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‘The game’: the perilous journey for Afghans to reach UK by boat
On August 6, after hearing about the Taliban advance in southern Afghanistan, Harif Ahmadzai fled his hometown of Gardez without saying goodbye to his parents. That marked the start of a 106-day journey to a makeshift camp in northern…
Activist calls on Glencore to spin off coal assets
An activist investor has called on commodities group Glencore to spin off its thermal coal business, divest non-core assets and improve corporate governance.Bluebell Capital Partners, a London-based hedge fund that previously took on Danone…
‘The world is watching South Africa’: health experts sift Omicron clues
Health officials worldwide are closely following the fast-rising wave of coronavirus infections in South Africa for clues to explain the heavily mutated Omicron variant.While the strain has been detected in countries ranging from the UK to…
German government to quiz Deutsche Bahn over fraud allegations
The German government is to quiz Deutsche Bahn’s executive board over allegations of fraud made by two whistleblowers regarding the €8.2bn construction of a new station in Stuttgart.The state-owned railway operator in 2016 received repeated…
Union accuses H&M of violating own policies in warehouse dispute
A Dutch trade union has accused fashion retailer H&M and its logistics partner of cutting break times for warehouse staff and refusing to engage with workers in an alleged violation of local labour laws and its own policies.Migrant…
Holmes accuses former business partner of abuse in Theranos trial
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes accused her former boyfriend and business partner Ramesh Balwani of repeated forced sex during testimony in her criminal fraud trial, casting him as an abusive partner who strongly influenced her management…
Latest news updates: CDC says all US adults should get Covid-19 booster in expansion of…
Naomi Rovnick in London, William Langley in Hong Kong and Nicholas Megaw in New YorkUS stocks partially recovered on Monday after news of the Omicron coronavirus variant triggered a sharp sell-off late last week, as investors settled in for…
Ghislaine Maxwell described as ‘predator’ at sex-trafficking trial
Ghislaine Maxwell was alternately described as a “predator” who enabled Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of underage girls and a woman wrongly blamed for the sins of a man, as the British socialite’s criminal trial started in a New York court…
Omicron threatens to imperil US economic recovery, says Powell
Rising Covid-19 cases and the new Omicron variant threaten to imperil the economic recovery and exacerbate inflationary pressures, Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell is set to tell US lawmakers on Tuesday.In testimony to be delivered at a…
Amazon ordered to hold rerun of union election at Alabama facility
A US labour official has ordered a rerun of the vote for unionisation at an Amazon distribution centre in Alabama, saying the ecommerce giant had “essentially hijacked” the process.Amazon won the closely watched vote in April by 1,798 votes…
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