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UK defense minister Gavin Williamson sacked over Huawei leak Defense Secretary Gavin Williamsonwas fired by British Prime Minister Theresa May on Wednesday, following a probe into a leak of information about Chinese telecoms giant Huawei. The information, which was shared during an April 23 meeting of the National Security Council, concerned Huaweiʼs possible involvementin developing the UKʼs 5G network. In a letter to Williamson, May said that the probe "provides compelling evidence suggesting your responsibility for the unauthorized disclosure." "No other, credible version of events to explain this leak has been identified," she added.
Yellow vest protesters join unionists, environmentalists for May Day march in Paris Parisian police fired tear gas and made arrests as protesters threw stones and set fires on the fringes of Wednesdayʼs May Day rally. Yellow vest (gilet jaune) protesters joined the ranks of the traditional march, organized by trade unions in Paris and other French cities on Wednesday. There were clashes in the Montparnasse district where hundreds of anticapitalist "black bloc" activists pushed to the front of the crowd. Bottles and other projectiles were reported to have been hurled at police with a parked police van set alight in the street. The demonstration came days after the anti-government movement rejected a package of tax cuts by French President Emmanuel Macron. The presidentʼs policies are widely seen as favoring big business while reducing quality of living for ordinary people.
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Naruhito pledges to ʼalways think of the peopleʼ while taking Japanʼs throne Naruhito pledged to think of the people
Japan celebrated their new emperor as symbols of power officially passed to Naruhito after his fatherʼs three-decade rule. In his speech, Naruhito pledged to "think of the people" and serve as a symbol of their unity.
Jaguar Land Rover Defender assembly moved from UK to Slovakia Jaguar Land Rover is to assemble its new Defender model in Slovakia. The announcement came as the UKʼs auto association warned of a 30% fall in output in the event of a no-deal Brexit. Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), a subsidiary of Indian automotive company Tata Motors, announced on Tuesday that its latest Land Rover Defender is to be assembled in Slovakia. It is the second Land Rover model to be built in JLRʼs Slovakian plant. Production of the Land Rover Discovery model was recently moved to Nitra, Slovakia, which opened last October. While the Defender engines will be built in England,
the changes are part of a restructuring which includes the loss of some 4,500, mostly UK jobs. It follows decisions by Japanese carmakers Nissan and Honda to curb investmentand stop some production in the UK. The UKʼs Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) expressed concern for the industryshould the UK leave the EU without a deal. "Should Britain crash out of the EU and fall back on WTO rules for a sustained period, (UK car) output is forecast to fall around 30% on recent levels to just 1.07 million units by 2021, a level consistent with the dark days of the mid-1980s," the SMMT said in a release on Tuesday.
We need men to talk about periods: Oscar winner Guneet Monga Period. End of Sentence is a documentary
about the deep-rooted stigma attached to menstruation in the village of Hapur in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. For generations, women here did not have access to sanitary pads, leading to health issues and girls dropping out from schools. Directed by award-winning Iranian-American filmmaker Rayka Zehtabchi, the film is created by The Pad Project, an organization established by a group of students at the Oakwood School in Los Angeles and their teacher, Melissa Berton. The movie has been produced
by 34-year-old Guneet Monga (pictured above), who was born in Delhi and heads the production company, Sikhya Entertainment. She has been involved in several critically acclaimed Indian movies, including Lunchbox, Gangs of Wasseypur and Masaan, which won the International Jury of Film Critics Prize at Cannes in 2015. Monga is brimming with ambition and confidence after her Oscar victory and hopes the movie will help change mindsets and hard-wired attitudes, especially among males, towards menstruation.
German Foreign Minister pledges support for Venezuelan opposition while in Colombia On the second leg of his four-day Latin America tour Wednesday, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas made a number of commitments to Colombian PresidentIvan Duque. These involved financial and political assistance in dealing with humanitarian issues. Foremost among those issues was the pressing problem of hostinggrowing numbers of Venezuelan refugees fleeingtheir crisisstricken land. Colombia currently hosts some 1.5 million Venezuelan refugees, and Colombian Foreign Minister Carlos Trujillo says another 1.8 million could arrive if the political standoff in Caracas does not end soon. Maas said that Germany would be giving Colombia another €4 million ($4.5 million) on top of the €10 million it has already committed in order to aid Bogota in the task of housing and caring for the refugees.
German May Day protests draw tens of thousands to the streets Tens of thousands of marchers answered calls from Germanyʼs main trade unions — the German Trade Union Confederation (DGB), Verdi, and IG Metal — to take to the streets onMay 1to demonstrate forincreased workersʼ rights. Theunions are demanding the implementation of a Europe-wide minimum wage as well as improved collective bargaining rights. Organizers also used speeches to implore workers to make their voices heard in upcoming European elections from May 23 to May 26.
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Merkel kicks off West Africa tour pledging support in fight against terrorism German Chancellor Angela Merkel started her tour of West Africa on Wednesday, a trip that will see her visit Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger for key talks over the next three days. The bulk of Merkelʼs visit will focus on security andsupporting counterterrorism efforts in the restive Sahel region. "In the last few years, this region has become the main focus of Germanyʼs Africa policy," Merkelʼs spokesman Steffen Seibert said in a video prior to departure. "The number of terror attacks, the number of Islamist terror attacks, is increasing," he added. Burkina Fasoʼs President Roch Marc Christian Kabore will greet the chancellor when she arrives in the capital, Ouagadougou, on Wednesday evening. She will then attend a regional meeting with the leaders of the so-called G5 Sahel countries — which include Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Mauritania and Chad.
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German inflation rises to 2.1% in April, above ECB target Germanyʼs annual inflation rate has exceeded the 2% target set by the European Central Bank for the first time since November. An economic slowdown and higher travel and energy costs are part of the cause. According to preliminary data released by Germanyʼs Federal Statistics Office (Destatis) on Tuesday, consumer prices rose by 2.1% yearon-year after an increase of 1.4% in the previous month. Market analysts had forecast a 1.7% increase. Eurozone stocks and German bond yields
rose after the data was released. Inflation in the eurozone is expected to fall over the course of the year, due to a slowdown in global growth and a rise in energy prices. Economists expect annual eurozone inflation to rise to 1.6% when figures are announced on Friday.
Polish protesters go bananas over art censorship Polandʼs national art gallery has removed a video installation featuring a human interaction with a banana on moral grounds. Hundreds of people ate bananas outside Polandʼs national gallery in Warsaw on Monday to protest claims of censorship. The protest came after new gallery head, Jerzy Miziolek, last week ordered the removal of the 1973 video installation "Consumer Art," by Natalia LL, which shows a young
woman sensually eating a banana. Miziolek told online news portal Onet.pl he was "opposed to showing works that could irritatesensitive young people" and that visitors had complained about the piece. Also removed was a 2005 video byKatarzyna Kozyrathat showed a woman holding a leash attached to two men dressed as dogs on all fours. "Certain topics related to gender shouldnʼt be explicitly shown," he was quoted as saying by Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza.
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You donʼt need to be an expert on international trade routes to look at a map and understandthat Sri Lankaʼs location is one of potentially serious economic advantage. The island nation — population 22 million — sits at the southern tip of India, almost as close to the Middle East and the Horn of Africa as it is to South East Asia. The value of this location has not been lost on its northern neighbor China.Under Xi Jinpingʼs so-called ʼBelt and Road Initiative,ʼ the Chinese government has pumped billions into Sri Lanka in the form of both foreign investment and loans in recent years. This reliance on Chinese money is part of a long-standing Sri Lankan problem. With a major trade deficit, as well as crippling levels of debt, the country needs foreign money. China has rushed to fill the gap more enthusiastically than anyone else. The current Sri Lankan government came to power in 2015, when it replaced former President Mahinda Rajapaksaʼs administration. His government had been unabashedly eager to seek Chinese money, regardless of the costs, and it left the incoming government with a major web of deals — and debt — to untangle.
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Itʼs been forty years since Uli Hoeness was forced to end his playing career and became the Bundesligaʼs youngest general manager. He has been the driving force in making Bayern Munich the leagueʼs dominant club. As a player, Uli Hoeness was a forward who was part of the Bayern team that won both the Bundesliga and the European Cup three times. Playing for West Germany, he won both the EuropeanChampionship and the World Cup. For a few years, Hoeness and Gerd Müller formed one of Europeʼs most potent strike forces. However, his playing career was cut short by a knee injury.
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The first case in the Netherlands of worker exploitation involving a Dutch company for alleged crimes committed outside the country could be nearing an end in the coming weeks, lawyers said, and if successful may open the door to more such cases. Barbara van Straaten, the lawyer representing a North Korean worker, said Dutch law criminalizes the act of profiting from exploitation. The name of the Dutch shipping company sued by the worker couldnʼt be disclosed for safety reasons, she added. Under the countryʼs antitrafficking law, offenders can be jailed for up to 18 years and face fines of €83,000 ($95,000).