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This visualization, via Visual Capitalist’s Bruno Venditti, ranks over 150 countries by the typical number of hours worked per week in 2025. While global labor averages hover around 38.7 hours per week, the gap between the hardest- and lightest-working nations stretches nearly 30 hours. The data for this visualization comes from the World Population Review. It
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Submitted by Thomas Kolbe The Berlin Senate has passed the Climate Adaptation Act. It obliges the city to plant 560,000 trees by 2040. After Hamburg’s referendum on an earlier entry into climate neutrality, this marks the second plebiscitary victory for the climate movement. Now, Berlin’s drivers are in the crosshairs. Beyond rising car taxes and
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While some European countries have hastened to follow US President Donald Trump’s example in designating Antifa as a terrorist organisation, Germany is not one of them. In fact, the German Government actively promotes Antifa. Thus, as first disclosed by German journalist Stefan Frank on the Achse des Guten (‘Axis of Good’) blog, last year the German Government funded a full-fledged “guide
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Iain Watson, Political correspondent and Patrick Cowling, Producer, BBC Radio 4’s Immigration: the Danish Way PA Media Shabana Mahmood sent officials to Denmark to study its immigration system The Home Secretary is set to announce a major shake-up of the immigration and asylum system later this month, the BBC has learned. Shabana Mahmood will model
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Sarah Rainsford Southern and Eastern Europe correspondent, in Kyiv BBC The Kyiv Opera’s latest show, Patriots, is a rock opera which features popular anthems of Ukrainian independence I’ve never heard an audience so silent. When the credits rolled on a screening of 2000 metres to Andriivka, no-one in the Kyiv cinema moved. Their popcorn and
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BBC Two Kurdish men agreed to go undercover for the BBC and expose a network behind illegal High Street businesses because the criminals are causing harm to the reputation of Kurds in the UK, they say. The two, who we are calling Saman and Ali, are Kurdish reporters who have both lived legally in the
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Authored by Terri Wu via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Since day one in office, President Donald Trump has taken Beijing on a roller coaster ride of tariffs and export controls. For a regime that is already struggling with a stagnant economy and an international market increasingly wary of Chinese dumping, Trump’s actions have added
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Last week, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro reached out to Russia, China and Iran for possible military aid, after US President Donald Trump mulled a military attack amid a massive buildup of American forces in the region. “The requests to Moscow were made in the form of a letter meant for Russian President Vladimir Putin and was intended
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Serbia’s parliament has passed a law which paves the way for a controversial property development led by US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner in the capital Belgrade. His firm Affinity Partners has sought to build a luxury hotel and apartment complex on the site of the former Yugoslav Army headquarters. The ruined building, which
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Why tech giants are offering premium AI tools to millions of Indians for free Nikita Yadav BBC News, Delhi Future Publishing via Getty Images Artificial intelligence companies are partnering with Indian firms to offer free or subsidised services Starting this week, millions of Indians will get one year of free access to ChatGPT’s new, low-cost
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