WASHINGTON: India is prepared to take back its citizens residing illegally in the United States, foreign minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar has said after meeting the top diplomat of President Donald Trump’s new administration. Jaishankar’s remarks came after a meeting with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Washington on Tuesday (Jan 23) a day after Trump’s inauguration. Trump issued a raft of executive orders this week that aim to clamp down on illegal immigration and expedite his goal of deporting millions of immigrants. Jaishankar said New Delhi was open to taking back undocumented Indians and was in the process of verifying those…
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Police in Da Nang say bust is biggest money laundering case ever exposed in the central coastal city.Vietnam police say they have arrested five people and smashed a money laundering ring that brought $1.2bn of criminal cash into the country from abroad. Between 2022 and 2024, members of the ring – which included bank employees – forged identification cards and bank seals to establish 187 businesses, opening more than 600 corporate bank accounts, according to authorities. The accounts were used to transfer and legalise money obtained through fraud or gambling abroad, police said in a statement on Wednesday, adding that…
The NHL issued a three-game suspension to Edmonton Oilers superstar Connor McDavid this week for cross-checking Vancouver Canucks forward Conor Garland late in their game this weekend.McDavid was angry after he had been tackled to the ice and held down by Garland — with no penalty called — as the Oilers were attempting to tie the game.On Tuesday night, the Oilers decided to issue a very bizarre — and relatively pointless — statement regarding the suspension.”The Oilers organization is disappointed and we share in our fans’ frustration over the three-game suspension of our captain Connor McDavid. We support him through…
In its heyday in the mid-20th century, the steel mill in Weirton, W.Va., employed 13,000 people and offered workers a relatively stable blue-collar life. In 2003, Weirton Steel filed for bankruptcy. Shops downtown boarded up their windows, and young people moved away from the declining Appalachian town.Weirton’s prospects were turning around in May 2023 when I made a trip there as energy secretary. Form Energy, which builds large iron-air batteries to store energy for the electric grid, had just broken ground on a 550,000-square-foot factory. Today, the production line is humming, and when the plant reaches full capacity, it will…
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Caroline Tompkins/Refinery29 for Getty Images When trying to form a healthy habit, it usually helps to be conscious. So it is easy to understand why sleep-tracking devices, which claim to reveal what happened while users were out for the count, have become so popular with those in pursuit of better rest. These promise to monitor not just how long you have slept, but the depth and quality of your sleep too. They even offer insights into how peppy you should expect to feel the next day. Most sleep scientists caution that the data recorded by these devices is unreliable, but…
Note: Map shows the area with a shake intensity of 4 or greater, which U.S.G.S. defines as “light,” though the earthquake may be felt outside the areas shown. The New York Times A moderately strong, 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck in the Philippines on Thursday, according to the United States Geological Survey.The temblor happened at 7:39 a.m. Philippine time about 4 miles southeast of Liloan, Philippines, data from the agency shows.As seismologists review available data, they may revise the earthquake’s reported magnitude. Additional information collected about the earthquake may also prompt U.S.G.S. scientists to update the shake-severity map. Aftershocks in the region…
Amazon on Wednesday said it was closing all of its warehouse and logistics operations in Quebec, the Canadian province where unions gained a foothold in one of its facilities, and would lay off 1,700 employees.The closures represent a U-turn from Amazon’s recent investments in the province. The company opened three delivery stations in 2021, and one last year. It also had a small fulfillment center in Quebec and two warehouses that sorted packages. All told, the investments totaled about 2 million square feet of operations, according to an estimate by Marc Wulfraat, a warehousing industry consultant based in Montreal who…
Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Electric vehicles myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.Brussels has promised to help Europe’s embattled car industry potentially by using pan-EU subsidies to boost demand for electric vehicles. Teresa Ribera, executive vice-president of the European Commission, told the Financial Times at the World Economic Forum in Davos that officials were still “shaping” options for an incentive programme. “It makes sense to see how we could figure out in a pan-European perspective, how to facilitate the measures instead of going through national subsidies,” Ribera said. She warned against a “race where…
Credit: Defense Visual Information Distribution Service In the latest episode of “Promises Made, Promises Kept”, President Trump is moving very quickly to secure the southern border. Pentagon officials told the AP that at least 1,500 active duty troops are set to deploy right away. These troops will be the first active duty soldiers to be deployed to protect the American homeland in many moons. RELATED: Trump Effect: Gen-Z Most Optimistic About Trump Presidency Trump Rolling Using the military to carry out its primary duty seems like a novel idea in our times. Nevertheless, it’s something people have been calling for,…