Sat 01 February 2025: Rights group urges Canada to end ‘closed’ work permits that leave migrant workers vulnerable to exploitation and abuse. Montreal, Canada – Canada has failed to take meaningful action to address systemic abuses in a decades-old foreign worker programme, subjecting thousands of labourers to an “inherently exploitative” system, Amnesty International says. In a 71-page […]
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Fri 31 January 2025: President Donald Trump said on Thursday that there is no chance for BRICS countries to replace the US dollar. “The idea that the BRICS Countries are trying to move away from the Dollar, while we stand by and watch, is OVER,” Trump said on the social media platform Truth Social, referring […]
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Fri 31 January 2025: German lawmakers debated the possibility of banning the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party during a heated session Thursday, as concerns mounted over the party’s anti-democratic activities. Social Democrat lawmaker Johannes Fechner warned that right-wing extremists pose a serious threat to democracy and voiced his support for a motion to initiate proceedings to ban […]
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Fri 31 January 2025: 85 percent of the local population in Greenland are against the idea of becoming part of the United States, according to new polling conducted by research company Verian, for national newspaper Sermitsiaq in Greenland and media outlet Berlingske in Denmark. The poll was based on web interviews conducted between January 22 […]
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Thu 30 January 2025: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government will retain a ban on asylum seekers being able to claim protections under modern slavery and other human rights laws, even as its ministers have previously criticised those measures, Reuters has reported. Starmer is under pressure to deal with tens of thousands of people who arrive in […]
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Thu 30 January 2025: A regional plane collided in midair with a military helicopter and crashed into the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday night, according to authorities. “A PSA Airlines Bombardier CRJ700 regional jet collided in midair with a Sikorsky H-60 helicopter while on approach to Runway 33 at Reagan Washington National Airport […]
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Thu 30 January 2025: Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Wednesday that her administration will send a letter to US tech giant Google to address President Donald Trump’s executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America.” The executive order was among the first signed by Trump the day after he was […]
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Thu 30 January 2025: Major and sustained cyberattacks on the Chinese AI model DeepSeek originated in the US, Chinese media reported on Thursday. The cyberattack on DeepSeek began on Jan. 3 and peaked on Monday and Tuesday with a massive brute-force attack from US IP addresses, the South China Morning Post reported on Thursday, citing […]
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Wed 29 January 2025: US President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday to restrict gender transition procedures for people under the age of 19, in his latest move targeting transgender people since returning to office. The order comes the week after Trump said in his inauguration speech that his government would only recognize two genders, male […]
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Wed 29 January 2025: Global beverage giant Coca-Cola has recalled multiple products sold in some European countries where high levels of chlorate were detected. The Belgian Federal Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain (FASFC) said the recall involves products manufactured between Nov. 23 and Dec. 3, 2024. The list of recalled drinks includes Coca-Cola, Fanta, Sprite, […]
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