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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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