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The median ages of populations are expected to continue rising over the coming decades. East Nanjing Road, Shanghai, China. Credit: Shutterstock. Opinion by Joseph Chamie (portland, usa) Monday, March 27, 2023 Inter Press Service PORTLAND, USA, Mar 27 (IPS) – Yes, lower the retirement ages! That is the key message that …

The Plateau government said that schools, hospitals, correctional centres and orphanages in the state would be the first beneficiaries from the mop-up. The Plateau government says it has bought 5,000 crates of eggs from the Poultry Association of Nigeria (PAN) Plateau branch, to alleviate the plight of farmers due to …

DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, The new party leader is due to be confirmed as first minister by Scottish lawmakers on Tuesday. Scotland’s governing party has elected Humza Yousaf as its new leader after a bruising five-week contest that exposed deep fractures within the pro-independence movement. Yousaf will lead the Scottish National …

HOSTOMEL, Ukraine — The gigantic twin tail fins, once stretching as high as a six-story building, are gone. So are the tailplane, flaps, hydraulic systems, fuel pumps and three of six engines of the plane, which was destroyed in fighting in the first days of the war. Piece by piece, …

Digital payments and lending firm Latitude Holdings said on Monday that 7.9 million Australian and New Zealand driver license numbers were stolen in a large-scale information theft on March 16. Apart from the driver licence numbers stolen, the Australian fintech firm also identified about 53,000 passport numbers were stolen, and …

Dr Timi Tonye, the Deputy Director, Media and Publicity, Delta APC campaign organisation, said this in a statement on Sunday in Asaba. Tonye said that information at the disposal of the party revealed that the state’s Commissioner for Information and spokesperson for the PDP presidential campaign council, Charles Aniagwu, had …

NATO has criticised Vladimir Putin for what it called his “dangerous and irresponsible” nuclear rhetoric after the Russian president announced his country would station tactical nuclear arms in Belarus. Putin said on Saturday that the deployment was similar to moves from the United States, which stores such weapons in bases …

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia said he would be able to position tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus by the summer, a move that threatened to increase tensions with the United States and Europe while his forces wage war in Ukraine. The Russian leader has repeatedly raised the specter of …

Rome, Italy CNN  —  Pope Francis has updated a 2019 church law governing clerical sexual abuse and extended it to include accountability for Catholic lay leaders of Vatican-approved religious organizations. Lay leaders are people other than clergy members who are on the professional rosters of the church. The norms were …

The governor made this known in a series of tweets on his Twitter page on Saturday, March 25, 2023, where he reiterated his commitment to upholding the rule of law. Sanwo-Olu stated in the message that he had “directed the Honorable Attorney General to set up a meeting and pay …