Thousands of Indonesian workers protest against president’s job decree

JAKARTA (Reuters) – Thousands of workers held rallies in Indonesia’s capital Jakarta on Saturday, urging parliament to reject a presidential decree that critics say would erode employees’ rights and environmental protections. President Joko Widodo issued the emergency decree last month, replacing a controversial jobs law in Southeast Asia’s largest economy, a move some legal experts …

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Soccer-Everton’s board of directors to skip Southampton game over security concern

(Reuters) – Everton’s board of directors have been advised not to attend their Premier League home game against Southampton later on Saturday due to a “real and credible threat to their safety and security”, the club said. Everton said that Chairman Bill Kenwright, CEO Denise Barrett-Baxendale, Chief Finance & Strategy Officer Grant Ingles and Non-Executive …

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Thousands of Tunisians rally against president on revolution anniversary

By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) – Thousands of protesters marched against Tunisian President Kais Saied’s seizure of near total power in central Tunis on Saturday, demanding he step down as they marked the anniversary of a key date in the 2011 revolution that brought democracy. The central Habib Bourguiba Avenue, the traditional site for major …

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Detienen en Brasilia a Anderson Torres, exministro de Bolsonaro

BRASILIA, 14 ene (Reuters) – El exministro de Justicia del Gobierno de Jair Bolsonaro y exsecretario de Seguridad Pública de Brasilia Anderson Torres fue detenido el sábado tras llegar a Brasil, dijo a Reuters un abogado del exfuncionario. Torres está acusado de omisión y connivencia que habría facilitado los ataques de radicales bolsonaristas el fin …

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Loeb marca récord en el Dakar con su sexta victoria de etapa consecutiva

14 ene (Reuters) – Sébastien Loeb batió el sábado el récord del Rally Dakar al sumar seis victorias de etapa consecutivas, mientras el vigente campeón, el qatarí Nasser Al-Attiyah, quedó a las puertas de conquistar su quinto título en la categoría de coches. El francés Loeb, nueve veces campeón del mundo de rally, logró su …

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China’s COVID fever and emergency hospitalisations have peaked -health official

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – COVID fever and emergency hospitalisations have peaked in China and the number of hospitalised COVID patients is continuing to decline, a Chinese health official said on Saturday. Nationwide, “the number of fever clinic visitors is generally in a declining trend after peaking, both in cities and rural areas,” Jiao Yahui, an official …

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Irán ejecuta a un ciudadano británico-iraní; Reino Unido condena acto “barbárico”

DUBÁI/LONDRES, 14 ene (Reuters) – Irán ha ejecutado a un ciudadano británico-iraní que fue viceministro de Defensa, informó el poder judicial el sábado, desafiando así los pedidos de Londres para que fuera liberado tras ser condenado a muerte acusado de espiar para Reino Unido. Londres, que había declarado que el caso de Alireza Akbari, de …

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China reports 59,938 COVID-related hospital deaths since Dec. 8

BEIJING (Reuters) – China said nearly 60,000 people with COVID-19 had died in hospital since it abruptly dismantled its zero-COVID policy in early December, a big increase from previously reported figures that follows global criticism of the country’s coronavirus data. Between Dec. 8 and Jan. 12, the number of COVID-related deaths in Chinese hospitals totalled …

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Soldados israelíes matan a dos hombres armados palestinos en Cisjordania

YENÍN, Cisjordania, 14 ene (Reuters) – Soldados israelíes mataron el sábado a dos hombres armados palestinos en Cisjordania, en lo que testigos describieron como una escaramuza desencadenada por una incursión del Ejército cerca de una ciudad conflictiva. En Yenín y sus alrededores se han intensificado las redadas militares tras una oleada de atentados callejeros en …

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