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EU parliament approves extra $57.9bln package to help states mitigate COVID consequences

Moscow/Sputnik: The European Parliament on Wednesday approved the REACT-EU proposal to provide additional 47.5 billion euros ($57.9 billion) to EU member states to help them cope with the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic. more

First glimmer of hope in decades for Black Sea and Mediterranean fish stocks

New York:The number of fish stocks subject to overexploitation in the Mediterranean and Black Sea has fallen for the first time in decades, offering some hope that a dangerous decline can ...

ILO study finds migrants earn much less than locals, and the gap is widening

New York: The gap between wages paid to migrant and national workers is big and growing, and may widen further because of the pandemic, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said in ...

Green recovery policies once in lifetime opportunity to raise climate ambitions in Asia-Pacific

Bangkok: While much of the attention this year has been focused on protecting populations as well as the socio-economic impacts and recovery needed, high-level officials from across the A ...

Guterres spotlights ‘critical role’ of aviation in pandemic recovery, marking International Day

New York: The UN Secretary-General has called for greater support for the aviation sector, badly hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, to allow it to better weather the global economic crisis spa ...

Japan to adopt new economic stimulus package worth more than $707 billion: Suga

Tokyo/Sputnik: Japan will adopt new stimulus measures on Tuesday including a package worth 73.6 trillion yen (over $707 billion) aimed at supporting the economy amid the coronavirus pande ...

US govt announces to block cotton import from forced labour camps in Xinjiang

Washington: The US government has said it will block cotton imports from forced labour camps in China's Xinjiang region where millions of Uyghur Muslims are persecuted.

Would pursue trade policies to produce progress on China’s abusive practices: US President-elect Joe Biden

Washington: US President-elect Joe Biden has said his goal as the head of the country would be to pursue trade policies which are actually more progressive on China’s abusive practi ...

Multinationals in US lobby against Xinjiang forced labour bill: Report

New York: Major multinational companies and business groups are lobbying Congress to weaken a bill that would ban imported goods made with forced labor in China’s Xinjiang region, m ...

Despite border clashes, China falls back on India for rice import

New Delhi: At a time when India and China are engaged in a bitter border standoff for quite sometime now, Beijing started importing Indian rice after a gap of two years and placed orders ...