A government watchdog says the Trump administration, under its practice of separating families at the border, forced migrant parents to leave the US without their children, contradicting claims by officials that parents were willingly leaving them behind.The Department of Homeland Security Inspector General said in a report released Monday that it found at least 348 cases in which Immigration and Customs Enforcement had no records showing migrants wanted to leave their children in the US. It also found “some” cases in which agency officials deported parents even while knowing they wanted to take their children with them.That contradicted assertions by…
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India’s partners in the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) have stepped up efforts to bolster the Covid-19 response of countries in the neighbourhood, scouring other parts of the world for surplus stocks of the AstraZeneca vaccine and providing funds for emergency relief.The moves by the other members of the Quad – Australia, Japan and the US – have come at a time when China is seeking to take on a greater role in the region by providing Covid-19 vaccines and other supplies.The US is already looking for surplus stocks of the AstraZeneca vaccine in Europe and other regions that can be…
President Joe Biden is doubling US emergency spending to help communities prepare for hurricanes and other extreme weather events, while launching a new effort at NASA to better understand and track the impacts of climate change.The $1 billion in spending being announced Monday is a small fraction of what the US spends on weather-related disasters. Last year alone, the nation endured 22 separate weather and climate-related disasters with losses greater than $1 billion each. The disasters, including wildfires, hurricanes and snowstorms, had a cumulative price tag of nearly $100 billion.2021 has already had significant winter storms that caused a deadly…
Google announced last Tuesday that it developed a new artificial intelligence tool to help people identify skin conditions. Like any other symptom-checking tool, it’ll face questions over how accurately it can perform that task. But experts say it should also be scrutinized for how it influences people’s behavior: does it make them more likely to go to the doctor? Less likely? These types of symptom-checking tools — which usually clarify that they can’t diagnose health conditions but can give people a read on what might be wrong — have proliferated over the past decade. Some have millions of users and…
(Photo : Pixabay) When looking for SEO services to hire, it can be tempting to choose the one that quotes the lowest. But this one move has the potential to destroy your business. Or, at the very least, it could cause you to lose faith in SEO – an equally harmful outcome when you consider the long-term SEO benefits you could miss out on and the fact that your competitors are most likely practicing SEO to get ahead of you. Here are some ways in which the decision to go cheap on SEO services can eventually bite you. Shady…
Ryanair Flight 4978 had already begun its descent into the Lithuanian capital when the pilot announced that the plane would be suddenly diverting to Minsk, capital of neighbouring Belarus.There was no explanation.But one of the passengers aboard the Boeing 737 reacted immediately, standing up from his seat, reaching into the overhead locker, pulling a laptop computer from his hand luggage and passing it to a female companion along with his mobile phone.Belarusian dissident journalist Roman Protasevich, who is wanted in Belarus for his role in broadcasting huge opposition protests in Minsk last year, did not have much time. Minsk is…
China has sought to frame the claims as conspiracy theories created to divert attention from the US government’s own handling of the coronavirus, and suggested that the Fort Detrick military base in Maryland should be investigated. Bloomberg | UPDATED ON MAY 24, 2021 02:58 PM IST China accused the US of promoting theories that the coronavirus escaped from a high-security lab in Wuhan, as a fresh report about sick workers at the facility prompted Beijing to reaffirm denials.“The report that you mentioned about three people getting sick, that is not true,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told a regular briefing…
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) conducted a new asteroid simulation to show the thing needed to destroy an approaching, giant heavenly body that could lead to Earth’s destruction. (Photo : Photo by NASA/Pat Rawlings via Getty Images)This artist’s impression shows the deep impact spacecraft as it fires an impactor into comet Temple 1. Scientists are hoping to find out more about the origins of our universe by studying the comet. The space agency’s latest experiment revealed that the plot twist of the popular iconic movie “Armageddon” is unlikely to happen. NASA claimed that the reason behind this is the…
A surge in domestic Covid-19 cases in Taiwan after months of relative safety is intensifying pressure on the government to accept vaccines from China, as the island has vaccinated just 1% of the population with no immediate sign of new shots arriving.The Chinese-claimed island and Beijing have repeatedly sparred over the pandemic since it began.Taipei accuses Beijing of spreading fake news and preventing its full participation at the World Health Organization, while Beijing says Taipei is playing political games with its people’s lives by refusing Chinese vaccines.Taiwan has only received about 700,000 vaccine doses to date, all from AstraZeneca Plc,…
Netflix is currently growing interested in a video game venture. The Los Gatos-based streaming company eyes to expand its service and this time, with an additional source of entertainment for a different kind of audience. Netflix is ‘Excited’ Over its Video Game Expansion Plan (Photo : Mario Tama/Getty Images))LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – MAY 29: The Netflix logo is displayed at Netflix offices on Sunset Boulevard on May 29, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos said the company will reconsider their ‘entire investment’ in Georgia if a strict new abortion law is not overturned in the…