Posts by Riah Stelmack
Brussels vets countries’ compliance with EU fiscal rules
This week, the European Commission assessed the multiannual spending plans of the 21 member states who submitted them – giving passing grades to 20 and failing one. The passing countries: Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden. However, the…
Read MoreDeath toll in Uganda landslides rises to 20 as search for more casualties presses on
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — More bodies buried under the mud were retrieved in eastern Uganda on Friday and an injured person died in a hospital, bringing the death toll from this week’s landslides to 20, officials said as search efforts pressed on in the stricken area. Heavy rains had triggered the landslides that engulfed six…
Read MoreAmazon workers in Germany stage protest on Black Friday
Hundreds of Amazon employees from across Germany staged protests on Friday against what trade union representative say are unfair working conditions and the company’s lack of a collective wage agreement. Demonstrators marched from two directions to a central rally in a hall in Bad Hersfeld in the state of Hesse. Amazon has two logistics centres…
Read MoreIsrael prevents return to dozens of villages in southern Lebanon
Israel’s army has banned residents of several villages in southern Lebanon from returning home until further notice. An Israeli military spokesman announced on X in Arabic that the military didn’t want the villagers to be put in danger of being targetted. He listed more than 60 villages near the Israeli border that are part of…
Read MoreOld video shows former Kenyan president receiving charity award, not becoming a Mason
Amid ongoing tension between Kenya’s church leaders and President William Ruto, a video has resurfaced online claiming to show the late Daniel arap Moi, the country’s second president and a member of the same ethnic community as Ruto, being inducted into Freemasonry. In Kenya, Freemasonry has long been associated with devil worship in a country…
Read MoreUniqlo faces online China backlash over Xinjiang cotton stance
Uniqlo is facing an online backlash in China after the boss of its parent company said the Japanese clothing retailer does not source cotton from Xinjiang. Fast Retailing’s chief executive Tadashi Yanai said Uniqlo was “not using” cotton from the western Chinese province in a BBC interview this week. Commentators in China picked up on…
Read MoreTesla’s Withdrawal Pushes India to Broaden EV Incentives for Existing Factories
India is changing its EV policy to attract foreign car makers, including Toyota (TM, Financial) and Hyundai (HYMTF, Financial) , after Tesla (TSLA, Financial) decided not to assemble cars in India. New rules, to be implemented by March, extend taxation incentives for EV manufacturing at existing factories and for the production of vehicles built on…
Read MoreChad cuts military agreement with France
Chad has said it is terminating a key defence cooperation agreement with France, raising questions about Paris’s waning influence in Africa’s embattled Sahel region. Chadian Foreign Minister Abderaman Koulamallah said it was time for his country to “assert its full sovereignty”. The announcement came just hours after Koulamallah’s French counterpart, Jean-Noel Barrot, met Chad’s President…
Read MorePowder, puppets and ponies: Africa’s top shots
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Read MoreChad ends a defense cooperation agreement with France, its former colonial ruler
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Chad’s government said it is ending a defense cooperation agreement with France, its former colonial ruler, to redefine the nation’s sovereignty. The decision marks a historic turning point since the Central African nation gained independence more than six decades ago, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Abderaman Koulamallah said in a statement Thursday. It…
Read MoreUkraine fights to keep the lights on as Russia hammers power plants
Amid the monstrous heaps of twisted metal, pools of congealed oil and walls pockmarked by shrapnel, one incongruous detail catches my eye. Patches of snow. Inside a thermal power station. With another Ukrainian winter arriving, the vast turbine hall is full of activity. Engineers, dwarfed by the enormous scale of the place, repairing what they…
Read MoreChildcare worker who abused more than 60 girls jailed for life
A former childcare worker dubbed “one of Australia’s worst paedophiles” has been sentenced to life in prison for raping and sexually abusing almost 70 girls. Ashley Paul Griffith, 47, confessed to 307 offences committed at childcare centres in the Australian state of Queensland and Italy between 2003 and 2022. His victims were aged between one…
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