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Nepal is expecting around 500,000 people who have lost their jobs abroad to return home, mainly from the Middle East and Malaysia
World
20.08.2024
Millions of migrant workers head home due to virus: UN
Live-in domestic staff have no protection under Lebanese labour law and cannot resign without permission, leaving them at the mercy of their employers
World
20.08.2024
'End neo-slavery': Lebanon maid abandonment sparks outrage
Homosexuality is widely criminalised in sub-Saharan Africa
World
20.08.2024
Bill to decriminalise homosexuality makes headway in Gabon
Lee Hsien Yang is locked in a long-running row with his sibling, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong
World
20.08.2024
Singapore PM's brother joins opposition before polls
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Beijing authorities have said a cluster of coronavirus infections linked to a wholesale food market is 'under control' after mass testing and containment measures
World 20.08.2024
Beijing officials declare outbreak 'under control'
Two-horse race: Malawian President Peter Mutharika and challenger Lazarus Chakwera
World 20.08.2024
Malawi calls for calm as it tallies presidential re-run votes
Hardship: Birtukan Mekuanint, 23, says she was trapped and exploited after she went to work in Lebanon as a maid
World 20.08.2024
'No-one wants to stay': Ethiopia under pressure to rescue maids in Lebanon
Jean-Baptiste Colbert was responsible for drawing up the notorious Code Noir (Black Code) governing slavery in the French empire
World 20.08.2024
Top French historian slams Macron's hardline stance on statues
Flag-wrapped coffins containing the remains of nearly 150 South Koreans killed in the Korean War were flown back to Seoul
World 20.08.2024
South Korean soldiers' remains repatriated decades after war
Lawyer Carlo della Vedova, who defended American Amanda Knox when she was tried for the murder of her British housemate, says Rome's criminal chamber is trying to find a solution
World 20.08.2024
Italy lawyers slam 'dangerous' media blackout at trials
Thai activists unveil a replica of bronze plaque marking the anniversary of the 1932 revolution. The original mysteriously vanished in 2017
World 20.08.2024
Pro-democracy protests mark anniversary of Thai revolution
Canada arrested Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver on a US warrant alleging use of a covert subsidiary to sell to Iran in breach of US sanctions in 2018
World 20.08.2024
Halt extradition of Huawei exec says former Canada Supreme Court Justice
Tehran has expressed disappointment that the UN watchdog has not given it more credit for keeping all of its current nuclear sites open to inspection despite US President Donald Trump's unilateral abandonment of a 2015 nuclear deal
World 20.08.2024
Iran's Rouhani says UN watchdog risks losing independence
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