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Is Trump’s drive to kill the paper cheque a ‘no brainer’?
While other countries move online, many Americans still prefer physical payments
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Fall in UK company pension contributions sparks calls for review
Concerns mount over whether businesses are failing short in supporting retirement
Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source:A treasure trove of education reports and studies is under threat
When you’re looking for research on four-day school weeks or how to teach fractions, or trying to locate an historical document, such as the landmark Coleman Report of 1966, you might begin with Google. But the reason that high-quality research results pop up from your Google search is because something called ERIC exists behind the […] The post A treasure trove of education reports and studies is under threat appeared...
Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source:Head Start’s Future Is Uncertain. Rural Americans Aren’t Ready for What Happens Next.
“I think that they are going to, in the next four years, do all they can to try to dismantle the Head Start program,” says Joel Ryan, executive ...
Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source:Johor-Singapore SEZ offers new hope amid US-China tariff war, deputy PM Gan Kim Yong says
Singapore’s Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong said the SEZ presents opportunities for businesses to strengthen supply chains and thrive despite trade uncertainties.
Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source:Harvard faces an existential test of its financial brainpower
There may be room for innovative solutions if university loses fight with the White House
Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source:Countries shore up their digital defenses as global tensions raise the threat of cyberwarfare
Experts in the United States, in particular, are calling for a more muscular approach to protect their digital frontier.
Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source:Pope Francis tried to change the Catholic Church for women, with mixed success
Pope Francis is being remembered as a pastoral leader – and in some ways, his treatment of women in the Catholic Church was unprecedented. But he could have done more.
Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source:Twinkling star reveals the shocking secrets of turbulent plasma in our cosmic neighbourhood
For the first time, astronomers have measured the plasma layers of a shock wave surrounding a pulsar.
Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source:Attempts to reach ceasefire in Ukraine littered with years of failure
The 30-hour "Easter truce" and the reported violations underscore the difficulty in securing even a brief pause in fighting.
Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source:National Park Units Dot America’s Most Endangered Rivers List
National Parks Traveler is a nonprofit news organization focused on dailyeditorial coverage of national parks and protected places. Stay atop their coverage by signing up for theirweekly newsletter. Creeks, streams, and rivers provide a sense of place, a grounding at times, an identity for surrounding communities. They provide a recreational outlet, and can provide food, […]
Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source:Francis, a pope both conservative and unconventional
Pope Francis led the Catholic Church for 12 years. The first Latin American in the office was as much a pastor as a pope, traditional as well as open to change. But he did not fulfill the many hopes for reform.
Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source:Pope Francis's last public appearance on Easter Sunday
The pontiff's last public appearance was for an Easter Sunday blessing at the Vatican's St Peter's Square.
Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source:Pope Francis dead at 88
He was unafraid to wade into politics, publicly feuding with U.S. President Donald Trump over immigration and rebuking U.S. Vice President JD Vance.
Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source:Trump takes tough tone in Putin post after 'productive' meeting with Zelenskyy in Vatican
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Why the Dutch still honour Canadians, 80 years after their liberation from Germany
Canadian veteran Jim Parks is getting ready to visit the Netherlands again, 80 years after playing a role in liberating the country from German occupation. And he can expect a warm welcome.
Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source:What happens if Trump trashes the AGOA pact?
African nations have enjoyed duty-free access to the US market for over two decades under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), up for renewal in September. How prepared are they should Trump refuse to sign it?
Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source:Rights of Nature Defender Wins Goldman Prize for Precedent-Setting Work Protecting an Imperiled River
Mari Luz Canaquiri Murayari, an Indigenous Kukama leader from the Peruvian Amazon, has been awarded the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize for her decades-long fight to protect the Marañón River, home to her peoples’ ancestors and a lifesource for rainforest ecosystems that keep the world livable. The award, announced Monday, recognizes her leadership in advancing the […]
Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source:Nigeria: Why Nigeria Must Prioritise Maternal Mental Health
[Daily Trust] At the heart of each society is a mother--bearing life, giving rise to generations, and holding families together. Yet, even though she is an icon of endurance, courage and self-denial, there is a quiet disease that creeps into her heart, behind closed doors, behind concealed smiles, and behind the sacred duty of motherhood. That illness is maternal mental health disorder--an illness so pervasive and...
Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source:Nigeria: Where Is President Tinubu?
[Daily Trust] Of course, everyone knows that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is in France. He has been there since the second day of this month, just about three weeks now. That one is clear. What is unclear is precisely what Nigeria's president is doing in a foreign country for three weeks, or who is in charge at home right now.
Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source:Abandoning AUKUS: a better way to defend Australia
For more than a century, Australia has followed the same defence policy: dependence on a great power. This was first the United Kingdom and then the United States. Without properly considering other options, successive federal governments have intensified this policy with the AUKUS agreement and locked Australia into dependency on the US for decades to […] The post Abandoning AUKUS: a better way to defend Australia...
Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source:'Professional failures' led to killing of Gaza medics, IDF inquiry says
Fourteen emergency workers and a UN worker were killed when the Israeli military opened fire on a convoy of vehicles in Gaza last month.
Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source:Coalition says a national sex offender register would be a ‘powerful deterrent’. How would it work, and why now?
Proposed 12-month trial would be based on models in WA and UK and overseen by Australian Criminal Intelligence CommissionElection 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaignPolls tracker; election guide; full federal election coverageAnywhere but Canberra; interactive electorates guideListen to the latest episode of our new narrative podcast series: GinaGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily...
Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source:China vows retaliation against countries supporting US-led trade isolation
Beijing has vowed to retaliate if other countries strike trade deals with the United States at the expense of China’s interests, in response to news that the Trump administration is pressuring trading partners to isolate China in negotiations.
Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source:Africa: Risks Persist, Especially for Africa, With U.S. Tariff Pause, Says WTO Chief Okonjo-Iweala
[allAfrica] Geneva -- The head of the World Trade Organization says a temporary tariff pause by the United States mitigates current trade contraction, but substantial downside risks persist, which can heavily impact Africa.
Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source:China pulls back from US private equity investments
Industry executives report change of approach as Beijing bears brunt of Trump’s tariffs
Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source:China warns countries against striking trade deals with US
Washington is reportedly pressuring countries to curb trade with China to avoid huge new US tariffs. Beijing has threatened "countermeasures" against trade partners that act against its economic interests.
Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source:Beijing warns countries not to act against China in trade deals with US
Commerce ministry acts amid concerns that Washington will push trade partners to isolate Chinese goods and businesses
Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source:Coalition promises crackdown on ‘drugs and thugs’ as polls continue to favour Labor
Opposition expected to use final two weeks of the campaign to focus on the traditionally safe grounds of national security, crime and defencePolls tracker; election guide; full federal election coverageAnywhere but Canberra; interactive electorates guideListen to the latest episode of our new narrative podcast series: GinaGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastThe Coalition would crack down on...
Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source:Myanmar junta’s ceasefire breach a show of desperation
Just days after a historic diplomatic initiative led by Malaysia’s Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim in his capacity as ASEAN’s rotational chairman, the ink on Myanmar’s latest ceasefire understanding had scarcely dried before it was shattered. Once again, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing’s Tatmadaw launched fresh bombings, this time targeting Sagaing, the epicenter of a devastating […] The post Myanmar junta’s ceasefire...
Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source:SE Asia keeps the peace 50 years after Vietnam War
On April 30, 1975, the last American helicopter lifted off the roof of the US embassy in Saigon hours before North Vietnamese tanks crashed through the gates of then-South Vietnam’s presidential palace, marking the end of the Vietnam War. Since then, Southeast Asia has been mostly unafflicted by interstate war. There was, of course, Vietnam’s […] The post SE Asia keeps the peace 50 years after Vietnam War appeared...
Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source:US and Philippine forces to conduct ‘full battle test’ in South China Sea
Annual Balikatan exercises underline deepening security partnership between Washington and Manila
Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source:‘We just want to sleep without fear we will be killed in our beds’
Nigerians must be allowed to defend themselves as the state fails them amid the country’s security crisis
Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source:The God Edition | The runner’s high is the smug hill on which I’ll die
We runners, like good churchgoers, are a community, we follow rituals, we try to convert everyone and, best of all, we finally enter the zone
Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source:El Salvador: Bukele suggests prisoner swap with Venezuela
Venezuela's attorney general has described as "cynical" the Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele's proposal to exchange 252 Venezuelan migrants expelled by the United States.
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