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$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.
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.
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.
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.
'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.
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.
Chileans to elect new president in fast-changing political landscape
AFP, Published on 21/11/2021
» SANTIAGO - Chileans head to the ballot box for the fourth time in 18 months Sunday, this time to elect a new president on whose watch the country will draft its first post-dictatorship constitution.
Stocks soar after Chileans vote for polar opposite presidential candidates
AFP, Published on 23/11/2021
» SANTIAGO - Santiago's stock market surged Monday after a far-right fiscal conservative and a left-wing former student activist dominated Chile's presidential election and will vie next month to become the South American country's new leader.
Sweden's parliament set to elect first woman PM
AFP, Published on 24/11/2021
» STOCKHOLM - Sweden's parliament looks set to elect Finance Minister Magdalena Andersson as the country's first woman prime minister on Wednesday, hours after she clinched a last-minute deal securing key support.
Sweden's Andersson elected as nation's first woman PM
AFP, Published on 24/11/2021
» STOCKHOLM: Sweden's parliament on Wednesday elected Social Democratic party leader and current Finance Minister Magdalena Andersson as the country's first woman prime minister, after she clinched a last-minute deal securing key support.