Category: clashes
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Rayner clashes with business secretary over reforms to workers’ rights
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Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner is at odds with Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds over plans to give workers full employment rights from day one on the job, as concerns grow among businesses about the impact of the proposed reforms. The dispute centres on how probationary periods will work under the…
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At least 73 killed as clashes rock Bangladesh, curfew imposed By Reuters
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Written by Roma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) – At least 73 people were killed and hundreds wounded in clashes in Bangladesh on Sunday as police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse tens of thousands of protesters demanding Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s resignation. The government announced a nationwide curfew starting…