Farm laws: India PM Narendra Modi repeals controversial reforms
Indian PM Narendra Modi has announced the repeal of three controversial farm laws after a year of protests.
Thousands of farmers had camped at Delhi's borders since last November and dozens died from heat, cold and Covid.
Farmers say the laws will allow the entry of private players in farming and that will hurt their income.
Friday's surprise announcement marks a major U-turn as the government had not taken any initiative to talk to farmers in recent months.
Peng Shuai: WTA prepared to pull out of China over tennis star’s disappearance
Steve Simon tells US media that Peng’s wellbeing was ‘bigger than business’ and that ‘women need to be respected’
The Women’s Tennis Association is prepared to pull its tournaments out of China if there isn’t an adequate response to Peng Shuai’s allegation that she was sexually assaulted by China’s former vice premier, chief executive Steve Simon has told US media.
Peng, Chinese tennis star and former doubles world No.1, has not been seen in public since she accused the former high-ranking official, Zhang Gaoli, of sexual assault in a Weibo post that was deleted half an hour later. In the lengthy 2 November post, Peng alleged that Zhang had forced her into sex after inviting her to his house to play tennis with him and his wife three years ago. She also said she and Zhang had previously had an on-off consensual relationship.
Peng also said in the post that she could provide no evidence to back her allegations, but was determined to speak out.
More British troops deployed to guard Polish border amid Belarus migrant crisis
About 100 soldiers from Royal Engineers reportedly being sent to help reinforce frontier
More British troops will be deployed to Poland's border with Belarus to help address the migrant crisis.
Thousands of migrants, mainly from the Middle East, have sought to cross into the European Union at the frontier between Poland and Belarus in recent weeks.
Belarus authorities cleared the main camps on Thursday where thousands of people had been huddling by the Polish border. Hundreds of Iraqis were also sent home on the first repatriation flight from Minsk in months.
COVID: Austria announces lockdown and vaccine mandate
The lockdown starts Monday and compulsory vaccines are set to begin in February. Data shows the seven-day incidence rate in the country at around 1,000 new cases per 100,000
Austrian Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg announced a full lockdown in Austria at a press conference Friday.
In addition, vaccinations will be mandatory from February 1 of next year. That makes Austria the first European country to introduce such a measure.
"We do not want a fifth wave," public broadcaster ORF quoted Schallenberg. "Nor do we want a sixth or seventh wave."
Hamas reacts with fury as Britain moves to ban group
UK Home Secretary Priti Patel is pushing to ban the Palestinian movement under the Terrorism Act.
Hamas has condemned a move by Britain towards banning the group as a terrorist organisation which could see supporters of the Palestinian movement face up to 14 years in prison.
Home Secretary Priti Patel, who will push for the ban in Parliament next week, argued on Friday that it was not possible to distinguish between Hamas’s political and military wings. She called Hamas “fundamentally and rabidly anti-Semitic”, adding the proscription was required to protect the Jewish community.
Hamas responded in a statement, saying: “Instead of apologising and correcting its historical sin against the Palestinian people … [Britain] supports the aggressors at the expense of the victims.”
What does Japan’s record $490 billion stimulus package look like?
REUTERS
November 19, 2021 at 19:35 JST
Japan is set to compile on Friday a record $490 billion spending package to cushion the economic blow from the COVID-19 pandemic, bucking a global trend towards withdrawing crisis-mode stimulus measures and adding strains to its already tattered finances.
The 56 trillion-yen ($490 billion) package, the first to be compiled by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, will reflect the premier’s focus on distributing more wealth to households. The government will announce details later on Friday.
No comments:
Post a Comment