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      2 March

      Visitors can continue applying for work permits inside Canada

      The move, an extension of a Covid-era temporary public policy that was set to expire today, has now been extended by two years, until February 28, 2025. Toronto: Foreign nationals who are in Canada as visitors and who receive a valid job offer will be able to apply for and receive a work permit without having to leave the country, the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has announced. The move, an extension of a Covid-era temporary public policy that was set to expire today, has now been extended by two years, until February 28, 2025. Visitors applying under this public policy who held a work permit within the last 12 months will also continue to be able to request interim work authorization…

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    • 2 March

      US will continue partnering with India to promote transparent, rules-based trading system: Biden admin 

      The United States and India share a dynamic and important trade and investment relationship, the US Trade Representative said in its President’s 2023 Trade Policy Agenda. Washington: The United States will continue to partner with India to tackle shared challenges, build resilient supply chains, and promote a transparent and rules-based trading system for market economies and democracies, the Biden Administration said Wednesday. The United States and India share a dynamic and important trade and investment relationship, the US Trade Representative said in its President’s 2023 Trade Policy Agenda. In 2021, the two countries relaunched the Trade Policy Forum (TPF), which had not met since 2017, it said, adding that India and the US convened the 13th meeting of the TPF in Washington in January last year. “Our…

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    • 2 March

      Art of listening is powerful’: Rahul Gandhi at Cambridge University

      “The art of listening” when done consistently and diligently is “very powerful,” he added. London: Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi while speaking to MBA students at the Cambridge Judge Business School on the subject of “Learning to Listen in the 21st Century”, said that people around the world need to find a way of listening compassionately to new concerns in the 21st century that has been transformed by the shift of production away from democratic countries and toward China. “The art of listening” when done consistently and diligently is “very powerful,” he added. He said the decline in recent decades of manufacturing in democratic countries, including India and the US, as production has shifted to China, which has produced mass inequality…

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    • 2 March

      Turkey to go ahead with Presidential elections despite devastating quakes, check date

       Turkey is determined to hold Presidential elections on the scheduled date despite the deadly earthquakes that left many areas in the country in scrambles. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan confirmed that Presidential Elections will be held on May 14. The announcement comes amid speculation whether the vote would be postponed following the devastating earthquakes, which caused a whopping $34.2 billion of physical damage. “This nation will do what is necessary on May 14, God willing,” Erdogan said in a speech to parliamentarians from his AK Party in parliament on Wednesday. While Erdogan has accepted there had been problems with the earthquake response, he has also defended it, and said “negative campaigns” had been conducted for “political interest[s]”. Turkey had announced…

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    • 2 March

      Tough on crime ‘Godfather of Lagos’ wins Nigeria’s close election

      One of Nigeria’s richest politicians, nicknamed the Godfather of Lagos, has been declared the new president of Africa’s most populous nation, in the country’s closest election in decades. Bola Tinubu won 37 per cent of the vote, standing for the ruling party and seeing off competition in a race undermined by logistical problems and low turnout. The win marked a move to the centre stage for a behind-the-scenes heavyweight who has spent years using his influence and formidable network to win elections for others. Opposition parties immediately denounced the result and demanded a new vote, with at least one of the defeated parties pledging to appeal the outcome in court. The president-elect attempted to strike a unifying tone after his victory…

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    • 2 March

      Greta Thunberg pulled from anti-wind farm protest by police

      Norwegian police have briefly detained climate activist Greta Thunberg after she joined in a protest against the country’s largest onshore wind farm. The founder of the Fridays for Future climate movement was carried away from the entrance to the finance ministry in Oslo on Tuesday, where she was protesting in solidarity with Norway’s indigenous Sami population. Hundreds of protests have blocked the entrances to several government ministries in recent days, demanding the removal of two wind parks that cut through their herding lands. “Indigenous rights, human rights, must go hand-in-hand with climate protection and climate action. That can’t happen at the expense of some people. Then it is not climate justice,” Ms Thunberg told Reuters on Monday. Norway’s supreme court stripped the wind…

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    • 2 March

      Covid ‘most likely’ leaked from Chinese lab, says FBI director

      Covid “most likely” leaked from a Chinese lab, the director of the FBI has said. Christopher Wray’s comments are the first public confirmation by the bureau of its classified judgment on the origins of the pandemic, which has killed an estimated 6.85 million people. “The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan,” Mr Wray told Fox News. His interview followed reports that the US Department of Energy had also concluded that a lab leak was the most likely cause. The study is considered authoritative because the department oversees a network of 17 laboratories encompassing research in advanced biology, but the energy department reached its conclusion with “low…

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    • 2 March

      Remains found during search for Constance Marten’s baby, police say

      Police searching for the baby of Constance Marten announced they have found the remains of an infant. Officers from the Metropolitan and Sussex forces have been scouring 91 square miles of land around the South Downs following the arrest of Ms Marten and her boyfriend Mark Gordon in Brighton on Monday evening. Fears had grown over their baby’s safety since the last previous sighting of the couple in Newhaven on Jan 8. A Post Mortem will take place in due course. They said a crime scene was in place and work was expected to continue there for some time. © Provided by The Telegraph Lewis Basford, a Detective Superintendent with the Metropolitan Police, told a press conference: “Officers searching a wooded…

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    • 1 March

      International concern as conflict grows in breakaway Somaliland

      Six countries issue joint statement over clashes around town of Lascanood between Somaliland and local clan forces. Qatar, Somalia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United States have expressed concern over fighting around a disputed town in Somalia’s northern breakaway region of Somaliland, where at least 34 people were killed in clashes in early February. Tension has risen between Somaliland and local clan forces in Lascanood since the end of last year, and heavy fighting has broken out around the town, which straddles a key trade route. “The partners expressed concern about the ongoing conflict in and around Lascanood and called on all parties to adhere to the ceasefire, de-escalate, allow unhindered humanitarian access, and engage in…

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    • 1 March

      Pakistan top court orders polls in two provinces within 90 days

      Supreme Court says elections for provincial assemblies in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa must be held within three months. The five-member top court bench, led by Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial, gave a split 3-2 decision. Islamabad, Pakistan – Pakistan’s Supreme Court has ruled that elections for the provincial assemblies in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa must be held within 90 days. The five-member top court bench, led by Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial, on Wednesday gave a split 3-2 decision. The assemblies in the two provinces were controlled by former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party. In January, Khan, in a bid to force early elections, asked the provincial governors to dissolve the two assemblies. Pakistan traditionally holds the provincial and…

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