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Canada’s Trudeau on back foot over carbon tax
OTTAWA: Polluters should pay up, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau insists. But pressure is mounting to scrap his signature climate ...
Germany to legalise cannabis: What are the new rules?
Germany will partially legalise cannabis from Monday, implementing a flagship pledge of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s coalition government.However, access to the ...
Who will pay for the destroyed bridge, harmed businesses and lost lives?
WHAT ABOUT THE ECONOMIC COSTS?Attorney Thomas Schoenbaum, a maritime law expert and professor at the University of Washington, said despite ...
China reaffirms financial support for Sri Lanka
BEIJING: China has said it would continue to support Sri Lanka, as the crisis-hit island nation’s prime minister on Saturday ...
Sticky-fingered journalists on Air Force One put on notice
WASAHINGTON: Normally they’re the ones grilling Washington power players. But the tables have been turned on the White House press ...
Israel’s high court says the government must stop funding seminaries. Could that topple Netanyahu?
The court did not immediately respond to his request. But it issued an interim order barring the government from funding ...
Migrant workers who helped build modern China have scant or no pensions, and can’t retire
Some job recruiters contacted by AP said older workers don’t work well or have underlying illnesses. Others declined to answer ...
Study says since 1979 climate change has made heat waves last longer, spike hotter, hurt more people
Climate change is making giant heat waves crawl slower across the globe and they are baking more people for a ...
Pope skips Good Friday event to preserve health ahead of Easter, Vatican says
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis skipped the traditional Good Friday procession at Rome’s Colosseum to protect his health, the Vatican ...
Polish president vetoes legalization of over-the-counter morning after pill
Poland’s President Andrzej Duda on Friday vetoed a law that would have allowed over-the-counter access to the morning-after pill for ...
