The EU loses about a million workers per year due to aging. Migration official urges legal options
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The European Union’s top official for migration said Monday that member states will have to confront tough policy challenges — even in the current election year – to cope with the continent’s aging population.
Ylva Johansson, the EU home affairs commissioner, said there was a pressing need to shift away from and find more legitimate alternatives.
“For demographic reasons, the population of working age in the EU will decrease by 1 million per year. It is decreasing by 1 million per year
Police investigating threat made against Oshawa high school; students asked to stay home
Posted January 8, 2024 9:26 am.
Police in Durham Region are investigating after a threat was made against a high school in Oshawa.
Durham Regional Police say Maxwell Heights Secondary School, near Harmony and Taunton roads, received a threat on Monday morning.
The school is closed and parents are being asked to keep their children at home for the day.
“We are working to ensure the safety of all staff and students,” reads an online post from police. “The school will remain
Celebrity birthdays for the week of Jan. 14-20
Celebrity birthdays for the week of Jan. 14-20:
Jan. 14: Blues singer Clarence Carter is 88. Singer Jack Jones is 86. Actor Faye Dunaway is 83. Actor Holland Taylor (“Two and a Half Men,” ″The Practice”) is 81. Singer-producer T-Bone Burnett is 76. Actor Carl Weathers is 76. Singer Geoff Tate (Queensryche) is 65. Director Steven Soderbergh (“Erin Brockovich,” “
US fighter jets to fly over Bosnia in a sign of support to the country as Serbs call for secession
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Two U.S. fighter jets flew over Bosnia on Monday in a demonstration of support for the Balkan country’s integrity in the face of of the Bosnian Serb pro-Russia leader .
The U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcons flew as part of joint air-to-ground training involving American and Bosnian forces. The flyovers took part in the regions of the eastern town of Tuzla and northern Brcko, according to a statement from the U
Insider Q&A: The Knot Worldwide CEO on keeping up as Gen Z starts to wed
Tim Chi, the CEO of The Knot Worldwide, attended eight weddings in the year leading up to his own 2005 nuptials. After seeing all that stress and emotion firsthand, he started thinking about ways to make wedding planning easier.
“I felt very strongly that the wedding industry needed something user-generated that really helped good vendors stamp their reputation and gave consumers more information to make better buying decisions,” Chi said.
So Chi and three friends created WeddingWire, a marketplace for couples to research photographers,
Bill Belichick under contract, would take lesser role in personnel matters as Kraft meeting looms
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Bill Belichick is open to letting someone else handle personnel duties if he remains with the New England Patriots.
The Patriots coach also confirmed Monday during his season-ending news conference that he remains under contract, though he didn’t specify the length of its current terms.
New England’s 17-3 loss to the New York Jets on Sunday cemented a 4-13 record for the Patriots, Belichick’s worst record in his 29-year NFL head
Pakistan’s court scraps a lifetime ban on politicians with convictions from contesting elections
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Monday scrapped a lifetime ban on politicians with convictions from contesting elections, paving the way for to run for the fourth time.
The court ruling will also enable other politicians to run for parliament in the Feb. 8 elections.
The lifetime ban on convicted politicians was imposed in 2018. Under a new court order passed on Monday, convicted politicians would be barred from running only for five years.
Sharif’s party said he will seek a fourth term
German opposition figure launches a new party that may have potential against the far-right
BERLIN (AP) — A high-profile German opposition politician on Monday formally founded a new party that combines left-wing economic policy with a restrictive approach to migration and other positions that some observers believe could help it take votes away from the far-right Alternative for Germany.
Sahra Wagenknecht said her “Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance — Reason and Fairness” will make its electoral debut in the European Parliament election in June. She said she is confident that it also will run in three state elections in September in eastern regions where
Commanders fire coach Ron Rivera as new ownership begins making changes
ASHBURN, Va. (AP) — Ron Rivera was fired Monday as coach of the Washington Commanders, a long-anticipated move new owners made as they put their stamp on the NFL franchise they bought last year.
It’s just the first of several changes coming to an organization that has won just two playoff games over the past three decades. The fourth and final season under Rivera finished with eight consecutive losses, a 4-13 record and a with Washington’s home stadium full of Cowboys fans.
Taliban-appointed prime minister meets with a top Pakistan politician in hopes of reducing tensions
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Afghanistan’s Taliban-appointed prime minister met Monday with one of Pakistan’s most senior politicians in an attempt to reduce lingering tensions between the two countries, a spokesman for the Taliban government said.
Fazlur Rehman, whose Jamiat Ulema Islam party is known for backing the Afghan Taliban, is the first senior Pakistani politician to visit Kabul since the in August 2021 as U.S. and NATO troops withdrew from the country after 20 years of war.
The Pakistani delegation met