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Britain Mulls Making Firms Disclose Ethnicity Pay Gap
The British government is considering making companies reveal the pay gap between white and non-white workers, in a bid to end disadvantages faced by employees from ethnic minorities.
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China Says Accusations Against Alleged Spy ‘Out of Thin Air’
China says accusations against an alleged spy of attempting to steal trade secrets from several American aviation and aerospace companies were 'made out of thin air.'
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Former FIFA Official Makudi at Court for Ban Appeal Hearing
From FIFA executive committee member Worawi Makudi is at the Court of Arbitration for Sport challenging his ban for forgery ahead of a Thailand soccer federation election.
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Transgender Girl Barred From All Locker Rooms Gets Apology
A Virginia school district superintendent has apologized to a transgender middle schooler who was barred from using the boys’ or girls’ locker rooms during an active shooter drill.
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Heavy Clashes Between IS, US-Backed Fighters in Syria
Rival groups are reporting intense battles in eastern Syria between the Islamic State group and U.S.-backed fighters.
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Zimbabwe Arrests Protest Organizers as Economy Plunges
Lawyers say police in Zimbabwe have arrested dozens of trade union members ahead of a planned protest in the capital over the worst economic crisis in a decade.
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German Minister Slams Far-Right Plans to Report Teachers
Germany’s justice minister has sharply condemned efforts by a nationalist party to establish online platforms where students and parents can report teachers expressing personal political thought.
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Israeli Court Hears US Student’s Appeal Against Detention
An American graduate student is appealing her detention at Israel’s international airport over allegations she promotes a boycott of the Jewish state.
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Forgotten South African Artist Gets a Retrospective Show
The abstract work of South African artist Christo Coetzee, who died in 2000, was widely shown around the world, including at a 1961 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Yet Coetzee is largely unknown in his home country, an outsider whose experimental methods seemed alien to both the early apartheid-era establishment and later protest art that rejected white rule.
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The Latest: NASA Says 2 Astronauts in Good Condition
The Latest on the failed space launch carrying two astronauts (all times local):