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Centre-right coalition beats mogul PM in Czech vote
AFP, Published on 10/10/2021
» PRAGUE - Prime Minister Andrej Babis narrowly lost a cliffhanger general election to a centre-right alliance on Saturday, final results showed, in a surprise reversal for the billionaire populist.
'World's happiest country' seeks migrants
AFP, Published on 22/06/2021
» HELSINKI: Repeatedly dubbed the happiest nation on the planet with world-beating living standards, Finland should be deluged by people wanting to relocate, but in fact it faces an acute workforce shortage.
China allows couples to have three children as birthrate falls
AFP, Published on 31/05/2021
» BEIJING - China will allow couples to have three children after a census showed its population is rapidly ageing, state media said Monday, further unwinding four decades of strict family planning controls in the world's most populous nation.
Chileans vote for body to rewrite dictatorship-era constitution
AFP, Published on 16/05/2021
» SANTIAGO: Chileans head to the polls Sunday in a second day of voting to elect 155 people who will rewrite the country's dictatorship-era constitution in a bid to address deep-seated social inequality that gave rise to deadly protests in 2019.
Uber wins praise for granting UK drivers worker status
AFP, Published on 17/03/2021
» LONDON: US ride-hailing giant Uber won praise Wednesday from Britain's government and trade unions after granting UK drivers worker status, sparking hopes that more tech firms will follow suit.
$1.9-trillion Covid plan to pass without wage hike
AFP, Published on 27/02/2021
» WASHINGTON: House Democrats were poised late Friday to pass US President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion Covid relief package by a narrow margin despite a Senate ruling that the final version will not include a minimum wage hike.
Myanmar's civil servant strikes start to bite
AFP, Published on 26/02/2021
» YANGON - Public hospitals are deserted. Government offices left dark. And the trains don't leave the stations.
Myanmar's military coup creates banking woes
AFP, Published on 24/02/2021
» YANGON: Early bird customers of a military-owned bank queued anxiously as dawn light crept over Rangoon, after a strict new limit on daily cash withdrawals fuelled rumours of a money shortage in post-coup Myanmar.
From protest to ballot box, Chile votes in referendum for change
AFP, Published on 25/10/2020
» SANTIAGO - A year to the day after more than one million people thronged downtown Santiago in the biggest march of Chile's social uprising, Chileans vote Sunday on whether to change the country's dictatorship-era constitution.
Tajikistan vote seen as easy win for strongman
AFP, Published on 11/10/2020
» DUSHANBE (TAJIKISTAN) - Central Asian Tajikistan goes to the polls Sunday in a presidential election expected to make incumbent Emomali Rakhmon the longest-ruling strongman in the former Soviet space.