By Lewis Jackson SYDNEY (Reuters) – Is your boss texting you on the weekend? Work email pinging long after you’ve left for home? Australian employees can now ignore those and other intrusions into home life thanks to a new “right to disconnect” law designed to curb the creep of work emails and calls into personal …
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KYIV (Reuters) -Russia launched attacks on northern, eastern and southern Ukraine, killing at least four people and injuring 37, Ukrainian military and local authorities said on Sunday. Overnight attacks targeted Ukraine’s frontline regions of Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv and Donetsk, Ukraine’s air force said on the Telegram messaging app. Russia has been pummelling Ukrainian border regions …
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By Alasdair Pal SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian employees now have the right to ignore their bosses outside working hours thanks to a new law which enshrines the “right to disconnect.” Here are key facts about the law, which came into force on Monday: WHAT DOES THE LAW SAY? Employers will still be able to contact …
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(Reuters) -Ryan Evans, a member of the Reuters team covering the war in Ukraine, was killed and two Reuters journalists were injured in a strike on a hotel in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, the news agency said on Sunday. Evans, who was working as a safety adviser for the agency, was killed after …
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By Tom Sims and Rene Wagner FRANKFURT (Reuters) -German police said they were holding a 26-year-old Syrian man in custody on Sunday after a knife attack in the city of Solingen in which three people were killed and eight injured, adding that they were looking into the suspect’s possible links with Islamic State. The incident, …
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By Maytaal Angel and Maya Gebeily JERUSALEM/BEIRUT (Reuters) -Hezbollah launched hundreds of rockets and drones at Israel early on Sunday, as Israel’s military said it struck Lebanon with around 100 jets to thwart a larger attack, in one of the biggest clashes in more than 10 months of border warfare. Missiles were visible curling up …
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CAIRO (Reuters) – Hamas said on Sunday that it rejects new Israeli conditions put forward in Gaza ceasefire talks, casting further doubt on the chances of a breakthrough in the latest U.S.-backed effort to end the 10-month-old war. Months of on-off talks have failed to produce an agreement to end Israel’s devastating military campaign in …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine on Sunday called on Belarus to pull back what it described as significant levels of Belarusian forces and equipment deployed at their common border. The Ukrainian foreign ministry warned Belarus against making “tragic mistakes” while under pressure from Moscow. A ministry statement urged the Belarus armed forces “to stop unfriendly actions” …
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By Michael Georgy DUBAI (Reuters) – Islamic State has described the 26-year-old Syrian man taken into custody after a stabbing rampage in the western German city of Solingen as a “soldier” of the group. Though largely crushed by a U.S.-led coalition several years ago, IS has managed some major attacks while seeking to rebuild. They …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Sunday that Pavel Durov, the Russian-born founder of the Telegram messaging app, miscalculated by fleeing Russia and thinking that he would never have to cooperate with the security services abroad. Medvedev related a conversation he had with Durov several years ago in which Medvedev told …
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