The country’s equality council warns of high rates of sexual violence, says young generations worst affected. Five years into the #MeToo movement, French society “remains very sexist in all of its spheres”, a government-created equality watchdog says in its annual report. The High Council for Equality between Women and Men…
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Russian envoys are ordered to leave after Moscow said it was downgrading diplomatic relations with Tallinn. Russia and Estonia on Monday were expelling the ambassadors from each other’s countries in a tit-for-tat move, saying that their diplomatic missions will be headed by charges d’affaires as relations between the countries sank…
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The co-pilot of the ill-fated flight that crashed in Nepal on Sunday lost her husband in a plane crash 16 years earlier, it has emerged. Anju Khatiwada was co-piloting Yeti Airlines flight 691 when it smashed into a gorge near the tourist town of Pokhara, killing all on board in…
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A year ago, a US ban put the government in quite a quandary. Now the Bangladeshi foreign ministry fears that the ban may come again before the election. Similar restrictions may come on various BD government agencies and responsible persons for different reasons. All BD embassies and missions of Bangladesh…
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Electric car maker Tesla said it delivered a record 1.3 million vehicles last year, 40% more than in 2021. But the firm, led by billionaire Elon Musk, fell short of Wall Street sales forecasts for the final months of the year. The company’s shares sank by more than 12% on…
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Pressure is mounting on President Joe Biden to give further details about the classified documents found at his Delaware home and a Washington office he once used. An independent lawyer, or special counsel, has been appointed by the justice department to investigate whether these papers were mishandled. There are still…
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Russia’s military says it has captured the Ukrainian salt-mine town of Soledar after a long battle, calling it an “important” step for its offensive. The victory would allow Russian troops to push on to the nearby city of Bakhmut, and cut off the Ukrainian forces there, a spokesman said. This…
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For more than a century the scramble for oil unleashed wars, forced unusual alliances and sparked diplomatic rows. Now the world’s two biggest economies are battling over another precious resource: semiconductors, the chips that literally power our daily life. These tiny fragments of silicon are at the heart of a…
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Qatar is turning its attention to diversifying its economy away from gas. Qatar’s stock market is set to welcome its first initial public offering (IPO) in nearly three years in a test of new regulations that Doha has introduced, hoping to compete with more active exchanges in the region. IT…
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Pashinyan is increasingly frustrated by Russia’s failure to secure free transit along a corridor linking Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh. Armenia has refused to host military drills by the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO), a Russian-led alliance of post-Soviet countries, in an announcement that reflects Yerevan’s growing tensions with Moscow. Russia had…
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