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Bangladesh factory disaster survivors plead for justice 10 years on
Bangladeshi garment worker Sumi Akhter feared for her safety, but was told to start her shift or risk forfeiting her wages. Huda was detained by police in 2016 for reporting on wage protests in garment factories and spent months in jail, which he believes was retribution for showing Rana Plaza was at risk of collapse.
A real gem: in Bahrain, only natural pearls will do
Customers at a Bahrain jewellery store study displays of pearls that are, unusually, 100 percent natural -- the result of attempts to preserve a centuries-old industry. "Each person... who owns or gets a piece of jewellery that contains natural pearls knows no one else has the same."
Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch drops January 6 defamation case in Australia
Fox Corporation chief executive Lachlan Murdoch on Friday dropped a high-profile defamation case against an Australian website that accused his family's conservative media empire of fuelling the 2021 US Capitol riots.
Asian markets track Wall St losses on rate, recession fears
Asian markets fell Friday on lingering recession worries as data indicated the US economy was slowing down, while Federal Reserve officials pressed their case for further interest rate hikes to battle stubborn inflation. But while that suggests inflation could come down, there is a worry that a recession is coming.
Brazil may surpass US as world's No. 1 corn exporter
On his farm in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil's grain basket, Ilson Jose Redivo finished planting his corn crop a few weeks ago, acting quickly once he'd harvested the soybeans that he'd grown on the same fields.
The Big Sort: Twitter ticks check out
Elon Musk's long promised move to strip free blue ticks from Twitter users swung into action on Thursday, dividing the have-paids from the have-nots. "My Twitter account says I've subscribed to Twitter Blue.
Twitter's blue ticks start vanishing
Twitter began the mass removal of its blue ticks on Thursday, as the symbol previously used to signify a verified account vanished from users including the Pope, Donald Trump and Justin Bieber. But on Thursday high-profile accounts, as well as those of many reporters at AFP and other news organizations, appeared to have had the checkmarks removed.
Reports show meager profit outlook for midsized US banks
Banks were among the poorest-performing sectors on Wall Street Thursday, after earnings from midsized lenders pointed to a weakening profit outlook in the aftermath of a recent industry crisis. There was also an increase in the interest rate for deposits that has pinched its profit outlook.
BuzzFeed to close news operation
BuzzFeed announced Thursday that it was shutting its news division as part of cost-saving cuts, signalling the end of one of the most notable news websites of the internet era. But in late 2011 it founded BuzzFeed News, which won a number of awards and became a symbol of a new wave of internet media companies.
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