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Canada Hits Record Population Growth Through Immigration

For the first time in its history, Canada grew by over 1 million people last year and most of them were newcomers, signaling that the federal government’s ambitious goal of boosting immigration to fill labor shortages is within reach. Canada’s population growth rate of 2.7 percent in 2022 put it among the world’s 20 fastest

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The U.K.’s Wave of Strikes Explained: Why Is It Ending?

The strikes trickled in at first and then came like a flood. As labor disputes gained momentum in Britain last year, postal workers, train drivers, nurses, teachers and others walked out, some for the first time ever, as they demanded higher pay or better working conditions. The strikes — concentrated, like the strength of Britain’s

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Zelensky Tours Kherson as Ukraine Tries to Raise Pressure on Russian Forces

Medical services have been severely disrupted all across Ukraine since Russia began its invasion in February 2022.Credit…Lynsey Addario for The New York Times Chronic diseases have gone untreated. Villagers have not been allowed to leave their homes to obtain much-needed medicines. With their closest medical center destroyed, some Ukrainians have been forced to take perilous

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In Israel, Another Divisive Law on Another Day of Mass Protest

Israel’s Parliament passed legislation early Thursday that would make it more difficult to declare prime ministers incapacitated and remove them from office, a move that critics said was aimed at protecting the country’s leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, who is on trial for corruption. Under the legislation, the latest in a series of divisive bills pursued by

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New Day of Strikes in France as Pension Anger Persists

Workers went on strike and demonstrators marched around France on Thursday for the first big day of protests since President Emmanuel Macron shoved an increase of the retirement age to 64 from 62 through Parliament without a full vote, a test of the unions’ ability to maintain their pressure and the president’s ability to weather

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