Macron faces union pushback
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Union hardliners were due to make their push against President Emmanuel Macron's landmark labour-market reform on Tuesday with strikes and demonstrations across France.
Union hardliners were due to make their push against President Emmanuel Macron's landmark labour-market reform on Tuesday with strikes and demonstrations across France.
The top UN human rights official denounced Myanmar for its military operation against Rohingya, calling it a textbook example of ethnic cleansing.
The Brexit bill will formally end Britain's EU membership and overturn the supremacy of European law in the country.
Kim Jong Un's regime appears to be stepping up efforts to secure bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies that could be used to avoid additional trade restrictions.
The former hurricane remained an immense, 668-kilometre-wide storm as its centre moved on from Florida, giving its still-formidable gusts and drenching rains a far reach.
Malcolm Turnbull speaks to South Korean President Moon Jae-in as UN tightens the screws on Kim Jong-un.
New Zealand CEO's are pleased in general, but worried about the potential election result. The Minister of Finance says they should be.
The Australian pick-up runs counter to a global trend of decelerating house price growth in the June quarter.
Paul Mangione, the former head of subprime mortgage trading, saddled investors with hundreds of millions of dollars in losses at the height of the housing bubble, prosecutors said.
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China's automakers are not yet big enough to make electric cars profitably. And western producers fear losing valuable intellectual property...
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