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Tales of extravagantly wasteful spending have circulated in China for years, as cities and provinces accumulated debts to build infrastructure and boost the country’s GDP. These debts have reached extraordinary levels—and the bill is now arriving.

The new sanctions list 12 senior officials from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Law Enforcement Forces (LEF) who have participated in gross and systematic human rights violations in Iran, including through the lethal suppression of demonstrations across Kurdish areas of Western Iran.

"Some may call it greed, but we also keep pets and eat livestock, that’s because there is a demand, so how is it any different to fur trade?”, one fur garment seller says.

As you may have expected, many popular Android apps for pets as well as farm animals are putting their users at risk by exposing sensitive personal data, researchers say.

With the exception of a temporary federal law providing paid sick leave to certain employees between March and December 2020, the United States remains one of the few developed countries without federal paid sick leave protection for workers.

A spokeswoman for Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez said Canadians will not be intimidated and called it disappointing that Google is borrowing from Meta's playbook. The new Online News Act requires digital giants such as Google and Meta, which owns Facebook, to negotiate deals that would compensate Canadian media companies for republishing their content on their platforms.

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Tanya Plibersek made the decision following a consultation process after an initial assessment in August 2022. The reef has been the centre of controversy for several years, with climate change just one of several factors posing threats.

"Shell’s Board is legally required to manage risks to the company that could harm its future success, and the climate crisis presents the biggest risk of them all", the organization says.

"These studies fail on both scientific and ethical grounds", one researcher argues.

A new report claims that Indigenous management plays a key role in protecting Canada’s waters. "A whole-of-government approach is necessary to provide more certainty for First Nations’ stewardship of their lands and waters,” the report says.

Carine Smith Ihenacho, the chief governance and compliance officer of Norges Bank Investment Management, which manages more than 13tn Norwegian kroner (£1tn) on behalf of the Norwegian people, said the fund was preparing to vote against the re-election of at least 80 company boards for failing to set or hit environmental or social targets.