The Ukrainian parliament has passed a new law to strengthen the status of the English language in the Eastern European country. A good command of English will be a prerequisite for many Ukrainian civil servants in the future, the parliament in Kiev decided on Tuesday. A higher level of English is intended to make the […]
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TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Georgia’s ruling party introduced a bill Tuesday that would restrict LGBTQ+ rights. The Georgian Dream proposals are similar to laws enacted in Russia and follow authorities passing another law that critics say borrows from Moscow’s playbook: the “Foreign Influence” law. It sparked weeks of mass protests and was widely criticized for
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Incumbent Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party has declared victory in India’s parliamentary elections, but with most votes counted, his Hindu nationalist party will lose its parliamentary majority, according to preliminary results. The country’s people had “expressed their confidence in his ruling coalition for the third time in a row,” Modi wrote on social media platform
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Rio Tinto RIO has announced it will invest $143 million to develop a research and development facility in Western Australia to test the effectiveness of its breakthrough low-carbon ironmaking process, BioIron. BioIron uses raw biomass material produced from agricultural by-products instead of metallurgical coal and is heated using a combination of gas released from the
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Following the passage of a Russian law against foreign influence, Georgia’s leadership also wants to restrict the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in a similar way to Russia. The ruling Georgian Dream party has submitted a package of laws to parliament under the heading “Family values and the protection of minors,”
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China and Hong Kong responded on Tuesday to the 35th anniversary of the bloody crackdown on Beijing’s Tiananmen Square protests with an increased police presence. Soldiers were stationed at key bridges in the Chinese capital on Tuesday. Anyone wanting to enter Tiananmen Square in the heart of Beijing had to go through several strict passport
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The Palestinians plan to join South Africa’s genocide case against Israel that is currently pending at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The Palestinian Foreign Ministry in Ramallah has filed a request to join the case, the court in The Hague announced Monday evening. The ministry requested this on behalf of Palestine, which is not
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi greets supporters as he arrives at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) headquarters in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, June 4, 2024. Credit – Manish Swarup – AP Photo PPolitical pundits and exit polls were quick to predict that Narendra Modi was set to serve a third term as India’s prime minister in
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Red and yellow China’s latest visit to the moon is already proving to be a great success. On Sunday, the country’s Chang’e-6 lunar lander landed on the far side of the moon in the South Pole-Aitken Basin, scooping up samples shortly afterwards. And then, earlier today, the probe took off on its long return to
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