The Tunisian General Labor Union (UGTT) recently attacked Tunisian President Kais Saied in the run-up to parliamentary elections on Dec. 17, raising the prospect of the union’s million-plus members going on strike and/or boycotting the polls. Already over the weekend, hundreds took to the streets in...
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Africa took center stage at a summit this week in the US capital with Washington announcing its backing for the African Union’s (AU) membership in the elite G20, Reuters reported. The African Union is made up of 55 members and is one of the largest regional...
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Canada plans to stop the military from probing and prosecuting alleged sexual offenses within the country’s armed forces, a move aimed at promoting more transparency and a better response to problems identified in a scathing report on the issue earlier this year, Al Jazeera reported. Defense...
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European Union policymakers have agreed to impose a border tax on imports of highly polluting products with a heavy carbon footprint, a deal that seeks to protect the bloc’s own climate ambitions while pressuring polluting nations to become greener, the Washington Post reported. The agreement –...
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This week, Russia said that the withdrawal of Russian forces from Ukraine by the end of the year is “out of the question,” according to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, who added that any peace deal with Kyiv is “impossible,” the Washington Post wrote. Peskov told...
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A new study on a spider monkey’s skeleton is shining new light on the intricate relations and geopolitics between ancient Mesoamerican civilizations, Smithsonian Magazine reported. In 2018, an archaeological team discovered the monkey’s remains in the ancient city of Teotihuacán, located in central Mexico. The finding...
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