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Low-paid women still waiting for their #MeToo moment
AFP, Published on 25/09/2025
» BORDEAUX, France - “You need the work,” one woman said, “so you shut your mouth.” #MeToo may have helped change the landscape for women in Hollywood and in the boardroom, but cleaners, secretaries and supermarket workers who have suffered sexual violence at work say it has yet to do much for them.
Fires, strikes, pandemic and AI: Hollywood workers can't catch a break
AFP, Published on 25/02/2025
» BURBANK (UNITED STATES) - Dutch Merrick isn't really in a party mood for this year's Oscars.
Bangladesh garment factories firing workers after protests
Reuters, Published on 28/12/2023
» DHAKA - Bangladesh garment factories have fired hundreds of workers since protests in October demanding higher wages, three labour unions representing half a million workers told Reuters this week, while many others are on the run fearing arrest.
French war photographer Marie-Laure de Decker dead at 75
AFP, Published on 16/07/2023
» PARIS - Marie-Laure de Decker, the French model who stepped behind the camera to become an internationally recognised war photographer, has died at the age of 75, her family said Saturday.
Bayern Munich make Tuchel new coach after Nagelsmann firing
AFP, Published on 25/03/2023
» MUNICH (GERMANY) - Bayern Munich announced Friday they had appointed former Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain coach Thomas Tuchel as their new boss after firing Julian Nagelsmann.
All-out drone war in Ukraine points to future
AFP, Published on 13/01/2023
» WASHINGTON - Deployed on a scale never seen before to carry out both surveillance and strikes, drones ranging from small commercially-available models to larger aircraft have become a defining feature of the Ukraine conflict.
Study: 96% of humans have 'felt' global warming
AFP, Published on 28/10/2022
» PARIS: Whether they realised it or not, some 7.6 billion people — 96%t of humanity — felt global warming's impact on temperatures over the last 12 months, researchers have said.
Ex-inmates decry worsening state of New York's 'hellhole' jail
AFP, Published on 19/09/2021
» NEW YORK - It's held disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein, rapper Tupac Shakur and ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn: New York's notorious Rikers Island prison is now under intense scrutiny over the deaths of at least nine inmates this year.
Myanmar ambassador, who opposed coup, is target of assassination plot
New York Times, Published on 07/08/2021
» NEW YORK: Two Myanmar citizens living in New York plotted over the past month to attack and potentially kill the country’s ambassador to the United Nations who resides in Westchester County, federal prosecutors in Manhattan said Friday.
EU, US agree to five-year truce in Boeing-Airbus dispute
Bloomberg News, Published on 15/06/2021
» The US and the European Union agreed to extend a tariff truce for five years, parking a dispute over aircraft subsidies given to Airbus SE and Boeing Co that saw the allies impose duties on $11.5 billion of each other’s exports.