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Berlin court orders German capital to ban most diesel vehicles on 11 major roads to counter pollution

Berlin court orders German capital to ban most diesel vehicles on 11 major roads to counter pollution

Berlin could shut out diesel drivers from major arterial roads next year, after a court on Tuesday ordered the German capital to follow in the footsteps of Hamburg, Frankfurt and Stuttgart with exclusion zones. A renewed focus…

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Donald Trump demands ‘answers’ from Saudi Arabia over missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi

Donald Trump on Wednesday demanded Saudi Arabia provide answers over the disappearance of journalist and US resident Jamal Khashoggi, whom Turkish officials suspect was murdered after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. The Trump administration sharply…

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Justice will ‘catch up with’ Burma generals, warns UN expert ahead of release of Rohingya report

A leading United Nations human rights investigator has slammed Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma’s civilian leader, for acting as a “fig leaf for military atrocities” against the Rohingya minority. In an interview ahead of Tuesday’s…

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Quebec public workers face religious clothing ban under secularism law

Canadian public employees may be banned from wearing religious clothing under a “secularism law” being proposed in Quebec. Plans to forbid public employees from wearing religious symbols, including a Jewish kippah or a hijab, were announced by the centre-Right Coalition Avenir Quebec…

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World’s largest biometric ID system approved by Indian court as 1 billion enroll for welfare and tax

India’s Supreme Court ruled that the country’s controversial biometric identity scheme, the world’s largest, is constitutional and does not violate the right to privacy. The court however curtailed the scope of the Aadhaar identification scheme, declaring that…

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