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Skyrocketing prices making flour inaccessible in Pakistan
People are struggling to get a single bag of the daily-use commodity and stampedes have also been reported at sale points in rural parts of the country as the people endeavour to get subsidised flour bags, The News reported. The highly subsidised 10 and 20 kg flour bags in Punjab province are still short in supply
Covid vax acceptance up globally, young people hesitant about boosters
The willingness of parents to vaccinate their children also rose slightly, from 67.6 per cent in 2021 to 69.5 per cent in 2022. However, vaccine acceptance decreased in eight countries and almost one in eight vaccinated respondents, particularly younger men and women, were hesitant about receiving a booster dose.
China to top global equity market performance in 2023: Morgan Stanley
"We see an earlier and stronger growth recovery from 1Q23 amid faster reopening, stronger housing support and tech regulatory easing, lifting 2023 GDP to 5.7 per cent and 12m USDCNY to 6.65. China is set to top global equity market performance in 2023, in our view, with structural improvement on ERP and ROE. .
Biden declares emergency in California as winter storms continue
The federal emergency declaration will authorize the Department of Homeland Security and Federal Emergency Management Agency to coordinate all disaster relief efforts. On January 4, California Governor Gavin Newsom had decalred an emergency for the entire state which is home to around 40 million residents, due to the severe winter storms.
Indian-American named NASA's chief technologist
In his role, Charania will align NASA's agency wide technology investments with mission needs across six mission directorates and oversee technology collaboration with other federal agencies, the private sector, and external stakeholders.
Iranian Speaker holds Trump legally accountable for killing Soleimani
The "criminal act" of assassinating Soleimani was a "flagrant and absolute instance of state terrorism", Xinhua news agency quoted Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf as saying at the 13th session of the Asian Parliamentary Assembly in Turkey on Monday.
2 British men missing in Donetsk: Ukraine police
According to the police, Andrew Bagshaw, 48, and Christopher Parry, 28, were last seen on January 6 heading to the town of Soledar where intense fighting is ongoing, reports the BBC. Responding to the development, the British Foreign Office said it was "supporting the families of two British men who have gone missing in Ukraine".
Classified documents from Biden's time as VP found in private office
Richard Sauber, a special counsel to the President, said on Monday that the files were discovered just before the November 8, 2022, midterm elections by Biden's attorneys who were clearing out the office space, the BBC reporte. Biden kept an office at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement think tank, which is about a mile from the White House, from 2017 to 2020.
South Asians '15 times more likely die from climate change impact': Guterres
"South Asia is one of the world's global climate crisis hotspots -- in which people are 15 times more likely to die from climate impacts than elsewhere," he said on Monday. "As always, those developing countries least responsible (for climate change) are the first to suffer" because of it, he added at a UN-sponsored fund-raising conference in Geneva to help Pakistan recover from last year's devastating floods.
Kevin McCarthy may have become Speaker of the House -- Has he paid an enormous price?
As early as 2015, McCarthy has been lobbying for this prestigious post, where the Speaker conducts the proceedings of the House, but is also the third in line for the US Presidency. He lost the Speakership in 2015 when he accidentally spilled the beans about the political aim of the GOP's Benghazi committee that investigated the then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the emails controversy, the backlash from his own allies forced him to withdraw.
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