The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has criticised the UK Home Office’s proposal to increase the cost of Electronic Travel Authorisations (ETAs) by 60%, raising the fee to GBP 16 just a week after the system’s introduction. IATA Director General Willie Walsh warned that the move undermines the UK’s goal to boost tourism by 30% […]
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Over the past 15 years there’s been an increasing demand from within and outside the higher education sector for African countries to produce more PhD graduates. For this to happen, it’s important to know what’s holding people back from pursuing or completing their doctoral degrees. The authors of a new review article did just that,
WASHINGTON, Jan 18 (Reuters) – Several thousand people, mostly women, gathered in Washington on Saturday to protest President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, with some wearing the pink hats that marked the much-larger protest against his first inauguration in 2017. In Franklin Park, one of three kickoff locations for the “People’s March” that will wind through downtown,
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This article was originally published in Spanish At least 30 people have been injured in a ski lift accident at the Spanish resort of Astún, around the Pyrenees mountain range, emergency services in Spain said on Saturday. ADVERTISEMENT Regional emergency services said that 10 of the injured needed to be treated in hospitals, including two who
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When Congress passed a bill in April 2024 ordering ByteDance to either sell TikTok or face a ban, many speculated that ByteDance would opt to sell, because the American market was too valuable to relinquish freely. But TikTok actually faced an even bigger exodus of users in 2020, when India banned the app. At the
Conflict, climate change, epidemics, and displacement are converging to create an unparalleled global health crisis, with 305 million people in urgent need of humanitarian assistance in 2025. In response, the World Health Organization (WHO) is calling for US$ 1.5 billion for its 2025 Health Emergency Appeal (HEA), to support life-saving health interventions worldwide. The appeal,
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WASHINGTON — It is unclear who will take over at the Pentagon and the military services when the top leaders all step down Monday as President-elect Donald Trump is sworn into office. As of Friday, officials said they had not yet heard who will become the acting defense secretary. Officials said the military chiefs of
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Claire van Kampen, a theater composer, director, playwright and the wife of actor Mark Rylance, has died. She was 71. According to an announcement from her family, van Kampen died on Saturday morning — also Rylance’s 65th birthday — in Kassel, Germany. The cause was cancer. Van Kampen was the first female musical director for
SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for Season 2, Episode 1 of “Severance,” streaming now on Apple TV+. When a 15-year-old Sarah Bock first read the script for the second season premiere of “Severance” way back in 2022, all she knew about her character was a job title: the “newest deputy manager” of Lumon Industries
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