BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — President Javier Milei suffered a judicial blow Wednesday as a court suspended labor rule changes he recently announced as part of sweeping deregulation and austerity measures aimed at reviving Argentina’s struggling economy. The ruling by a three-judge court came on a legal challenge brought by …
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Seventeen weeks have flown by, and we are once again at the end of an NFL season. But we are about to get one of the best final weeks in recent memory because 11 teams have a chance to clinch a playoff spot with just five spots remaining. Ten games …
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It seems like Marcus Stroman is headed back to the Big Apple. Stroman was traded to the New York Mets in 2019 and played there until 2021, but reports have swirled that the pitcher was livid at the fact that he was traded to Queens rather than the Bronx Bombers. …
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Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels are warning Friday that a series of joint airstrikes carried out against them by the U.S. and British militaries will “not go unanswered or unpunished.” Houthis’ military spokesman Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree issued the threat in a recording while the rebel group’s deputy foreign minister Hussein …
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BUCHAREST, Romania – Roman’s prime minister is boasting that he enjoys broad popular support as he faces a vote which could lift his immunity protection from a corruption probe. Victor Ponta on Monday warned his opponents not to stage street protests. He said: “I understand they will bring 1,000 people. …
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BEIJING – China says border guards have shot one person trying to illegally cross from North Korea. A brief statement from the Helong city government said the incident took place shortly before 4:00 p.m. (0800 GMT) on Thursday after the suspect attempted to evade arrest by border guards. It says …
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BEIJING – Chinese police say they fatally shot an ethnic Uighur man after he tried to attack travelers at a train station with a cement block. Railway police in the northern city of Xi’an said a police officer repeatedly warned the man before shooting him as he attacked travelers buying …
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When it comes to telling the rest of the world how it must behave in order to save the planet from environmental calamity, and lobbying for trillion-dollar solutions to those problems, no organization in the world makes greater claims to being the leading authority — and global arbiter — than …
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As it rushed headlong into the brave new world of social media, the United Nations Secretariat for years apparently kept its legal department out of the loop in signing up for services like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Flickr, resulting in potential leaks of delicate internal information, among other things, according …
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LONDON – A British man who beheaded an 82-year-old woman in her backyard has been found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity but will be locked up indefinitely in a psychiatric hospital. Nicholas Salvador stabbed Palmira Silva to death in north London in September. He cut off her …
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