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2 firms fined over illegal workers!
Photo credit: BBC Two firms with links to Herefordshire have been fined for employing illegal workers, according to the Home of Office. BBC reports that an Essex-based company, OKE Development Ltd. was fined 320,000 pounds for illegal employment at the former MandM Direct building on Clinton Road, Leominster. The report states that Care recruitment firm Lord’s Care…
Israeli president to visit UK!
Photo credit: The Guardian Isreali President Isaac Herzog is expected in the UK, on a two-day visit, next week. However, he may not find the visit peaceful. AA reports that British lawmakers are urging government officials not to meet him. While speaking to the BBC, a former Labour Party MP, who is now an independent, noted that…
US to receive shares in Ukraine’s minerals fund for military aid!
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Ukrainian Economy Minister Yulia Svyrydenko sign a deal that gives the United States preferential access to Ukraine’s mineral resources. U.S. Department of the Treasury/Reuters The US and Ukraine are moving at breakneck speed to implement a new investment found. Kyiv Post reports that it is part of a mineral deal promoted…
Carney rolls out assistance for sectors affected by tariffs!
Photo credit: the Wall Street Journal Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has rolled out measures that he says will transform the country’s economy into a force that can withstand the trade shocks of the Trump administration. CBC News reports that the measures, announced on Friday, are targeted to specifically help workers and businesses that have…
“Queen of Canada” arrested, rearrested!
Photo credit: BBC Romano Didulo, the so-called “Queen of Canada”, was rearrested on Thursday, a day after she and 15 of her followers were taken into custody and promptly released after a police raid on her cult’s compound in rural Saskatchewan. CBC News reports that all sixteen of them had been released without charges earlier on Thursday, according…
South Korea investigates inappropriate treatment of migrant workers!
Ajit Roy, 41, of Bangladesh came to South Korea for work, but was diagnosed with a deadly lung disease 9months after starting his job at a farming machinery factory. Photo credit: Los Angeles Times President Lee Jae Myung of South Korea has ordered a fact-finding investigation into cases of unfair treatment and delayed wages involving…
Two jailed over Vietnamese people smuggling!
Photo credit: ITVX Two men who attempted to smuggle ten Vietnamese people into the UK have been jailed. Viet Nam News reports that Eoin Nolan and Daniel Loughran were part of a people-smuggling gang who conspired to move ten migrants, including eight children, from Belgium to the UK on March 5, 2020. The gang are…


