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NurPhoto/Getty Employment in the UK dropped by the most since 2009, signalling that more pain may lay ahead for British-based workers, data released Tuesday showed. The number of UK employees on payrolls fell in July by 730,000 from March, when the COVID-19 crisis had just begun. "The alarm bells couldn't…

A child worker pushes a cart with bricks in Meerut city, India. File photo: EPAIndia has more than 56 million children out of school, according to a 2018 study Activists fear children may be used as a stopgap measure to fill jobs left vacant by migrant labourers who returned to…

It's been almost five months since provincial and territorial governments closed child-care services. Now they are allowing them to reopen. Reopening -- like shuttering -- has been chaotic, anxiety-producing and inequitable for families, service providers and the child-care workforce alike. Child-care programs and parents (particularly mothers, who have been picking up a…

FILE PHOTO: A palm oil seed is seen at a plantation in Pulau Carey, Malaysia, January 31, 2020. REUTERS/Lim Huey Teng/File PhotoKUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia’s palm oil inventories at end-July likely plunged 11.94% from June to three-year lows, as production slumped due to a worsening labour shortage amid the…

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Trump pays tribute as Republican dies of Covid-19 Herman Cain, a former Republican presidential candidate, has died from coronavirus. “Herman Cain - our boss, our friend, like a father to so many of us - has passed away,” a message posted on his official website said. Donald Trump paid tribute…

Dear rabble visitors, Can you believe rabble is leaving its teens and turning 20 next April?  With physical distancing as a result of the pandemic, you may remember that we had postponed any 19th anniversary celebration parties back in April (though we may have tossed back a few drinks online!)…

Universities expect record numbers through clearing Record numbers of students are expected to get a university place through clearing this year after places for British students were increased to help offset the fall in those coming from overseas because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Ucas, the admissions service, predicted that 80,000…

Alberta's United Conservative Party, it turns out, is almost as bad at governing as it is good at campaigning. That's probably a better place to be from a political party's perspective than the opposite, as could credibly said of the Alberta NDP, which with 20/20 hindsight looks as if it…

Boris Johnson will celebrate the end of his first year as prime minister in Orkney, a part of the UK in which one storm is gathering as another appears to have passed.It has been more than a month since the island’s last positive test for Covid-19, its ninth in total,…