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Australia is considering lifting the income threshold for some temporary migrants as part of moves to tackle the widespread shortage of workers. Australia’s Skills and Training Minister Brendan O’CONNOR said the government would examine raising the Temporary Skilled Migration Income Threshold, which has been at 53,900 (Australian Dollars) since 2013. According to reports gathered, the issue of […]
At least 10 people have been killed and another 15 injured in a stabbing rampage in Canada’s central Saskatchewan province, police say. The victims were found in 13 locations in the James Smith Cree Nation and nearby village of Weldon. Two suspects named as Damien Sanderson and Myles Sanderson are on the run and considered armed […]
A military base in Russian-occupied Crimea has been hit by a series of explosions, reportedly leaving at least two people hurt in the Dzhankoi area in northern Crimea Russian officials said a fire triggered the blasts at an arms dump but the cause of the blast still unclear According to the Russia’s defense ministry said the […]
Several leaked documents have revealed how the world’s biggest banks enable criminals to launder money around the world. The documents showing about $2tn of transactions are popularly called FinCEN files. The BBC reports that the FinCEN files are more than 2,500 documents, most of which were files that banks sent to the US authorities between […]
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates revealed that he lost his father on Monday. William Henry Gates II was 94 years old. “We have all had a long time to reflect on just how lucky we are to have had this amazing man in our lives for so many years,” Bill Gates wrote on his official blog. The […]
Microsoft on Sunday, said its offer to buy TikTok was rejected, leaving Oracle as the sole remaining bidder ahead of a looming deadline for the Chinese-owned video app to sell or shut down its US operations. TikTok has been at the center of a diplomatic storm between Washington and Beijing, and President Donald Trump has […]
Norwegian lawmaker Christian Tybring-Gjedde defended his submission of U.S. President Donald Trump for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize. According to him, the peace prize is to recognise Trump’s efforts toward resolving longstanding conflicts across the world. Tybring-Gjedde said this in an interview with Fox News broadcaster on Wednesday. “For his merit, I think he has […]
Pope Francis was seen Wednesday for the first time wearing a protective face mask as he attended his second traditional general audience before a limited public presence after a six-month suspension. The pontiff — known for a fondness for close personal contact — however quickly removed the mask as he emerged from the car carrying […]
Californians airlifted from fires as dangerous winds arrive The Bobcat Fire breaks on the San Gabriel Mountains, north of Monrovia, as the raging fires in the Angeles National Forest grew to 10,344 acres with no containment. – Dangerous dry winds whipped up California’s record-breaking wildfires as hundreds were evacuated from blazes by helicopter and tens […]
United States President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw troops comes as he faces backlash from a report that he allegedly made disparaging remarks about American war dead. Donald Trump on Wednesday, was expected to announce further troop withdrawals from Afghanistan and from Iraq, where several thousand US troops hunting down jihadist sleeper cells have faced […]
