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New pension protests in France ahead of crucial votes

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New pension protests in France ahead of crucial votes
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Spread the love France faced another day of protests Sunday against a bitterly contested pension reform rammed through by President Emmanuel Macron’s government, a day before crucial no-confidence votes in parliament. After weeks of peaceful strikes and marches against raising the official retirement age from 62 to 64, police on Saturday closed the Place de la Concorde opposite parliament for demonstrations following two successive nights of clashes. Some individual lawmakers were targeted, with Eric Ciotti — chief of the conservative Republicans party expected not to back the no-confidence motions —…

Labour steps up attack on Hunt’s pensions tax break

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Labour steps up attack on Hunt’s pensions tax break
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Spread the love For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Labour has stepped up pressure on Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt to drop changes to pension allowances that fail to benefit the “vast majority” of Britons. The Opposition has said it will reverse the Chancellor’s Budget pensions tax break for high earners if it gains power at the next general election. Mr Hunt believes the abolition of the lifetime allowance, forecast…

US releases a third of electronics detained under China forced labour law, data shows

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US releases a third of electronics detained under China forced labour law, data shows
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Spread the love US customs officials have released more than a third of the electronic equipment, including solar panels, detained since last year under a new law meant to weed out products made with forced labour, according to data released on Tuesday (Mar 14). The release of the new data dashboard by US Customs and Border Protection comes a week after Reuters reported that US imports of solar panels are finally picking up after months of gridlock stemming from implementation of the Uyghur Forced Labor Protection Act. The stalled imports…

Seoul to compensate Japan wartime forced labour victims – SUCH TV

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Seoul to compensate Japan wartime forced labour victims - SUCH TV
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Spread the love South Korea announced plans on Monday to compensate victims of Japan’s forced wartime labour, aiming to end a “vicious cycle” in the Asian powers’ relations and boost ties to counter the nuclear-armed North. Japan and the United States immediately welcomed the announcement, but victims’ groups said it fell far short of their demand for a full apology from Tokyo and direct compensation from the Japanese companies involved. Seoul and Tokyo have ramped up security cooperation in the face of growing threats from Kim Jong Un’s North Korea,…

UK MPs to grill Johnson over damning ‘Partygate’ report

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UK MPs to grill Johnson over damning ‘Partygate’ report
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Spread the love UK lawmakers announced on Friday they will question former prime minister Boris Johnson over whether he lied about “Partygate”, in a probe that could trigger his removal as a member of parliament. In an interim report released after eight months of work, parliament’s “privileges” committee said the evidence so far undermined Johnson’s pleas of innocence to the House of Commons. “The evidence strongly suggests that breaches of (lockdown) guidance would have been obvious to Mr Johnson at the time he was at the gatherings,” the report stated.…

Nigeria election 2023: Opposition PDP and Labour call for poll to be scrapped

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Nigeria election 2023: Opposition PDP and Labour call for poll to be scrapped
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Spread the love The PDP representative at the election centre in the capital, Abuja, described the process as fraudulent, and accused the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) of colluding with Inec. The Labour Party asked for the announcements to be suspended, or for the election to be cancelled and rerun. Source link

Labour of Love: Macaulay McGowan is working hard ahead of Paris date – Boxing News

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Labour of Love: Macaulay McGowan is working hard ahead of Paris date - Boxing News
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Spread the love THE last time Manchester’s Macaulay McGowan boxed outside of Britain he found himself in Madrid, Spain going 10 rounds with former world middleweight champion Sergio Martinez. Next, in a fight not half as glamorous but no less important, he will on March 11 embark on a trip to another iconic European city in the form of Paris, where McGowan is scheduled to meet the unbeaten Farrhad Saad, 8-0-1 (0), on Boxxer’s very first non-UK show (headlined by Tony Yoka vs. Carlos Takam). “Joe (Gallagher, trainer) put it…