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Recession-hit UK needs more migrant labour: business lobby
Britain needs more migrant labour to boost productivity as it faces a toxic mix of soaring inflation and shrinking growth, the country's main business lobby group warned Monday. "Britain is in the middle of stagflation -- rocketing inflation and negative growth -- for the first time that probably most of us can remember.
E.Africa troops to 'enforce peace' in east DR Congo
Kenyan President William Ruto said Monday that East African troops would "enforce peace" in embattled eastern DR Congo, where the M23 armed group have launched an offensive. The M23 is just one of around 120 armed groups which are active in eastern Congo.
Erdogan says mulling ground operation in Syria
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday he was mulling going beyond air strikes and launching a ground operation in Syria following a deadly rocket strike on a Turkish border town. Erdogan spoke after a rocket strike from Syrian territory killed at least three people, including a child, in a border Turkish town.
No backsliding on Brexit, says UK PM
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Monday denied that his government was seeking to row back on the UK's EU withdrawal deal, despite an apparent growing backlash against Brexit. Former prime minister Boris Johnson, a staunch critic of his predecessor Theresa May's plan for Swiss-style ties, eventually won the argument with his harder version of Brexit.
Lufthansa launches hiring drive as recovery gathers pace
Lufthansa on Monday launched a drive to hire 20,000 employees, as the German airline giant recovers strongly from the coronavirus pandemic and seeks to tackle staffing shortages. Lufthansa said it was seeking the new hires in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Belgium, with roles ranging from pilots and flight attendants to technicians and IT specialists.
South African appeal court orders Zuma back to jail
An appeal court in South Africa said on Monday that former president Jacob Zuma was unlawfully given medical parole from a jail term last year and should return to prison to complete his sentence. Parole was granted by the head of South Africa's prison service, despite an opinion by the service's medical committee that Zuma did not meet the required conditions.
Spain's high-speed rail competition heats up with new entrant
Competition in Spain's high-speed rail market is heating up with a new operator starting passenger services on Friday, making it Europe's first nation with three players in the sector. Competition in the high-speed rail sector has its limits.
Iran seeks to quell protests with death sentences, activists warn
Iran, already one of the world's most prolific users of the death penalty, is planning to use capital punishment as a means to quell the protest movement by spreading a climate of fear in the population, activists warn.
Jihadist-hit Mali has 150,000 children in legal limbo
Nearly 150,000 children displaced by violence in jihadist-torn Mali have no birth certificates and could be denied education as a result, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) said on Monday. Of these, more than half of displaced children -- 148,600 -- "do not have state-issued birth certificates proving their legal identity," the NRC said, describing the tally as "staggering."
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