duke of Edinburgh
LONDON — Prince Edward has been named as the new Duke of Edinburgh, Buckingham Palace has announced.The title, granted by King Charles III on the prince's 59th birthday, will be held for his lifetime.The former Duke of Edinburgh was Prince Philip, who died in 2021, and who was given the title on the morning of his wedding to Princess Elizabeth, who later became Queen Elizabeth II.The new Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, Sophie, will be in Edinburgh later.The couple are expected to attend an event in the Scottish capital on Friday marking the first year of conflict in Ukraine.Prince Edward becomes the Duke of Edinburgh almost two years after the death of his father, Philip, who held the title for more than 70 years.It was understood that Philip had wanted Edward, his youngest son, to...
March 10, 2023

Prince Edward named new Duke of Edinburgh

French President Emmanuel Macron shakes hands with Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at the Elysee Palace in Paris on Friday
Macron and Sunak try to put relations back on track at Paris summit
PARIS — The leaders of Britain and France shook hands and briefly posed for photographers, smiling, on Friday morning, as Rishi Sunak arrived at the presidential palace in Paris for a meeting with Emmanuel Macron.It's a sign of how badly eroded relations have been between Britain and France that Friday's summit is the first since 2018. Previously, they were held every two years.Emmanuel Macron and Rishi Sunak will try to repair some of that damage and show a "new chapter" is opening in relations between the neighboring nations, according to Macron's office.Relations between London and Paris chilled amid post-Brexit wrangling over fishing rights and other issues, and hit rock-bottom under Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who took delight in needling the...
March 10, 2023

Macron and Sunak try to put relations back on track at Paris summit

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni presides over a Cabinet session in Cutro's town council hall, southern Italy, Thursday.
Italian PM unveils new plans to crack down on people smugglers
ROME — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni unveiled her right-wing government's plans to crack down on people smugglers following a Cabinet meeting she led Thursday in the southern town near the beach where a wooden boat packed with migrantsBy holding the meeting in Cutro, Calabria, instead of the capital, Rome, Meloni said she was stressing her resolve to “combat the slavery of the Third Millennium.”She announced that her Cabinet had approved a decree establishing a new crime — people smuggling that results in death or serious injury to migrants — punishable by up to 30 years in prison, an exceptionally stiff sentence for crimes involving facilitating illegal immigration.Many of the dead and survivors in the February 26 tragedy had fled Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and Syria,...
March 10, 2023

Italian PM unveils new plans to crack down on people smugglers

Armed police storm a building in Hamburg
Several people killed in German church shooting
HAMBURG — A number of people have been killed in a shooting at a Jehovah's Witness meeting hall in the north German city of Hamburg.Police say the gunman acted alone and is thought to be dead. It is unclear if the attacker is among the six or seven fatalities reported by German media.As yet, "there is no reliable information on the motive", police say.A number of people were also injured in the shooting on Deelböge street in the city's Gross Borstel district.Police say they found a dead person at the scene who they believe may have been a perpetrator and investigations are continuing.Police were called around 21:15 (20:15 GMT) to reports that shots had been fired in the building, police spokesman Holger Vehren said.Officers who went in found people who "may have...
March 10, 2023

Several people killed in German church shooting

Refugees walk through a deportation center in Bamberg, Germany. (File photo)
German cities struggling with winter influx of migrants from the Western Balkans
BERLIN — This winter, cities in Germany faced yet another influx of refugees but this time it was not Ukrainians fleeing war but people from Western Balkan countries seeking to escape their countries' harsh winters and poor social living conditions.Cologne has, for instance, recorded more migrants from the Western Balkans in recent months than during the Yugoslav Wars that occurred from 1991 to 2001, according to the western city's press officer, Katja Reuter."The number of people from the West Balkans in Cologne city housing is over 1,000. Due to fluctuation, a more exact number is not available."Around 40 percent of the refugees come from Ukraine, and the other nationalities are well over 60 percent. The majority of them come from Albania," said Reuter.Now, the...
March 09, 2023

German cities struggling with winter influx of migrants from the Western Balkans

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