Armenia recognises Palestinian statehood, says Armenian foreign ministryArmenia supports a United Nations resolution on an immediate ceasefire in Israel's war with Hamas in Gaza and is in favour of a two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, a ministry statement said.
https://www.reuters.com/world/armenia-recognises-palestinian-statehood-says-armenian-foreign-ministry-2024-06-21/Workers at a Levi's supplier factory in Turkey subjected to ‘violence, mass sackings and blacklisting’The report accuses Ozak Global, the provincial security forces and the company’s favoured union, of having been complicit in “violence, arrests and retaliatory mass firings against roughly 400 workers, after the majority of the facility’s workforce chose to join an independent union” since last November.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/workers-levis-supplier-factory-turkey-subjected-violence-mass-sackings-and-blacklisting Third consecutive day | Turkish forces continue to reinforce contact lines with regime forces within “Putin-Erdogan” area Yesterday, Turkish forces brought military reinforcements for the second consecutive day to “Putin-Erdogan” area, where a military convoy comprising 22 military machineries including tanks and armoured vehicles entered and headed to Turkish positions in Al-Zawiyah Mountain.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/336837/https://archive.is/YKlsALe Pen’s Party Gains Support in Poll; Macron Approval DropsA poll by Ifop-Fiducial for Sud Radio found that 38% of those interviewed want the National Rally to win, and increase of two points from June 10, the day after Macron announced a snap vote. An alliance of left parties, the New Popular Front, was in second place with 29% backing, unchanged. Support for Macron’s party and its allies rose to 22% from 18%.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-21/le-pen-s-party-gains-support-in-poll-macron-approval-dropshttps://archive.is/50jNSTata Steel workers call first strikes in 40 years to halt devastating job lossesSome 1,500 of its members based in Port Talbot and Llanwern, south Wales, will walk out on July 8 in the first British steelworkers strike in more than 40 years. The Indian conglomerate announced the job cuts alongside plans to close blast furnaces to switch to a greener form of production earlier this year. Britain’s largest steelworks’ furnaces are due to be switched off by September to be replaced with cleaner electric arc technology.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/tata-steel-workers-call-first-strikes-40-years-halt-devastating-job-lossesSouth Africa’s Democratic Alliance suspends MP for racist commentsA clip of Renaldo Gouws saying “Kill all the kaffirs” – a racial slur for black people – and then repeating the phrase using a swear word and the N-word, has gone viral online.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/20/south-africas-democratic-alliance-suspends-mp-for-racist-commentsNiger revokes French nuclear group’s licence at major uranium mineNiger’s military government has revoked the operating licence of French nuclear fuel producer Orano at one of the world’s biggest uranium mines, as it continues to cut ties with former colonial power France.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/21/niger-revokes-french-nuclear-groups-licence-at-major-uranium-minehttps://archive.is/EjC0ZArgentina’s president promises to quash corruption then shocks with his Supreme Court pickSince its formation in 1999, the magistrates council, Argentina’s top judicial watchdog, has encountered just two Buenos Aires federal judges dogged by more complaints of misconduct than Lijo, who has faced 32 formal denunciations in his 20-year career, Argentina’s Civic Association for Equality and Justice (ACIJ) found. In the past year, Lijo has faced five impeachment requests, unrivaled in his court.
https://apnews.com/article/argentina-supreme-court-appointment-president-corruption-920b3ff0a501e7072ef00f17c95e24f3Built as ‘temporary’ wartime huts, owners are being forced to preserve these crumbling Brisbane homes He’d nearly finished replacing the modern vinyl cladding of his house – added by a previous owner – changing it back to weatherboard. But the temporary heritage order by Brisbane city council meant he was forced to down tools. The better part of two years later, part of the old wall – and the old asbestos – is still there.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jun/22/built-as-temporary-wartime-huts-owners-are-being-forced-to-preserve-these-crumbling-brisbane-homesIndia's Modi criticised for exam irregularities amid lack of jobsIndia's opposition parties and the country's students on Thursday hit out at the new government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi for irregularities in recent government-run tests for college admissions and government teaching jobs.
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/indias-modi-criticised-exam-irregularities-amid-lack-jobs-2024-06-20/Sri Lanka loses 10 percent of its doctors amid exodus after economic crisisThe effects on the country’s already fragile healthcare system are visible. In April last year, all emergency surgeries were suspended for several weeks in the District General Hospital in Embilipitiya, about 200km (120 miles) south of Colombo, after two anaesthesiologists there left the country. As a temporary measure, another anaesthesiologist from a nearby hospital was moved there, but she has since also left for overseas training.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/6/20/fed-up-doctor-exodus-bleeds-sri-lankas-healthcare-after-economic-crisis\https://archive.is/kfv7N