Specs on, heels off: Japanese activists urge changes to anti-harassment code
Yumi Ishikawa’s feet bled after a day in the high heels required by her job, a memory that led her and other Japanese activists to demand on Tuesday that forcing women to wear certain items be treated as workplace harassment.
Earth’s temperature likely marks hottest decade on record: report
The past decade is almost certain to be the hottest on record, weather experts warned on Tuesday, painting a bleak picture of vanishing sea ice, devastating heatwaves and encroaching seas in a report launched at a climate summit in Spain.
Climate activist Greta Thunberg nears Lisbon port: Reuters TV footage
Climate activist Greta Thunberg was approaching Lisbon aboard a catamaran on Tuesday after crossing the Atlantic from New York, Reuters Television footage showed, before her appearance at a summit in Madrid to demand urgent action on global warming.
Zimbabwe’s Mugabe left behind $10 million, some properties: state media
Zimbabwe’s former leader Robert Mugabe, who died in September, left $10 million and some properties in the capital, but no will naming his beneficiaries, details of his estate published by state-owned newspaper the Herald showed on Tuesday.
Finnish Centre Party says has lost confidence in coalition PM Rinne
Finland’s Centre Party, part of the ruling five-party coalition, said on Tuesday it had lost confidence in Social Democrat Prime Minister Antti Rinne, in a move that will likely force him to resign.
Education levels stagnating despite higher spending: OECD survey
Education performance has largely stagnated in many OECD countries over the last two decades despite higher spending, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development said on Tuesday in a survey of international learning standards.
Russian probe blames pilot for May plane crash that killed 41: Kommersant
Russia has completed an investigation into a plane crash at a Moscow airport in May that killed 41 people, and plans to formally charge the pilot with causing death by negligence, the Kommersant daily said.
Finland’s PM Rinne in crisis talks with Centre allies over his future
Finland’s Social Democrat Prime Minister Antti Rinne held crisis talks on Tuesday morning with the Centre Party, one of five parties in the ruling coalition, aiming to head off a threat that could force him to step down.
NATO will respond to any attack on Poland or Baltics: Stoltenberg
The NATO alliance will respond to any attack on Poland or the Baltic countries, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said in an interview published on Tuesday.
Turkey to oppose NATO plan if it fails to recognize terrorism threats: Erdogan
Turkey will oppose NATO’s plan for the defense of Baltic countries if the alliance does not recognize groups that Turkey deems terrorists, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday, ahead of a NATO alliance summit in London.
