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Canada Post workers have embarked on a nationwide strike after the federal government authorised widespread reforms that would shut some post offices and end certain types of deliveries.The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) called the proposed reforms "attack...

Warning: Contains disturbing content and graphic descriptions of sexual actsThe BBC understands the boss of a degrading sex-trade ring that exploited vulnerable women in Dubai's most glamorous neighbourhoods has been detained in the United Arab Emirates. Charles "Abbey" Mwesigwa,...

Slovakia has changed its constitution, enshrining into law recognition of only two sexes – male and female.The legal change, which passed in a knife-edge vote in parliament, also restricts adoption to married heterosexual couples and prohibits surrogate pregnancies.The constitutional...

All boxing activities in Ghana have been suspended following the death of a super-middleweight 11 days after a bout in Accra.Ernest Akushey, popularly known as Bahubali, died aged 32 on Tuesday.While the exact cause of death is yet to...

Dozens of people filed out of the room in protest at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Source link

A Turkish attempt to force kebab shops in the EU to adhere to strict rules on how to make a doner kebab has been withdrawn.If the bid for a "Traditional Speciality Guaranteed" label had succeeded, restrictions would have been...

Namibia's authorities have warned people not to hold parties at cemeteries after a social gathering at a gravesite in the capital, Windhoek, sparked outrage last weekend.According to City of Windhoek officials, the event at Gammams cemetery "showed seating arrangements,...

Marine life is thriving on unexploded Nazi bombs sitting at the bottom of a German bay, a submersible has discovered, even capturing footage of starfishes creeping across a huge chunk of TNT.The discovery, which was...

Two 17-year-old boys have been arrested on suspicion of "state interference" in the Netherlands, prosecutors say, in a case with reported links to Russian spying.The pair were allegedly contacted by pro-Russian hackers on the messaging app Telegram, Dutch media...