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Canada Post strike: Minister seeks order to get workers back on the job – National
13Dec By Aditi PawarNo Comments
Politics

Canada Post strike: Minister seeks order to get workers back on the job – National

Amid the ongoing Canada Post strike, federal Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon announced Friday that he is asking the Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) to order workers back on the job if it agrees with his determination there is an “impasse” in negotiations. If the CIRB agrees, MacKinnon says the labour relations board would order Canada Post and all employees represented by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers to resume operations and extend the terms of the existing collective agreements until May 2025.“Not only have the parties been unable to show any progress towards an agreement, the federal mediator has now informed me that the negotiations between both parties are now, in fact, going in the wrong direction,” he said during a Friday media conference.“So I’m here today to annou...
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Children among dead after more than 30 killed in Israeli strike on Nuseirat, health authorities in Gaza say | World News
13Dec By Aditi PawarNo Comments
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Children among dead after more than 30 killed in Israeli strike on Nuseirat, health authorities in Gaza say | World News

Children are among the dead after an Israeli airstrike on a block of flats in a Gaza refugee camp killed at least 33 people, according to Hamas-run health authorities.The attack - which Israel said targeted a "senior terrorist" but may have caused a secondary blast - came hours after the US national security adviser raised hopes of a ceasefire deal.More than 80 people are said to be missing after the attack in Nuseirat camp on Thursday night.Syria latest: Prison boss charged with torturePalestinian medics also reported more than 40 people, most of them children, were receiving treatment at two hospitals, according to the Reuters news agency.Images from the scene show a collapsed building, which Reuters reports was a post office used as a shelter.The al Aqsa Hospital said the attack also da...
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Chinese associate of Prince Andrew banned from UK as national security risk
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World News

Chinese associate of Prince Andrew banned from UK as national security risk

By Sam Tobin and Michael Holden, Reuters Prince Andrew forged close ties with a businessman reportedly linked to the Chinese Communist Party and the United Front Work Department. Photo: ADRIAN DENNIS / AFP Security ban on Chinese businessman emerges in ruling Officials say businessman and Prince Andrew had close links Man hid ties to China's Communist Party, officials say A Chinese businessman who had forged close links with Prince Andrew and was authorised to act on his behalf to seek investors in China has been banned from Britain on national security grounds. The 50-year-old man, who has been granted anonymity and is named only as H6, was taken off a flight from Beijing to London in February 2023 and told that Britain intended to ban him from the country. This happened the ...
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US charges North Koreans in £70m identity theft case | World News
13Dec By Aditi PawarNo Comments
Business

US charges North Koreans in £70m identity theft case | World News

Fourteen North Korean nationals have been accused of using false identities to get IT jobs with US companies and siphon money back to their communist country.The practice, if proven, is in violation of US sanctions against the restrictive nation. An indictment filed in a federal court in Missouri alleges that $88m (£70m) was generated for the North Korean government between April 2017 and March 2023.Some of the revenue was used to support the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's (DPRK) weapons programmes, according to government departments including the FBI.The workers "misrepresent themselves" as foreign or US-based teleworkers, the indictment said. Image: Pic: FBI Ashley T Johnson, special agent in charge of the FBI ...
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Indian actor held after stampede death at film screening
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Indian actor held after stampede death at film screening

Allu Arjun in 'Pushpa 2: The Rule'. Photo: AR Film Studio / Muttamsetty Med An Indian actor has been arrested after his appearance at a movie screening allegedly prompted a stampede by fans that crushed a woman to death, police and local media said. Huge crowds had gathered at a theatre in the southern city of Hyderabad this month to catch a glimpse of actor Allu Arjun as he arrived for the screening of his film Pushpa 2: The Rule. The 42-year-old actor was arrested on suspicion of three offences, including voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons or means, a police officer told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to speak to media. The officer added that seven other people had already been arrested in the case. A video on social media platform ...
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British hedge fund manager Sanjay Shah given 12-year jail term in Denmark over £1bn tax fraud | UK News
13Dec By Aditi PawarNo Comments
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British hedge fund manager Sanjay Shah given 12-year jail term in Denmark over £1bn tax fraud | UK News

A British hedge funder trader has been sentenced to 12 years in prison in Denmark over a £1bn tax fraud. Sanjay Shah, 54, was behind a trading scheme known as "cum-ex" that was found to have fraudulently secured 9bn Danish Krone (£1bn) in dividend tax refunds from the Danish treasury between 2012 and 2015. Shah, who appeared in court wearing a red Christmas hat, denied any wrongdoing, arguing he used a legal loophole and immediately appealed the guilty verdict to the Danish High Court.Prosecutors sought the maximum 12-year sentence, which is one of the longest for tax fraud in the country's history.Shah was arrested in Dubai in 2022 and extradited to Denmark the following year to face prosecution. Prosecutors said investors, directed by Shah's London-based hedge fund Solo Capital Partners,...
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Assad’s final hours in Syria: Deception, despair and flight
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Assad’s final hours in Syria: Deception, despair and flight

By Samia Nakhoul, Maya Gebeily, Parisa Hafezi and Suleiman Al-Khalidi, Reuters Bashar al-Assad's flight from Syria ended more than half a century of his family's rule. Photo: AFP / Valery Sharifulin / Pool Assad's secret escape blindsided almost everyone, aides say He deceived army brass, saying Russian help on way - sources Leader kept plans from brother and cousins, officials say Russia secured Assad's passage, ending 50-year family rule Bashar al-Assad confided in almost no one about his plans to flee Syria as his reign collapsed. Instead, aides, officials and even relatives were deceived or kept in the dark, more than a dozen people with knowledge of the events told Reuters. Hours before he escaped for Moscow, Assad assured a meeting of about 30 army and security chiefs at ...
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Early-onset colon cancer cases surge globally but lowest in India: Study
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Health

Early-onset colon cancer cases surge globally but lowest in India: Study

The early-onset colorectal cancer (CRC), also known as colon cancer, incidence rates among adults aged 25-49 are rising across the globe, but India shows the lowest rate among 50 countries, according to a new study.  The research, published in the journal The Lancet Oncology, showed early-onset CRC are rising in 27 of 50 countries/territories worldwide. Of these 20 have seen a faster rise in early-onset. In 14 other countries, including the US, rates are increasing in young adults while stabilising in those 50 years and older. India, on the other hand, has shown the lowest incidence rate both in terms of early onset and among older adults. “The increase in early-onset colorectal cancer is a global phenomenon,” said lead author Dr. Hyuna Sung, senior principal scientist, of cancer survei...
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Widow, 28, acquitted of murdering Japan’s self-proclaimed 77-year-old ‘Don Juan’ | World News
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Widow, 28, acquitted of murdering Japan’s self-proclaimed 77-year-old ‘Don Juan’ | World News

A 28-year-old woman has been found not guilty of murdering her wealthy 77-year-old husband who styled himself as a Japanese Don Juan.Saki Sudo was charged after Kosuke Nozaki was found dead at his home in Tanabe City from a drug overdose in May 2018.The pair had wed just three months earlier, and she received a monthly allowance of one million yen (£5,170) from him, the Kyodo news agency reported.Prosecutors accused her of marrying Mr Nozaki and then drugging him to inherit his fortune.The young widow denied murder. Image: Mr Nozaki's home in Tanabe City where he was found dead. Pic: The Yomiuri Shimbun /AP Sudo was the only person with Mr Nozaki at the time he took the drugs, prosecutors said, arguing that it was unlikely ...
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Former Everton player sentenced to 20 years for bribery | World News
13Dec By Aditi PawarNo Comments
Business

Former Everton player sentenced to 20 years for bribery | World News

A former Premier League footballer has been jailed for 20 years for bribery, Chinese state media has reported.Li Tie, who played in midfield for Everton more than 30 times between 2002 and 2006, went on to manage the China national team between January 2020 and December 2021. It is alleged the 47-year-old received bribes of more than 50 million yuan (£5.4m).He was found guilty of "leveraging his positions" as head coach of the national football and national selection teams by a court in the city of Xianning.Li Tie was also charged with taking bribes between 2015 and 2019 while working for local football clubs. He pleaded guilty to bribery and corruption in March following an investigation which began in November 2022.Read more from Sky News:Economy in shock decline during OctoberRoyal Mail...
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