Author: Paul E.

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan announced on Monday that 45 million million A nationwide vaccination campaign has been launched to protect children from polio.Pakistan regularly launches such campaigns, often with violent acts targeting medical workers and the police assigned to protect them. Militants falsely claim that the vaccination campaign is a Western plot to sterilize children.The campaign is the third of the year and will continue until Sunday “in response to the alarming rise in polio cases”, said Ayesha Raza Farooq, advisor to the prime minister on polio eradication programmes. “We are refocusing our efforts to fight polio,” she said in a…

Adopt a “Day One” mindset Every career journey is unique, and working at the United Nations presents unique challenges and opportunities. As a JPO, you gain valuable experience and connections that build a strong career foundation. However, influencing others, a key leadership skill, has its limits, and not everyone takes advantage of stretch assignments and rotations. Competition for general jobs is also fierce. So what’s your breakthrough? Embrace a “Day One” mindset. Approach challenges with curiosity, take risks, and see setbacks as learning opportunities. By doing so, you can stand out and demonstrate your value to the United Nations. Your…

London CNN — A former prosecutor takes over a political party in turmoil, promises to turn the page on a time of political turmoil, and storms to a once-unthinkable electoral victory. It’s a strategy that Vice President Kamala Harris hopes to take with her to the White House. And it’s already working: In the UK, Labor’s Keir Starmer won an election in July that ended 14 years of Conservative government. The official statement from the Starmer government has been unwavering: London will work constructively with whoever wins the presidential election. But sources say they see similarities in the careers, ideologies…

Stocks are heading into one of the busiest weeks of the year, with stocks near all-time highs.A late-week rally led by a surge in Tesla (TSLA) stock saw the Nasdaq Composite Index end the week up about 0.9%, just shy of its new record high. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 (GSPC) fell more than 0.3%, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) fell more than 2.6%.In the coming week, we’ll see the Fed’s recommended inflation indicators, the October jobs report, and the earnings of tech giants Alphabet (GOOGL, GOOG), Apple (AAPL), Amazon (AMZN), Microsoft (MSFT), and Meta. The latest information will…

Denise Austin just shared her go-to ab workout in an Instagram video. The fitness pro demonstrated two standing moves that target the “lower abdominals.” Austin explained that maintaining core strength is “especially” important for “women over 50.” In case you missed it, fitness star Dennis Austin recently posted another fun and informative workout video on Instagram. Now, the 67-year-old has revealed how she maintains toned abs, demonstrating two core-focused moves perfect for “women over 50.””Our core…our lower abdomen must be strong at any age, but especially for us women over 50!” Austin captioned the video . “Now that I’m 67…

Justin Baldoni’s home was one of the 23 million American households that adopted a pet during the pandemic.”I got him in early 2020,” Baldoni told USA TODAY Wednesday while in New York City for the 9th annual New York Dog Film Festival. “I don’t know if it was the best decision. It was a puppy during a pandemic. My wife and I thought, ‘Oh, we should get a dog, the kids would be happy.'”It felt like having another child in the house,” he laughed. “There were a lot.”Baldoni, 40, named the newest member of his family, a Goldendoodle, “Happy.”Happy, now…

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will use one of the biggest stages in the nation’s largest city on Sunday to make one final swing in his fierce 2024 race for the White House.Holding a flashy campaign event at Madison Square Garden, a venue that bills itself as “the world’s most famous arena,” is typical of President Trump. It’s another classic Trump-style strategic decision, and as the clock ticks toward Election Day on Nov. 5, why would the former president devote his limited time and resources to seemingly safe Democratic states? This is disconcerting for experienced political types who question the…

.Buha named Kessler as someone the Lakers should keep an eye on as a potential trade target, and the team appears to be “interested.” “Walker Kessler is a name the Lakers are interested in, which makes a lot of sense and would allow them to start a big two or perhaps more realistically get him off the bench. .”Source: Sports IllustratedMore about this storyThe Utah Jazz exercised third-year rookie scale options on guard Keyontae George, forward Taylor Hendricks and guard/forward Bryce Sensabaugh. The team also exercised a fourth-year rookie scale option on center Walker Kessler. Per team policy, terms of…

An Israeli study has found that oriental hornets (Vespa orientalis) can consume large amounts of alcohol without adversely affecting their health or longevity. Tel Aviv University researchers announced Sunday that these hornets are capable of chronically ingesting high concentrations of alcohol and show no signs of intoxication or behavioral changes. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests that this unique ability could lead to new models for studying alcohol dependence and alcohol metabolism in humans. The researchers discovered that when the wasps ingested alcohol labeled with heavy carbon isotopes, they rapidly metabolized it and…

chicken pox. Whooping cough. measles. You may have heard about these disease outbreaks and wondered, “Didn’t vaccination end the infection?”However, the only infectious disease we have eradicated using vaccines is smallpox, which is why people born in the United States after 1972 are unlikely to have been vaccinated against smallpox.Measles, which infected nearly 500,000 people each year until vaccination was approved in 1963, was declared eliminated from the United States in 2000, a historic public health achievement. This means that an outbreak would only occur if someone brought the virus into the United States from another country, and given the…