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Business Upturn
08-07-2025
- Health
- Business Upturn
PawOrigins Begins a New Chapter With Veterinarian-Formulated Pet Longevity Products and Rescue Support
Sheridan, WY, July 07, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — PawOrigins LLC, an online pet products retailer, is beginning a new chapter in its mission to help dogs live calmer, healthier, and longer lives through vet-formulated supplements and expanded support for rescue organizations. Building on its reputation for science-backed solutions that address anxiety in dogs, the company is now broadening its focus to long-term vitality and holistic care. With a fulfillment operation in New Castle, Delaware, and a growing online presence, the brand aims to redefine what pet wellness means in the modern e-commerce landscape. Dr. Kathryn Dench: PawOrigins Chief Scientific Advisor Supporting Anxious Dogs Nationwide Anxiety is one of the leading challenges facing dogs today, especially those in shelters or transitioning to new homes. PawOrigins' flagship product, Happy-Furever™, developed by Cambridge-educated veterinarian Dr. Kathryn Dench (Chief Scientific Advisor), offers a natural approach to prescription medications in calming stressed dogs. 'We're empowering pets and the people who love them with solutions that focus on emotional balance and long-term vitality,' says Dr. Dench. 'Having my own 3 rescue dogs, I know how difficult it is, and I wasn't content with putting them on a lifetime of prescription medications.' Earlier this year, PawOrigins extended its mission by donating over $11,000 worth of calming products to rescue shelters nationwide. This initiative was created to support staff and volunteers working with some of the most anxious and vulnerable dogs and has already helped many rescues adjust more easily to foster homes and adoption. 'Our intention was really to see how we can help rescues with anxiety, we know this to be a huge problem from speaking with our customer base,' says CEO Mike Eli. A New Chapter In Natural Pet Care And Longevity Moreover, as part of its evolving mission, PawOrigins continues to innovate with veterinarian-formulated products designed to support dogs through every stage of life. The brand brings together trusted ingredients, veterinary expertise, and U.S.-based manufacturing to make holistic care more accessible and affordable for pet parents with anxious or sensitive dogs. 'This is just the beginning of an exciting new chapter for us ,' says CEO Mike Eli. 'We're focused on developing natural longevity solutions, working closely with veterinarians and expert formulators to help dogs not only live longer but enjoy healthier, happier years with their families.' With more pet parents seeking natural, holistic alternatives to support their dogs' long-term health, PawOrigins is working hard to design solutions that go beyond symptom relief, supporting immune health, mobility, and cognitive vitality. To explore PawOrigins' full range of products, visit PawOrigins Logo About PawOrigins PawOrigins® is a mission-driven pet wellness company incorporated in Sheridan, Wyoming, with operations based in New Castle, Delaware. Founded to support dogs' long-term vitality and emotional balance, PawOrigins® creates science-backed, natural pet care solutions for pet parents and rescue organizations alike. With a commitment to helping dogs at every chapter of life, the brand advocates for better health, stronger bonds, and compassionate transitions from shelters into loving homes. Disclaimer: The above press release comes to you under an arrangement with GlobeNewswire. Business Upturn takes no editorial responsibility for the same. Ahmedabad Plane Crash
Scottish Sun
15-06-2025
- Politics
- Scottish Sun
MI6 to get first female chief 30 years after Dame Judi Dench landed role in Bond movies
Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) MI6 is to get its first female chief — three decades after Dame Judi Dench landed the role in the 007 movies. Blaise Metreweli will lead the fight against rogue states such as Russia and China. Sign up for Scottish Sun newsletter Sign up 2 Blaise Metrewel, who becomes MI6's 18th chief, has also held roles in MI5, which deals with domestic security Credit: Supplied 2 The top job was portrayed by Dame Judi as 'M' in the James Bond films from 1995 Credit: Rex Features She begins in the autumn, having joined the intelligence services as a case officer in 1999. The top job was portrayed by Dame Judi as 'M' in the James Bond films from 1995. But the new chief will use the title 'C', as is service tradition. The Cambridge-educated spook is currently MI6 director general for technology — known as 'Q' in the Bond films and real life. MI6 is the UK's foreign intelligence service. Ms Metreweli, who becomes its 18th chief, has also held roles in MI5, which deals with domestic security. Only MI6's chief is ever publicly identified. She said last night: 'I am proud and honoured to be asked to lead my service.' She replaces Sir Richard Moore, who leaves after five years. Ms Metreweli has spent most of her career in operational roles in the Middle East and Europe. She said Russia poses an acute threat to the UK and described China as 'chronic'.
The Star
15-06-2025
- Business
- The Star
Trump vs a united Asean
US President Donald Trump's tariffs – especially the ultra-high 'reciprocal tariffs' that he says will be reintroduced on July 8 for any country that has not struck a trade deal with his administration – have sent countries around the world scrambling to respond, adapt, and limit the fallout. Asean's 10 members – Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam – have been among the most proactive. Their leaders quickly recognised that, after decades of spectacular gross domestic product growth, Asean is an economic force that the Trump administration would have to reckon with in a serious way. In 2000, Japan was the world's second- largest economy, some eight times larger than Asean; today, it is only 1.1 times larger, and by 2030, Asean's economy will overtake it. From 2010 to 2020, Asean contributed more to global economic growth than the European Union did. Asean owes much of this progress to open trade. Between 2003 and 2023, its trade with the rest of the world exploded, from US$618bil to US$2.8 trillion (RM11.9 trillion). But the real secret to Asean's success is strong and competent leadership, exemplified, in the grouping's early years, by Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, a Cambridge-educated lawyer, and Indonesian President Suharto, a Javanese military leader and mystic. It was their unlikely partnership that kept Asean together. Today, such leadership is exemplified by another group of seeming political opposites: Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto, Vietnamese General-Secretary Tô Lâm, and Singaporean Prime Minister Lawrence Wong. Anwar and Prabowo both experienced prolonged periods in the political wilderness and became friends during this time. Asean's leaders have upheld relative peace and stability in their countries while cultivating a culture of consultation and consensus (musyawarah and mufakat in Indonesian) in guiding regional relations. This stands in stark contrast to the experiences of many other developing countries and regions. Just a few weeks ago, neighbouring India and Pakistan narrowly avoided full-scale war. The Middle East remains gripped by instability and violence, with Israel winning wars and losing the peace. The leaders of Latin America's two largest economies, Brazil and Argentina, are barely on speaking terms. After 48 years of regular Asean meetings – with over 1,000 ministerial and lower-level meetings taking place annually – constructive engagement is a deeply engrained habit in the region. To be sure, Asean is often accused of lowest-common-denominator cooperation. But without such a measured approach, one guided by pragmatism, consensus-building, and compromise, Asean's member countries would not have managed to remain united through multiple shocks, including the Asian financial crisis of 1997-1998 and the global financial crisis a decade later. Asean is now bringing these strengths to bear in its response to Trump's tariffs. To be sure, the individualised nature of the tariffs – which vary widely within Asean, from 49% on Cambodia to 10% on Singapore – limits countries' prospects for true collective bargaining. But Asean's member states are well aware that they are stronger together. That is why, at the just-concluded Asean summit in Kuala Lumpur, hosted by Anwar, the group proposed a summit attended by Trump and Asean's 10 national leaders. This builds on Asean's April declaration that it would develop 'an enhanced, robust, and forward-looking Asean-United States economic cooperation framework', which strengthens 'constructive engagement' and drives 'innovative initiatives' to deliver a 'mutually beneficial economic relationship', with 'particular focus on high-value sectors'. The statement reflects Asean's awareness of its value to the US, which runs a significant trade surplus in services with the region. It is no coincidence that the US invests heavily there – nearly US$500mil (RM2.350bil) in 2023. Asean's value is set only to grow, owing not least to its efforts to deepen its ties with other regional organisations and economic powers. Its just concluded summit with China and the Gulf Cooperation Council – the first of its kind – sent a clear message: Asean is not pinning its future on its relationship with the US, but it is not turning its back on open trade. This aligns with the global mood: while Trump continues to brandish tariffs as a weapon against America's trade partners, other countries have refrained from raising tariffs unilaterally. Asean is also seeking to boost internal resilience by strengthening trade among its member countries. While intra-Asean trade has been declining as a share of total trade, from 25% in 2003 to 21.5% in 2023, this is only because trade with the rest of the world grew so rapidly. In any case, the group is now seeking to dismantle non-tariff barriers – more than 99% of goods already flow through Asean tariff-free – and exploring other measures to boost trade within the bloc. The US economy is formidable, and Trump's tariffs may well undermine Asean's growth in the short term. But by spurring the Asean countries to deepen cooperation with one another and with others, US tariffs could bring about an even more prosperous – and, crucially, resilient – grouping. This is especially likely if Asean makes the most of existing arrangements – for example, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) and the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), which could seek to negotiate a new partnership with the EU. Fortunately, Asean has the kinds of leaders who can spearhead such an effort, beginning with the bloc's current leader, Anwar. — ©2025 Project Syndicate Kishore Mahbubani, a distinguished fellow at the Asia Research Institute of the National University of Singapore, is the author of many books, including The ASEAN Miracle: A Catalyst for Peace. This article was first published by Project Syndicate.
Daily Mail
23-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Joe Thomas moans about living with his Inbetweeners star fiancé Hannah Tointon in rare interview
Joe Thomas has given a rare insight into his relationship with his fiancé Hannah Tointon, as he admitted that he's been left unimpressed by her home management skills. The Inbetweeners star, 41, got together with his sitcom co-star Hannah, 37, in 2012, after meeting on the set of the hit E4 drama. The pair moved in with each other two years later and are still going strong 15 years later. But despite getting engaged in 2017, and welcoming their first child in 2022, it seems living under the same roof can be a challenge for even the strongest of couples. Joining his former Inbetweeners co-star James Buckley, 37, and wife Clair on their podcast The Buckley's on Thursday, Joe said: 'I am going to do a little moan about Hannah, she's not here, she'll never hear this. 'But Hannah won't put things in specific places. I'll say something like, 'Where's the phone charger? ' and the only thing that Hannah will ever say is "Look for it" But I am like, "It would help me if there was a starting point".' He added: 'When you go on Google, it works because they've organised it, they don't go, "Oh it's all on there somewhere, have a root around."' The Cambridge-educated actor admitted that he doesn't always spend time searching for lost items but continued to blame the lack of a 'system.' He said: 'The implication is that I don't look for things, but the starting point, cannot be, 'It could be literally anywhere and it's your fault because you're not looking for it. 'That is a job for a specific part of the police and it's 8 or nine people and dogs and I cannot do that if I'm looking the phone charger. 'Like help me out. Sometimes she will say, "It's in here" which is just a lie, she's only saying it to get me out of the room. 'It's a way of saying, if you want to, you can start your search there, even though I f***ing know it's not there.' The Celebrity Bear hunt contestant finished his rant by saying that creating systems are essential for the smooth running of a home. He explained: 'Human beings are fallible, we forget things, that's why we have systems. 'A system is an unsexy term, but it takes responsibility away from the individual that says, "look we're going to forget things but let's have a place where it goes. Like passports for example. 'You don't just have them somewhere in the house…' Both from Essex, Hannah and Joe met after she played his character Simon Cooper's onscreen girlfriend, Tara during series 3 of the Inbetweeners. After confirming their romance, Joe admitted that he was surprised that romance blossomed between the pair after some 'icky' scenes together. He said: 'I really can't see how those scenes kindled romance because they were all her being sick into my mouth, but I am obviously really into that so it was fine.' Back in 2018 they starred in the summer comedy The Festival together. At the time Joe told Christine Lampard on ITV's Lorraine that he loved acting opposite Hannah, eight years after first working together. He said: 'I've got to the stage like she's in everything, I think it went very well.' Last year, Joe, who is still great friends with his Inbetweeners co-stars, confirmed that a re-boot could well be underway. The star said all of the main cast are on board to get back together, a decade after the last film was released. The actor suggested that another movie is more likely than a new TV series and would follow the group of lads away from school. Speaking on the Always Be Comedy podcast, Joe was asked whether conversations have taken place regarding a comeback, he said: 'Yes, it's happened in various forms. All of us feel it would be nice to do.' The comedy, which also starred Emily Atack as Charlotte, ran for three seasons between 2008 and 2010, but it was the two films in 2011 and 2014 that gave the franchise it's biggest boost with widespread popularity. The Inbetweeners 2, which followed the infantile foursome's adventures Down Under, broke the first movie's box office record by taking £2.75million on its opening day.
Al Jazeera
23-04-2025
- Politics
- Al Jazeera
Kremlin critic decried for ‘racist' rant on minorities fighting for Russia
Kyiv, Ukraine – Vladimir Kara-Murza barely survived two suspected poisonings in 2015 and 2017 that he claimed were orchestrated by the Kremlin. The bearded, balding 43-year-old may not be as outspoken as opposition leader Alexey Navalny, who nearly died of similar nerve agent poisoning in 2020. But Kara-Murza, a Cambridge-educated historian, has been instrumental in convincing Western governments to slap personal sanctions on dozens of Russian officials. In 2023, a Moscow court sentenced him to 25 years in jail for 'treason' and while behind bars, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his columns for The Washington Post. Released last year as part of a prisoner swap, Kara-Murza settled in Germany and continued his advocacy work against Russian President Vladimir Putin's government and Moscow's war in Ukraine. But last week, Kara-Murza's remarks about the ethnic identity and alleged bloodthirst of Russian servicemen rattled many on both sides of Europe's hottest armed conflict. 'As it turns out, [ethnic] Russians find it psychologically difficult to kill Ukrainians,' Kara-Murza told the French Senate on Thursday while explaining why Russia's Ministry of Defence enlists ethnic minorities. 'Because [ethnic Russians and Ukrainians] are the same, we're similar people, we have an almost similar language, same religion, hundreds and hundreds of years of common history,' said Kara-Murza. Russians and Ukrainians are ethnic Slavs whose statehood dates back to Kyivan Rus, medieval Eastern Europe's largest state torn apart by Mongols, Poles and Lithuanians. 'But to someone who belongs to another culture, it is allegedly easier' to kill Ukrainians, Kara-Murza added. His remarks made observers and Indigenous rights advocates flinch and fume. A former Russian diplomat said 'measuring the degree of one's cruelty by their ethnicity is a dead end.' The Kremlin does not specifically 'recruit minorities, they recruit people from the poorest regions, and those are, as a rule, ethnic autonomies', Boris Bondarev, who quit his Ministry of Foreign Affairs job in protest against Russia's 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine, told Al Jazeera. 'Only a dull man could say that in the war's fourth year in a multiethnic society,' said Indigenous peoples activist Dmitry Berezhkov, of the Itelmen nation on Russia's Pacific peninsula of Kamchatka. Russian liberal opposition figures, mostly middle-class urbanites, 'drown as soon as they tread on the thin ice' of ethnic minority issues, he added. Ethnic Russians constitute more than two-thirds of Russia's population of 143 million. The rest are minorities – from millions of ethnic Ukrainians and Tatars to smaller Indigenous groups in Siberia and the Arctic that have regional autonomy, albeit mostly nominal. Even in regions rich in hydrocarbons, rare earths or diamonds, the minorities live in rural, often inhospitable areas, co-existing and mingling with ethnic Russians. They all rely on Kremlin-funded television networks more than urban dwellers, often have no internet access and see the sign-up bonuses and salaries of servicemen fighting in Ukraine as a ticket out of the dire poverty their families live in. Recruits receive up to $50,000 when they sign up, and earn several thousand dollars a month – a fortune for anyone from those regions irrespective of their ethnic background. 'This is colossal money for them, they will never earn it in their lives, no matter whether they are Buryat or Russian,' Bondarev said. In response to a squall of criticism, Kara-Murza wrote on Facebook on Monday that the accusations were mere 'lies, manipulations and slander'. To Berezhkov, the comment further tainted Kara-Murza's image. 'In the past, [Kara-Murza's words] could be seen as a mistake – but now, they are his position,' he said. To another minority rights advocate, Kara-Murza's diatribe sounded like a 'signal for future voters' in the post-war, liberal Russia that exiled Kremlin critics hope to return to. Oyumaa Dongak, who fled Tyva, a Turkic-speaking province that borders China, thinks Kara-Murza and other exiled Russian opposition leaders are 'competing' with Putin. 'It's not him, it's us who defend [ethnic] Russians,' she told Al Jazeera. In 2024, Kara-Murza said Western sanctions imposed on Moscow after the 2022 invasion are 'unfair and counterproductive' and hurt Russians at large. He wanted the West to lift wider sanctions and instead target individual officials. A Ukrainian observer said Kara-Murza does not want ethnic Russians who can potentially vote for now-exiled opposition leaders to feel collective guilt for the atrocities committed in Ukraine. 'People don't feel guilty. If you club them in the head with moral condemnation every day, people will not admit their guilt but will hate anyone who clubs them,' Kyiv-based analyst Vyacheslav Likhachyov told Al Jazeera. 'That's why the tales about the atrocities of Chechen executioners and Buryat rapists are and will be popular,' he said. Fighters deployed by Chechnya's pro-Kremlin leader Ramzan Kadyrov were dubbed a 'TikTok army' for staged videos of them 'storming' Ukrainian strongholds. Their actual role in the war is mostly reduced to guarding occupied areas, terrifying and torturing ethnic Russian servicemen who refuse to fight. But Buryats, Buddhist natives of a scarcely populated and impoverished region near Mongolia, have become notorious in Ukraine in 2022. Human rights groups and Ukrainian officials identified personal details of some Buryat soldiers that tortured, raped and killed civilians in Bucha and other towns north of Kyiv. But as ethnic Buryats are hard to distinguish from other minority servicemen with distinctly Asian features, Ukrainians often label them all 'Buryats', a community activist said. 'All Caucasus natives are seen as Chechens, and all Asians are considered Buryats,' Aleksandra Garmazhapova, who helps Buryat men escape mobilisation and flee abroad, told Al Jazeera. However, the overwhelming majority of servicemen who committed alleged war crimes in Bucha were reportedly ethnic Russians. Garmazhapova survived because Ukrainian forces started shelling Russian positions, and his captors fled to a basement. 'Slavs, Slavs, they were all Slavs,' Viktor, a Bucha resident who was doused with fuel by Russian servicemen who placed bets on how far he would run once they set him on fire, told Al Jazeera in 2022, just days after his ordeal.
