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101 East investigates the fate of India’s female sugarcane workers and asks why so many are having invasive surgery.

“What residential school was, and still is, is a nightmare.” For more than a century, Indigenous children in Canada were taken from their homes and sent to residential schools to forcibly assimilate them into white society. And thousands were never seen again. Now, more than 20 years after the last …

The deal will cut red tape for businesses, end tariffs on UK exports, and create new opportunities for tech and services companies, according to a Downing Street statement. Prime ministers Boris Johnson and Jacinda Ardern sealed the deal in a joint Zoom call, following 16 months of negotiations. “This is a …

Increased weather and climate variability is disrupting lives and economies in the continent;. Credit: Campbell Easton/IPS by Baher Kamal (madrid) Wednesday, October 20, 2021 Inter Press Service MADRID, Oct 20 (IPS) – While Africa reportedly causes just 4 percent of global emissions of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) —an acidic colourless gas with …

The app was launched on Monday, October 18, 2021. A Nigerian Medical doctor, Dr Richard Okoye, breaks records by developing the first medical app that speaks all languages. Dr Richard Okoye develops a medical app that speaks all languages. The app which was launched on Monday the 18th of October …

Beijing kicked off sweeping reforms of the private sector a year ago by pulling the plug on a planned initial public offering by Ant Group Co, an Alibaba affiliate also founded by Ma. By Zheping HuangBloomberg Published On 20 Oct 2021 Jack Ma, the co-founder of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., is traveling …

A brazen attack on a military bus driving through the Syrian capital, Damascus, killed 14 people on Wednesday, according to state news media, a reminder that President Bashar al-Assad’s grip on power remains tenuous even in a major government stronghold with no active rebel presence. No organization immediately claimed responsibility …

The inmate, identified as Zhu Xianjian, entered China illegally in 2013. Three years later, he was sentenced to 11 years in prison for illegal border-crossing, larceny and robbery, to be followed by his deportation, according to a court judgment. A bounty notice issued by the Jilin prison said Zhu escaped …

Updating journalists at the daily media briefing in New York, Stéphane Dujarric cited humanitarians in saying that “conflict, food insecurity, natural disasters and COVID-19” have left some three million women, children and men in urgent need of life-saving assistance and protection. “This includes one million people who were in need at the start of the year, …

The state police Spokesperson, SP Yemisi Opalola, in a statement said the state police command had information of plans by some youths and people to stage a protest on Wednesday in commemoration of the EndSARS. “The intelligence that availed the police command revealed clandestine plans by some youths/group of people …