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Japan’s November jobless rate rises to 2.8% as people seek better jobs

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Japan’s unemployment rate in November edged up to 2.8 percent from the previous month as an economic recovery from the coronavirus fallout prompted more people to leave their jobs in search of better ones, the government said Tuesday.

‘People treated like weapons’: more deaths feared at Poland-Belarus border

Poland-Belarus border

An international aid worker has warned of more deaths at Poland’s border with Belarus, describing how desperate and often dangerously weakened migrants including very young children are being pushed back across the frontier.

People are panic buying homes as prices skyrocket around the world

It wasn’t long ago that real estate experts were bracing for the worst. The coronavirus pandemic had sent large parts of the world into lockdown, shuttering businesses, costing tens of millions of workers their jobs and putting the housing market into a deep freeze. The number of people asking lenders for more time on their mortgage payments surged as the […]

More than 10,000 people evacuated from conflict zone

Residents of Ak-Sai, Kyzyl-Jol and Kevit villages of Batken and Leilei districts of Batken region have been evacuated to safe places, the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Kyrgyz Republic reports. 13 special equipment and 156 employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, as well as 60 minibusses, were involved in the evacuation. 1,409 people […]

Japanese ‘Twitter killer’ sentenced to death for murders of nine people

'Twitter killer'

A Japanese man dubbed the “Twitter killer” who pleaded guilty to killing nine people in a high-profile mass murder case in 2017 was sentenced to death on Tuesday, the Tokyo District Court Tachikawa branch confirmed to CNN. Takahiro Shiraishi, 30, was convicted of murdering, raping, dismembering, and storing the nine victims’ bodies in his apartment […]

Hong Kong Police arrest 8 people over protests

Hong Kong Police

Hong Kong police on Tuesday arrested eight people including two district councillors in connection with a peaceful pro-democracy demonstration last month on the Chinese University campus, Hong Kong Free Press reported citing local media. Among those arrested was graduate and community organiser Arthur Yeung. Yeung was taken into custody by police at 7 am (local […]