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Italy holds referendum on citizenship, workers' rights
AFP, Published on 08/06/2025
» ROME - Italians vote on Sunday and Monday in a referendum on easing citizenship rules and strengthening labour laws, with Giorgia Meloni's government opposing both changes and urging people to abstain.
Target of the right, George Soros hands reins to son
AFP, Published on 13/06/2023
» NEW YORK: As George Soros passes control of his philanthropic empire to his son, the legendary investor and democracy advocate remains subject to unrelenting and often anti-Semitic attacks from the right.
Singapore breaks down Covid deaths by vaccine
Bloomberg News, Published on 10/01/2022
» Singapore's health minister Ong Ye Kung said vaccines that are available in the country have been far more effective than doing nothing at all, as he implored holdouts to get inoculated in the face of an expected wave of the Omicron coronavirus variant.
Couple make history with N.Ireland's first same-sex marriage
AFP, Published on 11/02/2020
» CARRICKFERGUS (UNITED KINGDOM) - A Belfast couple on Tuesday made history by becoming the first same-sex couple to get married in Northern Ireland, following a landmark change in the law last year.
Blast at Ethiopian PM's rally sparks panic
AFP, Published on 23/06/2018
» ADDIS ABABA - A small blast sparked panic at a public rally for Ethiopia's new Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed attended by tens of thousands of people on Saturday, an AFP journalist said.
N.Ireland under pressure to legalise abortion
AFP, Published on 27/05/2018
» DUBLIN: Pressure mounted on Sunday for British-ruled Northern Ireland to liberalise its strict abortion laws after a historic referendum in the neighbouring Republic of Ireland overturned its ban.
Ireland set to repeal abortion ban by a landslide
AFP, Published on 26/05/2018
» DUBLIN - Ireland was set to liberalise some of Europe's strictest abortion laws in a landslide referendum vote in this mainly Catholic country that Prime Minister Leo Varadkar called Saturday the "culmination of a quiet revolution".
Ireland decides on its strict abortion laws
AFP, Published on 25/05/2018
» DUBLIN - Irish voters are heading to the polls on Friday to vote in a landmark referendum on whether the country should liberalise some of the strictest abortion laws in Europe.
Irish anti-abortion activists rally ahead of referendum
AFP, Published on 13/05/2018
» DUBLIN - Thousands gathered in Dublin on Saturday for the final major pro-life rally ahead of Ireland's referendum on whether it should liberalise its tight abortion laws.
Critical US-China trade talks end in Beijing
AFP, Published on 04/05/2018
» BEIJING - China and the US ended the second day of high-stakes trade talks Friday with "big differences", Beijing said, leaving the world's two largest economies on the brink of a trade war that could have knock-on effects on the global economy.