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The Canada Industrial Relations Board declared Monday that the strike organized by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) and Air Canada flight attendants is unlawful. The union has continued to strike despite the declaration. Upon Air Canada’s application, the federal labor board reviewed the union’s public statements and found that the union had no [...]

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HRW on Monday called for the government of Senegal to provide adequate housing to a community displaced by rising sea levels, saying that 1,000 residents have lived in temporary housing, isolated and cut off from many services, since 2016. The group called on the World Bank to improve how it consults with communities that are [...]

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Human Rights Watch (HRW) stated on Monday that law enforcement officers used “excessive force and deliberate brutality” in response to protests against immigration raids in Los Angeles, California, from June 6 to 14. According to HRW, while the protests had largely been peaceful, the law enforcement officers frequently used a range of “less lethal” weapons, [...]

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Newsmax has agreed to pay $67 million to settle a defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems over false claims about the 2020 election, the conservative cable network announced Monday. Dominion was one of several voting machine and election technology companies that helped facilitate voting in 2020, a year when in-person voting was limited by [...]

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Amnesty International on Monday condemned Israel’s starvation of Palestinians in Gaza, claiming that this is the outcome of a deliberate Israeli policy. According to Amnesty International, the levels of hunger and disease reached in Gaza are not merely a result of Israel’s military operations, but a deliberate policy of genocide against the Palestinians. Erika Guevara [...]

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Hundreds of people demonstrated Saturday in the southern Syrian city of Sweida, pressing for the self-determination of the Druze people. Protesters demanded full independence from Syria, dismissing ideas of federalism or autonomy as inadequate. Speakers at the protest argued that statehood would guarantee their security, citing recent episodes of violence as evidence that inter-ethnic coexistence [...]

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Canada’s federal government has ordered Air Canada flight attendants back to work after a breakdown in collective bargaining talks between the airline and the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). Patty Hajdu, Minister of Jobs and Families and chief of the Federal Economic Development Agency for Northern Ontario, announced the decision on Saturday, citing the [...]

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The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in a split decision Friday held that the US government’s mass layoffs of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFBP) employees are within its executive powers, vacating a preliminary injunction. In the majority opinion, District of Columbia Circuit Judge Gregory Katsas held that all claims by the [...]

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The People’s Republic of China on Friday called on Cambodia and Thailand to deepen dialogue and restore mutual trust following recent border clashes, emphasizing the importance of stability for the two neighbors and the wider region. Speaking during a Thursday tea gathering in Anning, Yunnan province, with Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Prak [...]

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London’s Metropolitan Police on Friday announced that over 60 people will be prosecuted for supporting the proscribed Palestine Action group, in the wake of multiple arrests at a demonstration led by the group earlier this month. Stephen Parkinson, director of Public Prosecutions, said that while the public has a democratic right to peacefully protest the [...]

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