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Stop selling products that use monkey labor - UK PM's fiancee tells retailers
Prime Minister Boris Johnson's fiancée Carrie Symonds on Friday welcomed pledges by four British retailers to stop selling coconut products that use monkey labour in their production, and urged others to do the same. Investigators documented monkeys displaying "stereotypic repetitive behaviour", indicative of extreme stress. The animals are chained to old tyres and kept in cramped cages with no ... [Full Article...]
Zuckerberg to meet civil rights groups that organised ad boycott
Zuckerberg called the boycott a "reputational" issue, saying it threatened only a "small percent" of Facebook's revenue and predicting advertisers would return to the platform "soon enough", according to The Information . Nick Clegg, Facebook's vice president of global affairs and communications, said Wednesday that the company "does not benefit from hate" and encouraged critics who are "angry ab... [Full Article...]
Air France Discussing Thousands of Job Cuts
The company will cut 7,850 jobs including 6,560 at Air France and 1,020 at the short-haul subsidiary HOP! The cuts will take place over the next three years. Union associates and staff members staged protests at many web-sites across France on Friday, like exterior the firm's workplaces in the vicinity of Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport. [Full Article...]
Health Unit reports 35 new COVID-19 cases Saturday
It also brings the five-day average of new cases below 150 for the first time in months. Another 21 new cases, meanwhile, were in Windsor-Essex where the province continues to conduct targeted testing on temporary farm workers. Ontario has 31,083 resolved cases. So far 994 individuals have recovered from the virus in Windsor-Essex. The total number of people who have died from COVID-19 was 2,6... [Full Article...]
Original Defender spirit lives on as Ineos reveals Grenadier design
Visually, the similarities between the Ineos Grenadier and original Defender are clear. The Ineos Grenadier - a rival for the classic Land Rover Defender , Mercedes G-Class and Jeep Wrangler - will protect occupants in a crash, but will fall short of a five-star result due to a lack of advanced safety aids and a focus on heavy-duty hardware, the company says. [Full Article...]
Dead, 4 Hurt After Shooting at Walmart Center in CA
Elizabeth Community Hospital and treated for minor to moderate injuries. Some of the 200 workers inside the facility locked themselves in a room , employees told KHSL-TV. 'I just know it was a lot'. 'I was only anxious about the people that were injured by the auto into the building, ' said. As they were running, he said, they heard 50 to 60 gunshots - at which point they picked up their s... [Full Article...]
Vietnam opens world's 'first' gold-plated hotel to tourists amid the coronavirus lockdown
This hotel is gold plated from room to bathroom. A night stay here will cost you $ 250 or approx Rupees 18600. And the pandemic which has strafed global tourism has not put him off opening , with Vietnam winning praise for its swift lockdown which has contained the coronavirus spread. [Full Article...]
Legal industry adds jobs for a second month after huge April loss
In June, the leisure and hospitality sector added 2.1 million new jobs, or two-fifths of the total new payrolls over the month. Many businesses, particularly small ones, are shutting down for good even though the lockdowns have been largely lifted. [Full Article...]