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Donald Trump previously signed an executive order to cut funding to South Africa and offer refugee status to Afrikaners, claiming the government was enabling farm attacks and land dispossession. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has strongly dismissed claims that white citizens are being persecuted in South Africa, calling the allegations a “completely false narrative”.His comments come amid accusations from US President Donald Trump, tech billionaire Elon Musk and white minority groups, that South Africa’s government is enabling violence against the white Afrikaner population.In his weekly address on Monday, Ramaphosa urged South Africans not to let “events beyond our shores divide…
The agreement would represent Germany’s strictest migration policies in decades. The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) came second in the election on Feb. 23 and is likely to become a rowdy opposition voice in the forthcoming parliament. Some aspects of migration policy are not agreed, however. So far, the SPD is rejecting CDU demands to set up asylum processing and return centers in other countries. Away from migration, the two parties haven’t yet agreed on defense spending. The CDU is pushing to radically increase German investment to 3.5 percent target — far above NATO’s 2 percent target — which would…
Now that the United States is cracking down on immigration, some low-skill jobs may not be so easy to fill. So the state is debating lifting some child labour laws to involve minors. Florida’s state’s legislature is debating a bill on Tuesday that would relax child labour rules and allow minors as young as 14 years old to work overnight on school days. According to the current rules, they are not allowed to work between 11pm and 6.30am. Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis supports the loosening of the law, along with President Donald Trump’s policy of deporting undocumented immigrants from the…
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Updated: 25/03/2025 – 17:58 GMT+1Marking the 1821 War of Independence, Athens hosted a military parade, church services, ceremonial gun salutes, and a flag-raising at the Acropolis, attended by national leaders. … More Greece celebrated its Independence Day on Tuesday, commemorating the start of the 1821 War of Independence against Ottoman rule with military parades and religious services.In Athens, a grand military parade took place at Syntagma Square, attended by President Konstantinos Tassoulas and top state, political, and military officials. The day began with 21 ceremonial gun salutes from Lycabettus Hill, while armed forces bands played in central streets.A special service…
The government is braced for the possibility that the U.S. may retaliate against Britain’s 20 percent Value Added Tax — a consumption levy added to most goods and services. The first U.K. official quoted above voiced concern this could be set at the difference between U.S. sales taxes and the VAT rate, so around 12 to 14 percent. Easing up on U.K. taxes on big tech firms, something that’s being mulled in a bid to swerve Trump’s tariff wrath, could also cause a fresh headache for Reeves. Some Labour backbenchers have already raised the alarm at the optics of going…
Due to ongoing geopolitical tensions, the Dutch government wants to more than double the number of people serving in the armed forces, from 70,000 to 200,000 people. The Dutch Ministry of Defence has confirmed it aims to more than double its military personnel, from 70,000 to 200,000 by 2030. In a letter from the State Secretary for Defence, Gijs Tuinman, to the House of Representatives, he said that defence is “facing a major change,” which means “that the Netherlands must be able to stand on its own two feet.”In order to increase the size of the armed forces, the government…
But soon after that amendment was passed, Martin was shouted down as he attempted to answer his first question. As scores of opposition lawmakers stood and refused to stop shouting, Murphy conceded defeat and shut parliament for the day. It marked the second time she was forced to take that step following January’s first failed attempt to elect Martin as Taoiseach, Ireland’s “chief.” Murphy wasn’t even able to announce the official outcome of Tuesday’s vote, she said, because opposition lawmakers refused to sign the document confirming the number of votes cast on their side. Moments earlier, video screens inside the…
Lukashenko marked three decades in power last year and his political opponents have denounced the tightly orchestrated presidential election on 26 January as a farce. Alexander Lukashenko has been sworn in for a seventh consecutive term as president of Belarus at a ceremony in the capital Minsk.During the ceremony, Lukashenko poked fun at those who call him ‘Europe’s last dictator’ by claiming Belarus has more democracy “than those who cast themselves as its models.””Half of the world is dreaming about our ‘dictatorship,’ the dictatorship of real business and interests of our people,” Lukashenko said in his inauguration speech at the Independence…
The exhibition was co-hosted by Luxembourgish Green MEP Tilly Metz and organized by NGOs Animal Law Europe and the European Environmental Bureau, with the aim of highlighting standard practices in industrial farming. Metz’s office didn’t formally contest the request — her team submitted alternative images, and the swap was made within minutes. The one accepted shows a piglet getting its tail docked — also legal, also painful, but apparently less upsetting. “In agreement with MEP Tilly Metz, the photo was replaced by another one sent by her office,” Złotowski said in a written reply, citing rules against offensive or disruptive…