[ad_1] Washington: The US Senate on Tuesday (local time) confirmed the appointment of Indian-origin Jay Bhattacharya, a professor at Stanford School of Medicine, as Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). According to the official website of the US Senate, Mr Bhattacharya won the vote 53-47 during the first session of the roll call…
[ad_1] Geneva: Last year was the deadliest on record for migrants, with nearly 9,000 people confirmed to have died on perilous routes that include crossing the Sahara Desert or the Mediterranean Sea, the UN migration agency said on Friday. “The increase in deaths across so many regions in the world shows why we need an…
[ad_1] New York, United States: US President Donald Trump named a regional airline chief to lead the Federal Aviation Administration on Monday as the agency contends with safety questions following a deadly crash in January. Trump tapped Bryan Bedford, chief executive of Republic Airways, to lead the agency which manages the US Air Traffic Organization…
[ad_1] Jerusalem: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bid to dismiss a top security official has threatened to plunge Israel back into deep political crisis, with opponents on Monday organising protests and a former court president warning against the “dangerous” move. Netanyahu on Sunday cited an “ongoing lack of trust” as the reason for moving to sack…
[ad_1] Gaza’s civil defence agency said nine people including journalists were killed in Israeli strikes in the north Saturday, an attack Hamas denounced as a “blatant violation” of the fragile ceasefire. “Nine martyrs have been transferred (to hospital), including several journalists and a number of workers from the Al-Khair Charitable Organisation, as a result of…
