Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the Opera Bastille to voice their anger and despair. Many are bitter that while non-essential shops were allowed to reopen two and a half weeks ago, theatres, cinemas and...
Digital reckoning: EU regulators move to tame Big Tech
Has Silicon Valley met its match? The European Commission unveiling its double-barreled blueprint for reining in the unchecked power of Big Tech. We ask about draft bills to regulate free speech online and the use of...
China accused of forcing 570,000 Uighurs to pick cotton in Xinjiang
Hundreds of thousands of ethnic minority labourers in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region are being forced into picking cotton by hand through a coercive state labour scheme, a report has said. Rights activists...
Exporting banned pesticides: EU’s double-dealing tactics?
Since the #EU banned the use of various dangerous #pesticides in its member states, agrochemical giants have continued to produce them in Europe and export them perfectly legally. In fact, business is booming. In 2018...
Christmas easing “will cost many lives” warn leading UK medical journals – BBC News
There’s growing pressure on the four home nations of the United Kingdom to look again at the easing of Covid restrictions over the Christmas period. Two leading medical journals have joined forces to warn that the...
Xinjiang: New reports on detention and forced labor of China’s ethnic minorities | DW News
New revelations on China’s coercive control over Uighur, Kazakh and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang province. A US think tank finds evidence of forced labor at Xinjiang cotton farms. DW meets a former inmate...
Boko Horam claims kidnapping of more than 300 Nigeria schoolboys | DW News
In his voice message, Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau said his militia was behind Friday’s nighttime kidnapping of more than 300 schoolboys, online newspaper The Daily Nigerian reported on Tuesday. At least 333...