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Canadian government launches consultation on right to repair

The Canadian government has announced its commitment to improving Canadians’ ability to repair products such as household appliances and consumer electronics through a new consultation. The consultation will serve to gather citizen feedback to support the development of a federal policy approach to the right to repair or repairability in Canada. The focus will be […]

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Exposing Afghanistan’s Pervasive, Methodical System of Gender Oppression – Global Issues

Education Cannot Wait’s #AfghanGirlsVoices global campaign highlights real-life testimonies of hope, courage and resilience by Afghan girls who have been denied their right to education. Credit: ECW by Joyce Chimbi (Nairobi) Monday July 1, 2024 Inter-Press Service NAIROBI, Jul 1 (IPS) – The annual report of the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan

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Rocket fire launched at Israel as fighting rages in Gaza City

The Israeli military reports that Palestinian armed groups in Gaza have fired about 20 rockets at Israeli border communities. It is the most serious attack in months. A number of projectiles were intercepted and others landed in southern Israel, but no injuries were reported. The army said it responded with artillery fire. Palestinian Islamic Jihad

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Mexico struggles to cut emissions from its ports — Global Issues

The port of Manzanillo, in the western state of Colima, located on the Pacific coast, receives the largest amount of sea freight in Mexico and emits the largest amount of pollutant gases, despite environmental measures introduced in recent years. Credit: IDB by Emilio Godoy (peace, mexico) Monday, July 1, 2024 Inter-Press Office LA PAZ, Mexico,

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German far-right leader convicted again for using banned Nazi slogan

The incendiary regional leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the German state of Thuringia, Björn Höcke, has been convicted and fined again for using a banned Nazi slogan. Höcke, 52, was found guilty of using signals of unconstitutional and terrorist organizations to lead a crowd in chanting the banned motto of the

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Samsung Electronics union in South Korea announces general strike

By Ju-min Park and Heekyong Yang SEOUL (Reuters) – A workers’ union at South Korea’s Samsung Electronics said on Monday it would launch a general strike until its demands for better pay and time off were met, warning of more damaging actions against the country’s most powerful conglomerate than its own one-day strike last month.

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Le Pen’s French election victory is the will of the voters

The Kremlin has interpreted the victory of Marine Le Pen’s far-right nationalist Rassemblement National (RN) and its allies in the first round of France’s parliamentary elections as a clear sign of the will of voters. “We are certainly following the elections very closely. Whatwe have seen this before in a number of European countries, includingFrance,

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Photo shows highway junction in Chinese province, not the new ring road in Ethiopia

In June 2024, a mega-road project was announced in Ethiopia’s Oromia region to connect cities around the capital Addis Ababa. Posts shared on Facebook the same day claimed to show the design of the new Sheger urban highway. However, the photo was taken in China and shows a section of the Xiangyang-Shiyan Expressway in Hubei

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French far-right seeks to convert election gains into power, rivals want to stop it in a decisive vote

PARIS (AP) — With the final outcome still up in the air, The French National Rally is strongly against immigration and opponents of the long-taboo far-right party tried Monday to take advantage of the inconclusive first round of voting in the surprise parliamentary elections the day before. Round one brought the National Rally closer than

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German court convicts prominent far-right politician for reusing Nazi slogan

BERLIN (AP) — A high-profile politician from the far-right Alternative for Germany party was convicted for the second time Monday for knowingly using a Nazi slogan at a political event. Björn Höcke, who plans to run for governor of the eastern state of Thuringia in September, was fined for using the banned Nazi slogan “Everything

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