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A backpacker greets a kangaroo on an Australian beach.
Over-30 Brits eye Australia gap year as age limit upped
LONDON — Millions more Brits can now live and work in Australia after the age limit for working holiday visas went up to 35.The age limit has been extended from 30 for all British citizens meaning 16 million adults are now eligible.Popular with backpacker tourists, the changes are a key part of the free trade agreement struck between the two countries last year.It will also be easier for Australians to work and travel in the UK.It follows an agreement between New Zealand and the UK to expand working holiday visas up to 35-year-olds.The scheme will allow Brits to work and live in Australia for up to three years from 1 July 2024, with various restrictions on the type of work that visitors are allowed to do to be lifted.In a rule going back more than a decade, British working holiday makers...
July 01, 2023

Over-30 Brits eye Australia gap year as age limit upped

Looting is taking place amid the riots, French authorities say
Fires rage as police detain over 1,300 on fourth night of French protests
PARIS — Fires burned across protest sites in France and more than 1,300 people were detained as violent demonstrations over the killing of a 17-year-old shot by police raged for a fourth night.Protests continued into the early hours of Saturday in defiance of a ban announced a day earlier on all “large-scale events” in the country, with rioting breaking out in several cities, CNN affiliate BFMTV reported.France’s Interior Ministry said Saturday that 1,311 people had been detained following the fourth night of violence, an update on its previous figure. It said 2,560 fires had been reported on public roads, with 1,350 cars burned, and that there had been 234 incidents of damage or fire in buildings.Seventy-nine police and gendarmes were injured over the course of Friday night and...
July 01, 2023

Fires rage as police detain over 1,300 on fourth night of French protests

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko at the 2nd Eurasian Economic Forum, on May 24, 2023, in Moscow, Russia.
Belarusian leader asks Wagner mercenaries to train his military
ATLANTA — Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko has invited Wagner Group mercenaries to his country to train its military.Lukashenko alluded to the invitation in a speech Friday dedicated to Belarus’ Independence Day, according to state news agency Belta.“Unfortunately, they (Wagner mercenaries) are not here,” Lukashenko said. “And if their instructors, as I already told them, come and pass on combat experience to us, we will accept this experience.”The invite from Lukashenko comes just a week after the Belarusian leader was credited with defusing an armed insurrection by Wagner forces against Moscow.In a stunning series of events that posed the greatest threat to the Russian President Vladimir Putin in years, Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin had marched his forces toward...
July 01, 2023

Belarusian leader asks Wagner mercenaries to train his military

A combo picture shows the Russian air force commander Gen. Sergey Surovikin (left) and the Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin
Russian Gen. Surovikin was secret VIP member of Wagner, documents show
MOSCOW — Documents shared exclusively with CNN suggest that a top Russian military commander Gen. Sergey Surovikin was a secret VIP member of Wagner, the private military company that staged a brief rebellion exposing disunity among senior Russian military officials.The documents, obtained by the Russian investigative Dossier Center, showed that Gen. Surovikin had been assigned a personal VIP Wagner registration number in 2018.Gen. Surovikin is listed along with at least 30 other senior Russian military and intelligence officials, who the Dossier Center said are also VIP Wagner members. The identities of those officials have not been revealed.There is no evidence that Gen. Surovikin was on Wagner’s payroll but the VIP membership for so many senior figures implies an overly close...
June 30, 2023

Russian Gen. Surovikin was secret VIP member of Wagner, documents show

Vilhelm Junnila apologised for his remarks but has now stepped down from his ministerial position. — courtesy photo
Finland’s economy minister resigns after 10 days over Nazi references
HELSINKI — Finland’s new economy minister has resigned after just 10 days in office over remarks he made at a far-right event four years ago.Vilhelm Junnila, of the nationalist Finns Party, has been accused of making repeated Nazi references.He apologized and survived a no-confidence vote, but announced his resignation on Friday. Junnila said he was stepping down so as not to harm the reputation of both the government and Finland.“I see that it is impossible for me to continue as a minister in a satisfactory way,” Junnila added in a statement.His resignation comes after it emerged he addressed a Nationalist Alliance event in the south-western city of Turku in 2019.At the event, held to commemorate the victims of a stabbing in the city two years earlier, he remarked that the local...
June 30, 2023

Finland’s economy minister resigns after 10 days over Nazi references

File photo of Ravina Shamdasani, spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. — courtesy UN News
UN rights office calls on France to address ‘deep issues’ of racism in policing
GENEVA — Following a third night of riots and protests across France over the police shooting of a teenager of Algerian and Moroccan descent, the UN rights office (OHCHR) said it was time for the country to reckon with its history of racism in policing.In a statement released in Geneva on Friday, OHCHR Spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani expressed concern over the death of 17-year-old Nahel M on Tuesday, after he was shot dead driving away from a traffic stop in the Parisian suburb of Nanterre.According to news reports, at least 875 people were arrested in major cities around the country on Thursday night, after around 40,000 police officers were deployed to quell protests and rioting over the killing.President Emmanuel Macron has urged parents to keep their children off the streets, while in...
June 30, 2023

UN rights office calls on France to address ‘deep issues’ of racism in policing

Visitors walk past the Colosseum, in Rome.
Tourist who carved name in Colosseum identified by Italian police
ROME — Italian police say they believe the man filmed while engraving his name and that of his apparent girlfriend last week on the ancient Roman Colosseum is a tourist who lives in Britain.The identification was made using photographic comparisons, Italian Carabinieri said in a statement.The press release also noted, "That the proceeding is in the preliminary investigation phase, therefore the suspect must consider himself innocent until a final sentence is issued".UK media is widely reporting the culprit who carved “Ivan+Haley 23” on the Colosseum wall to be 27-year-old Bulgarian-born fitness instructor Ivan Dimitrov, who also goes by the name Ivan Hawkins.He and his long-term girlfriend 33-year-old Hayley Bracey reportedly live together near the city of Bristol in...
June 30, 2023

Tourist who carved name in Colosseum identified by Italian police

A billboard indicates the presence of landmines at the position of a Ukrainian volunteer unit in a suburb of Kyiv on February 28, 2023.
Rights group.accuses Ukraine of using indiscriminate landmines
WASHINGTON — Ukraine has been urged to stop using banned landmines by a rights group.Human Rights Watch (HRW) said it had uncovered new evidence that Ukrainian forces had deployed the indiscriminate weapon as they battle the Russian invasion.The international NGO documented 11 civilian causalities, including one death and multiple leg amputations, from "petal" or "butterfly" mines, which it claimed Ukraine had fired by rocket into Russian-occupied territory near the eastern city of Izium last year.In a statement released on Friday, it said Russian forces have also used at least 13 types of antipersonnel mines across Ukraine since the start of its invasion in February 2022, killing and maiming civilians.Landmines can inflict a devastating toll on civilian populations...
June 30, 2023

Rights group.accuses Ukraine of using indiscriminate landmines

Kathrin Schmidt, a member of Iuventa, is among four from the group charged with aiding and abetting illegal migration in Italy.
Italy rescuers face 20 years in jail for saving migrants from drowning in the Mediterranean
ROME — Even as outrage simmers over the hundreds of migrants dying at sea every year off Europe's coast, rescuers are still being persecuted for helping save lives.Kathrin Schmidt helped save some 14,000 people who made the perilous journey across the Mediterranean to seek safety and a better future in Europe between 2016 and 2017.Now, she faces charges that could see her behind bars for as long as 20 years.Schmidt was head of operations aboard Iuventa, a rescue ship helping migrants in distress in the Med, when the vessel was seized by Italian authorities and her life-saving work abruptly interrupted.Together with several of her colleagues, she was accused of “aiding and abetting illegal immigration” - a charge that carries a 20-year prison sentence.At least 20 people, including...
June 30, 2023

Italy rescuers face 20 years in jail for saving migrants from drowning in the Mediterranean

Fireworks exploded on the third night of protests sparked by the fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old driver in the Paris suburb of Nanterre, France.
667 people arrested amid looting, fires and violence in France
PARIS — Protests erupted after police shot dead a 17-year-old boy on Tuesday, feeding deep-seated concerns about police violence and systemic racism inside the country.More than 600 people have been arrested in France, following another night of protests.Overnight from Thursday to Friday was marked by looting, fires and damage to public property, sparked by the killing of a teenage boy by police earlier in the week.France's President Emmanuel Macron is due to chair a crisis meeting Friday afternoon, with protests now in their third night.He has denounced the violence, which has swept through several cities, including Marseille, Bordeaux, Lyon, Grenoble, Annecy, Toulouse and Saint-Etienne, as "unjustifiable".The protests were sparked by the shooting of 17-year-old Nahel M at...
June 30, 2023

667 people arrested amid looting, fires and violence in France

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