Sen. Amy Klobuchar on Friday released a multifaceted plan to improve care for seniors — including lowering prescription drug costs, strengthening retirement funds and Social Security benefits, and investing in long-term treatments. Building on her leadership in the Senate, according to a statement outlining the plan, Klobuchar would “continue to stand up for our seniors…
In a video shot in Lebanon over the weekend, a woman whose car is trapped among a sea of protesters, tells them that her toddler in the car is frightened. The protesters then break into a song and dance of Baby Shark to calm the child. The video is both sweet and uplifting. It’s also…
Pakistani singer Rabi Pirzada, @FunRabi, has done it again! She posted a picture on Twitter wearing what seemed like a suicide bomber jacket and it was apparently a statement against Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. And nobody is finding it funny in these conflict-ridden times. ### “#ModiHitler i just wish huh. #kashmirkibeti [daughter of Kashmir],”…
London: Oil resumed its decline on indications US crude inventories expanded for a sixth week, the longest run of gains in almost a year. ### Futures fell 0.6 per cent in New York, paring some of Tuesday’s 1.8 per cent gain that was driven by a report that Opec and its allies will consider deepening…
InterSystems, a global leader in information technology platforms for health, business, and government applications, announced the successful implementation by Mediclinic Al Noor Hospital of InterSystems TrakCare as its unified healthcare information system. The recent go-live at Al Noor hospital represents the seventh successful implementation of TrakCare across the Mediclinic network. ### Mediclinic Al Noor Hospital…
Since becoming Prime Minister of the United Kingdom this summer, Boris Johnson has vowed to take his nation out of the European Union (EU) come what may by the end of this month. Now, that solemn pledge certainly looks untenable as members of parliament at Westminster on Tuesday defeated his government’s plans to rush through…
Ras Al Khaimah: India’s SpiceJet reiterated on Wednesday its commitment to Boeing’s 737 Max aircraft even as it said there have been “significant consequences” from the grounding of the model. ### Ajay Singh, chairman and managing director of SpiceJet, said the financial fallout for the airline from having to ground 13 aircraft of that model…
Paris: Renault drivers Daniel Ricciardo and Nico Hulkenberg were disqualified from the Japanese Grand Prix on Wednesday after their team was punished for breaching regulations over brakes, the governing body FIA announced. ### Ricciardo was sixth and Hulkenberg 10th in the race at Suzuka on October 13 but the French team will now lose the…
Dubai: A fair amount of thinking must have gone behind Sourav Ganguly’s decision to wear the India blazer on a day when he was formally taking charge as the 39th President of Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). If there was a subtle message of underlining the difference between himself and the former…
Dubai ### An Emirati went on trial at the Dubai Court of First Instance after he was accused of threatening to set a house on fire to force the owner to pull out a case she had lodged against him for trespassing. ### The 50-year-old Emirati housewife testified that she was inside her house at…