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Czech labor unions on Wednesday joined with opposition parties to protest the government's proposed bid to raise the retirement age by four years to 68.Some 2,000 protesters gathered Wednesday in front of government offices in the capital Prague to voice their opposition to the plan.We definitely don't agree, read a letter ratified at the gathering.

TAIPEI, Taiwan Taiwan's former president, Ma Ying-jeou, will be setting off on Monday for the first visit to China by any sitting or former Taiwanese leader since China's civil war ended with the Nationalist government retreating to the island from the mainland in 1949.Though the 12-day visit by Mr. Ma, who was president from 2008 to 2016, is unofficial, it is likely to be watched closely at home and abroad for clues on how Beijing might seek to influence Taiwan, its democratic neighbor, ahead of a presidential election in January.

Is TikTok's time up?That's the question coursing through the halls of Congress, Wall Street, and the public writ large after the social media company's chief executive, Shou Zi Chew, waffled for hours before US lawmakers on Thursday.TikTok's fate in the US is on shakier ground than ever following lawmakers' grueling questioning of Chew, Insider Intelligence principal analyst Jasmine Enberg said.

French President Emmanuel Macron is looking to "calm things down" after his government barely survived a no-confidence motion over an unpopular pension reform.Mr Macron does not plan any reshuffle or snap elections and has ruled out withdrawing the pension law, which will raise the retirement age by two years to 64, according to a source who took part in meetings between Mr Macron and key allies on Tuesday.

CBC projects NDP candidate Sarah Jama, 28, to be the next MPP for Hamilton Centre.Jama, a disability and housing activist, maintained a strong lead over the Liberals's Deirdre Pike, with 38 out of 53 polls counted.The byelection was held to replace former Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath, who stepped down as MPP in the summer to run for mayor.

A Twitter page of Chinese exiled businessman Guo Wengui is seen on a computer screen in Beijing on Aug. 30, 2017.The self-exiled Chinese businessman was arrested Wednesday in New York on charges that he oversaw a billion-dollar fraud conspiracy.Andy Wong/AP NEW YORK A business tycoon long sought by the government of China and known for cultivating ties to Trump administration figures including Steve Bannon was arrested Wednesday in New York on charges that he oversaw a $1 billion fraud conspiracy.

Republican Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington said Sunday that TikTok represents an immediate threat from China and called for the short-form video app to be banned in the US.The chairwoman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee said on CNN's State of the Union that Congress should pass a data privacy law and ban TikTok in the US after the company's CEO Shou Chew testified in front of her committee on Thursday.

Greater London Authority has banned TikTok from all London City Hall devices in the latest ban on Chinese-owned app (Image: PA) Staff at London City Hall will no longer have TikTok on their devices in the latest ban imposed on the Chinese-owned social media app over security concerns.It comes as the Greater London Authority (GLA) said the rule was implemented as it takes information security extremely seriously.

L ondon City Hall staff will no longer have TikTok on their devices in the latest ban imposed on the Chinese-owned social media app over security concerns.The Greater London Authority (GLA) said the rule was implemented as it takes information security extremely seriously.It comes after the UK Government banned ministers from using the video-sharing app on their work phones following a security review.

London City Hall staff will no longer have TikTok on their devices in the latest ban imposed on the Chinese-owned social media app over security concerns.The Greater London authority (GLA) said the rule was implemented as it takes information security extremely seriously.It comes after the UK government banned ministers from using the video-sharing app on their work phones after a security review.

London City Hall staff will no longer have TikTok on their devices in the latest ban imposed on the Chinese-owned social media app over security concerns.The Greater London Authority (GLA) said the rule was implemented as it takes information security extremely seriously.It comes after the UK Government banned ministers from using the video-sharing app on their work phones following a security review.

London City Hall staff will no longer have TikTok on their devices in the latest ban imposed on the Chinese-owned social media app over security concerns.The Greater London Authority (GLA) said the rule was implemented as it takes information security extremely seriously.It comes after the UK Government banned ministers from using the video-sharing app on their work phones following a security review.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping is due to meet Vladimir Putin in Moscow in a political boost for the isolated Russian president after the International Criminal Court (ICC) charged him with war crimes in Ukraine.r Xi's government gave no details of what the Chinese leader hoped to accomplish.Mr Xi and Mr Putin declared they had a "no-limits friendship" before the February 2022 attack on Ukraine, but China has tried to portray itself as neutral.

The United Kingdom government has banned use of Chinese social media platform TikTok among ministers and officials on their work devices as a "precautionary" measure over worries the app is used to snoop on Brits.Speaking to Parliament this afternoon, Oliver Dowden, chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Secretary of State who oversees Cabinet Office policy, said the ban would have immediate effect and applied to devices issued within ministerial and non-ministerial departments, but not to "personal devices for government employees or ministers or the general public."

Jose Maria Sison, the founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines and its long-running guerrilla insurgency, died on Friday in exile in the Netherlands, where he had lived for decades.He was 83.His death, in a hospital in Utrecht, was announced by a spokesman for the party, Marco Valbuena, who called him a great Marxist-Leninist-Maoist thinker and revolutionary leader.

For a long time during the coronavirus pandemic, China's aggressive approach to stamping out cases worked.It has kept deaths from Covid-19 much lower than the rest of the world, most notably in comparison with the United States.But in recent months, that approach, called zero Covid, seemed increasingly outdated.

FBI Director Chris Wray believes TikTok poses threats to national security as a Chinese-owned app that doesn't share our values and could manipulate content.The popular video-sharing app, owned by the Chinese technology company ByteDance, boasted more than 1 billion active global users last year, a majority of which are American.

Cuba and Russia are united by sanctions and historic confrontations with the United States.On Tuesday, the leaders of the two countries  Miguel Diaz-Canel and Vladimir Putin  met in Moscow to strengthen their bond.While Cuba's delegation to the United Nations General Assembly has abstained on resolutions to condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Diaz-Canel  the president of Cuba and the first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba  has been far less tepid in his support of the Kremlin.

Almost 90% of people in China's third most populous province have now been infected with Covid-19, a top local official has said, as the country battles an unprecedented surge in cases.Kan Quancheng, director of the health commission for central Henan province, told a press conference that as of January 6, 2023, the province's Covid infection rate is 89%.

Cities across China also scrambling to install hospital beds and build fever-screening clinics amid a widening COVID-19 outbreak.Crematoriums in cities across China are straining to deal with an influx of bodies amid a widening COVID-19 outbreak, according to media reports, as authorities scrambled to install hospital beds and build fever-screening clinics.