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Mon, 20 Jun 2022 07:08:10 GMT
'Huge uncertainty' for EU firms over China's Covid curbs, chamber warns
While the rest of the world has steadily removed coronavirus curbs, China has remained committed to its zero-Covid strategy, using lockdowns and mass testing to stamp out all infections. But this strategy has hammered businesses and snarled supply ...

Mon, 20 Jun 2022 07:06:12 GMT
Bankrupt Sri Lanka opens IMF talks, begins shutdown
The country of 22 million people is in the grip of its worst economic crisis after running out of dollars to finance even the most essential imports, including fuel. On Monday schools were shut and state offices worked with skeleton staff as part o...

Mon, 20 Jun 2022 07:00:21 GMT
'The Assembly will no longer be a talking-shop where laws get rubber stamped'
There have been some great victories for NUPES, according to Andrew Smith, Senior Lecturer in Contemporary History and Politics at Chichester. We have seen a lot interesting new figures entering parliament. Rachel Keke, for example, is a brand-ne...

Mon, 20 Jun 2022 06:48:11 GMT
Australian PM hopes for 'diplomatic' progress in Assange legal saga
As domestic pressure mounted on him to intervene in the WikiLeaks founder's case, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he is sticking to comments he made while in opposition last year that "enough is enough". "I do not see what purpose is served by...

Mon, 20 Jun 2022 06:28:10 GMT
Iran hangs extremist accused of murdering Shiite clerics
A 21-year-old national of Uzbek origin carried out the April 5 stabbing attack at the Imam Reza shrine which honours one of the most revered figures in Shiite Islam. The killings happened during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan when large crowds of...

Mon, 20 Jun 2022 06:27:44 GMT
‘A bridge between past and present’: Colourised photos bring refugee stories to life
To mark World Refugee Day on Monday, Brazilian artist Marina Amaral has colourised twelve black-and-white archive photos, dating from the 1940s to the 1980s, from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

Mon, 20 Jun 2022 06:27:04 GMT
'There is a number of fresh faces that the left has elected at parliament'
2022-06-20 08:10 'There is a number of fresh faces that the left has elected at parliament'

Mon, 20 Jun 2022 06:10:14 GMT
Ecuador police requisition cultural center under state of emergency
"The national police notified (us of) the requisition of the place, under the state of emergency," the House of Ecuadorian Culture said. President Guillermo Lasso declared a state of emergency on Friday in three provinces, including the capital Qui...

Mon, 20 Jun 2022 06:03:30 GMT
Macron stripped of majority after crushing blow in parliamentary elections
Allies of French President Emmanuel Macron started working Monday to cobble together a working parliamentary majority to salvage his second term, after his alliance crumbled in the election against surges from the left and far-right.    

Mon, 20 Jun 2022 06:00:19 GMT
Swimming to set up 'open category' for transgender athletes
"I do not want any athlete to be told they cannot compete at the highest level," Husain Al-Musallam, president of governing body FINA, told an extraordinary congress of his organisation. "I understand why transgender athletes want to compete in t...

Mon, 20 Jun 2022 05:40:14 GMT
The Chechens fighting Russia on the front line
"If the Russians take me, I won't be exchanged", said the Chechen fighting with the Ukrainian army near the front line. The 33-year-old dissident, a refugee who has been in Poland for nearly two decades, joined the Sheikh Mansur battalion in April....

Mon, 20 Jun 2022 05:40:13 GMT
Pope's future sparks debate, resignation seems unlikely
Hobbled by pain in his knee and forced to use a wheelchair in recent weeks, the 85-year-old pontiff postponed a July trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan last week. That move, along with an unusual decision to hold a consistory...

Mon, 20 Jun 2022 05:36:10 GMT
Ukraine mechanics turn rally cars into 'combat buggies'
They change mufflers, remove sports tuning and change the interiors to create pared-down vehicles -- all under the supervision of businessman Volodymyr Tarkhov. Before the Russian invasion, the 32-year-old produced fibreglass catamarans and kayaks....

Mon, 20 Jun 2022 05:28:51 GMT
'Ukraine is trying to galvanize western allies to be in this fight for the long term'
2022-06-20 07:09 'Ukraine is trying to galvanize western allies to be in this fight for the long term'

Mon, 20 Jun 2022 05:20:13 GMT
Offshore detention survivors decry UK's Rwanda scheme
For more than six years, Sudan-born refugee Abdul Aziz Muhamat was detained by Australian authorities in a small tropical island camp off Papua New Guinea's mainland, hidden from full legal and public oversight. "The simplest way to describe daily...



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