What Happens to Social Security If You Retire Abroad?
If you are planning to retire abroad, one of the first things that likely comes to your mind is whether or not you will get Social Security benefits. Although whether or not you get Social Security depends on many factors, the answer in most cases is yes. In this article, we will try to answer all…#socialsecurity #azerbaijan #belarus #cuba #kazakhstan #kyrgyzstan #moldova #northkorea #tajikistan #turkmenistan (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - June 13, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Why Sweden Could Become One of the World ’s First ‘Smoke-Free’ Countries
STOCKHOLM — Summer is in the air, cigarette smoke is not, in Sweden’s outdoor bars and restaurants.
As the World Health Organization marks “World No Tobacco Day” on Wednesday, Sweden, which has the lowest rate of smoking in the European Union, is close to declaring itself “smoke free” — defined as having fewer than 5% daily smokers in the population.
Many experts give credit to decades of anti-smoking campaigns and legislation, while others point to the prevalence of “snus,” a smokeless tobacco product that is banned elsewhere in the EU but is marketed in Sweden as an a...
Source: TIME: Health - May 31, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Uncategorized Public Health wire Source Type: news
China's Xi meets Central Asian leaders, calls for trade, energy development
Chinese leader Xi Jinping promised to build more railway and other trade links with Central Asia and proposed jointly developing oil and gas sources at a meeting Friday with the region’s leaders that highlighted Beijing’s growing influence. The two-day China-Central Asia Summit in the western city…#xijinping #centralasia #beijing #xian #groupof #soviet #kazakhstan #kyrgyzstan #tajikistan #turkmenistan (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - May 19, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
‘Mind-boggling’ methane emissions from Turkmenistan revealed
Leaks of potent greenhouse gas could be easily fixed, say experts, and would rapidly reduce global heatingMethane leaks alone from Turkmenistan ’s two main fossil fuel fields caused more global heating in 2022 than the entire carbon emissions of the UK, satellite data has revealed.Emissions of the potent greenhouse gas from the oil- and gas-rich country are “mind-boggling”, and an “infuriating” problem that should be easy to fix, experts have told the Guardian.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - May 9, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Damian Carrington Environment editor Tags: Turkmenistan Greenhouse gas emissions Climate crisis Fossil fuels World news Cop28 United Arab Emirates Source Type: news
China, Russia, Pakistan, others push Afghan Taliban on terrorism
ISLAMABAD -- Frustrated over the Taliban's reluctance to take action against an array of militants, including a strengthening Islamic State group, Afghanistan's neighbors have resolved to come up with a joint strategy to counter security threats emanating from the country. Uzbekistan hosted…#islamabad #taliban #islamicstate #afghanistan #uzbekistan #samarkand #pakistan #iran #tajikistan #turkmenistan (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The Aral Sea and The Tragedy of Bad Politics
The Aral Sea, formerly the biggest saltwater lake in Central Asia and the fourth-largest lake in the world, sits on the border between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. And the Sea basin intersects all five Central Asian states, including Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Kyrgyzstan. Today, the remnants of…#aralsea #centralasia #kazakhstan #uzbekistan #seabasin #centralasian #tajikistan #turkmenistan #kyrgyzstan #caspiansea (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Energy & precious metals
Investing.com -- As oil bulls reveled last week in the end to COVID lockdowns in top crude importer China, inconspicuous remarks by Saudi and Moscow diplomats revealed the growing challenge for the OPEC+ heavyweights in finding a workaround to the G7 price cap on Russian oil. Saudi Arabia was…#saudi #moscow #g7 #russian #saudiarabia #riyadh #ukraine #alsaud #aheadofalsaud #turkmenistan (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 22, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Turkmenistan Is The Center Of A Geopolitical Tug Of War | ZeroHedge
Turkmenistan Is The Center Of A Geopolitical Tug Of War Authored by The Jamestown Foundation via OilPrice.com, Turkmenistan is facing a unique set of geopolitical challenges. Turkmenistan’s geological position makes it an object of intense geopolitical competition between East and West. China,…#nezavisimaya #ots #kremlin #azerbaijan #jamestownfoundation #rashidmeredov #centralasian #dayofneutrality #moscow #serdarberdimuhamedov (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 20, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Thoughts for 2023: Promoting Innovation & New Technologies
Patients seeking treatment at the Redemption Hospital in Monrovia, Liberia. Credit: World Bank/Dominic Chavez
The UN agency devoted to ending AIDS as a public health threat has called on top politicians and governments across the world to ensure the right to quality healthcare is upheld, and not just a privilege to be enjoyed by the wealthy.By A.H. Monjurul KabirNEW YORK, Dec 20 2022 (IPS) Promoting innovation and technology to promote inclusive development means using new technologies to enhance equal access to services, eliminate discrimination, increase transparency, and create a stable and just future for all ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - December 20, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: A.H. Monjurul Kabir Tags: Civil Society COVID-19 Development & Aid Featured Global Global Governance Headlines Human Rights TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news
‘ More Bad News For The Planet ’ As Emissions Rise to Record Levels in 2021
GENEVA — The three main greenhouse gases hit record high levels in the atmosphere last year, the U.N. weather agency said Wednesday, calling it an “ominous” sign as war in Ukraine, rising costs of food and fuel, and other worries have elbowed in on longtime concerns about global warming in recent months.
“More bad news for the planet,” the World Meteorological Organization said in a statement along with its latest annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin. It’s one of several reports released in recent days looking at several aspects of humanity’s struggle with climate change in the run up to...
Source: TIME: Science - October 26, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Jamey Keaten/AP Tags: Uncategorized climate climate change embargoed study healthscienceclimate wire Source Type: news
Russia's Putin to make first foreign trips since launching Ukraine war
Putin will visit Tajikistan and Turkmenistan and then meet Indonesian President Joko Widodo for talks in Moscow. #jokowidodo #turkmenistan #putin #tajikistan (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - June 26, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The contribution of walking to school in students' physical activity and its effect on being overweight - Khodanazari H, Choupani AA, Aghayan I.
RESULTS: The findings of this research showed that being overweight is a concerning issue even in a small-sized and lightly populated city such as Bandar-Turkmen, Iran. Most students (90%) did not perform the required minimum daily activity when commuting ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - June 20, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Is the association between suicide and unemployment common or different among the post-Soviet countries? - Seksenbayev N, Inoue K, Toleuov E, Akkuzinova K, Karimova Z, Moldagaliyev T, Ospanova N, Chaizhunusova N, Dyussupov A.
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) collapsed in 1991 and separated into the 15 post-Soviet countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine,... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - June 14, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Suicide and Self-Harm Source Type: news
How satellites may hold the key to the methane crisis
A new generation of detectors will be many times better at tracking discharges of the dangerous greenhouse gasLast month, scientists working with data fromTropomi, a monitoring instrument onboard the European Space Agency ’sSentinel-5 satellite,published some startling findings. Writing in the journalScience, the team reported that it had found about 1,800 instances of huge releases of methane (more than 25 tonnes an hour) into the atmosphere in 2019 and 2020. Two-thirds of these were from oil and gas facilities, with the leaks concentrated over the largest oil and gas basins across the world, as well as major transmissi...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 6, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Jocelyn Timperley Tags: Climate crisis Satellites Environment Science Space Cop26 Source Type: news
Two Earthquakes in Afghanistan Kill at Least 27
The quakes struck about two hours apart in a western border province along the border with Turkmenistan. #turkmenistan #earthquakes #borderprovince #quakes #afghanistankill (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 18, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
