What is RCEP and why are trade unions in the Asia-Pacific region concerned about it?
Even as the new agreement between ASEAN nations and its free trade partners establishes the largest trading bloc in the world, it is vehemently being opposed by labor unions, trade justice groups and women’s movements
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp under the scanner as Australian Senate to probe media monopolies
The senate inquiry announcement comes days after a petition by ex-prime minister Kevin Rudd to investigate Murdoch’s media monopoly in Australia garnered half a million signatures
Yet another journalist killed in Afghanistan
33-year-old Elyas Dayee, who was associated with Radio Free Afghanistan RFE/RL, was killed and three others were critically wounded in an improvised bomb blast in Helmand’s Lashkar Gah
Pro-govt. groups gain advantage in Jordanian polls amid poor turnout
Pro-government figures and independents won a majority of seats with a large number of them from military backgrounds. Out of 130 elected members, 100 are first-time winners
University of Manchester students stage occupation of campus against insensitivity of authorities
The occupation was led by UoM Rent Strike, alongside the campaign group ‘9K 4 WHAT?. The protesters were agitating against the extremely high rent and lack of support during the COVID-19 pandemic
More than 70 migrants die in a shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea near Libyan coast
The small dinghy was reportedly carrying over 120 people of whom at least 47 were rescued. Every year, hundreds of migrants are killed in similar accidents while trying to reach Europe from Libya or other countries in the region
Mexico police shoots at anti-femicide protest in Cancún
Three reporters were injured because of police violence, one of them suffering bullet wounds.
Journalist Virgilio Maganes shot dead in Philippines, the 18th such murder during Duterte’s rule
62-year-old Virgilio Maganes was shot dead by unknown gunmen in the Pangasinan province on Tuesday. He had survived a similar attempt on his life in 2016