Bangladesh court scraps job quotas after deadly unrest
By BBC Bangla, Ethirajan Anbarasan and Tom McArthur, BBC News, Dhaka and London
Bangladesh's top court has scrapped most of the quotas on government jobs that had sparked violent clashes across the country that have killed more than 100 people.
A third of public sector jobs had been reserved for the relatives of veterans from the country’s war for independence from Pakistan in 1971.
But now the court has ruled just 5% of the roles can be reserved for veterans' relatives.
Law Minister Anisul Huq said the government would implement the ruling within days. Some student leaders have vowed to continue protesting.
Indonesians who paid thousands to work on UK farm sacked within weeks
Exclusive: Several sent home for slow fruit picking face debts as watchdog investigates alleged illegal fees
Indonesian workers who paid thousands of pounds to travel to Britain and pick fruit at a farm supplying most big supermarkets have been sent home within weeks for not picking fast enough.
One of the workers said he had sold his family’s land, as well as his and his parents’ motorbikes, to cover the more than £2,000 cost of coming to Britain in May and was distressed to find himself unemployed with few possessions.
Philippines and China reach South China Sea 'arrangement'
Manila announced the deal over supplies to the disputed Second Thomas Shoal, saying both sides recognized the need to ease tensions in the South China Sea.
China and the Philippines have reached a deal they hope will end confrontations at a fiercely contested atoll in the South China Sea.
"The Philippines and the People's Republic of China have reached an understanding on the provisional arrangement for the resupply of daily necessities and rotation missions to the BRP Sierra Madre in Ayungin Shoal," the Philippine Foreign Ministry said Sunday, using the Filipino name for Second Thomas Shoal.
The Philippines occupies the Second Thomas Shoal, but China also claims it.
From money and politics to dirty water: Paris’s long and winding road to the Olympics
Paris's road to the 2024 Olympics has been anything but plain sailing. From political bickering, to last minute sponsors and nail-biting suspense over the cleanliness of the Seine river, the Games – held exactly 100 years since Paris last hosted the event – “must be a success”, an Olympic source confided.
The seven-year odyssey of the Paris Olympics should reach shore after a spectacular but hopefully serene opening cruise down the Seine on Friday at the end of a voyage that has survived rocky political moments.
Following the horse-trading to win the Games, came the French infighting over how to host them.
Paris was not sure it wanted to risk another rebuff after losing its 2005 bid for the 2012 Games to a London bid that the French believed inferior.
After the 2015 terror attacks on the French capital, Anne Hidalgo, elected Paris mayor in 2014, decided the city needed to act to rebound from the trauma.
U.S.-Japan Patriot missile production plan hits Boeing component roadblock
REUTERS
A U.S. plan to use Japanese factories to boost production of Patriot air defense missiles - used by Ukraine to defend against Russian attacks - is being delayed by a shortage of a critical component manufactured by Boeing, four sources said.
Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) already makes about 30 PAC-3 missiles each year under license from defense contractor Lockheed Martin and can increase that number to about 60, two Japanese government officials and two industry sources told Reuters.
The U.S. hopes to increase production from about 500 a year to more than 750 per year globally as soon as possible, a person familiar with the program said. But no expansion at all will be possible in Japan without additional supplies of the missiles' seekers, which guide them in the final stages of flight, the officials and industry sources said.
Afghanistan - wish you were here? The Taliban do
By Flora Drury, BBC News
When it comes to planning a holiday, Afghanistan is not at the top of most people’s must-visit lists.
Decades of conflict mean that few tourists dared step foot in the Central Asian nation since its heyday as part of the hippie trail in the 1970s. And the future of whatever tourism industry had survived was thrust into further uncertainty by the Taliban’s return to power in 2021.
But a quick scroll through social media suggests that not only has tourism survived, it has - in its own, extraordinarily niche way - boomed.
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