Activists and workers say migrant workers in Pocheon work 10 to 15 hours a day, with only two Saturdays off per month. Activists and workers say migrant workers in Pocheon work 10-15 hours a day, with only two Saturdays off per month. Just 10% of the 200,000 migrant workers brought to South Korea under its Employment Permit System, or EPS, work on farms. Migrant farm workers are more vulnerable than factory workers since rules about working hours, breaks and time off don’t apply to agriculture.

The bill under consideration in Oregon would make intimidation by display of a noose a misdemeanour punishable by up to a year in prison and a $6,250 fine. Greg Evans, a Black man who joined a parade of witnesses urging Oregon lawmakers to ban the display of nooses, said the issue was personal for him: A member of his family had been lynched over a century ago in South Carolina. The bill under consideration in Oregon would make intimidation by display of a noose a misdemeanour punishable by up to a year in prison and a $6,250 fine. Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler and city commissioners urged the committee to support the bill, saying it “opens the door for legal remedies" against intimidating people with nooses in Oregon, where records show hate crimes and bias incidents increased 366 percent in 2020.

Global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions rose slightly in December compared with the same month of 2019, indicating the sharp drop seen due to the pandemic was short-lived. Figures released Tuesday by the International Energy Agency show emissions from the production and use of oil, gas and coal were two percent higher in December 2020 than a year earlier."The rebound in global carbon emissions toward the end of last year is a stark warning that not enough is being done to accelerate clean energy transitions worldwide," said the agency's executive director, Fatih Birol. By December, U.S. energy emissions were close to the levels seen in the same month of 2019, the agency said, attributing this to economic recovery and greater coal use due to higher gas prices and colder weather.

The world has changed around Holmes and his Blue Front Café, the country’s oldest surviving juke joint. Mary ran the Blue Front during the day while Holmes worked with his father in the fields. Growing up, Holmes learned from his neighbor, “the father of the Bentonia blues.” Henry Stuckey, an aging World War I veteran, played to entertain Holmes and his 13 siblings on their porch. Before the pandemic, Mississippi musicians performed at the Blue Front every other Friday, sometimes more, playing different blues styles.

There are two types of encryption that are commonly used on routers, computers, and other devices: Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) and Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP). First and foremost, you should consider enabling any available options to limit the number of devices that can access your network, which you can do either through your computer’s Wi-Fi or directly through your router’s app. PC users can check the status of their router’s encryption by right-clicking on the Internet Access toolbar icon and selecting Properties. Remote access can be disabled via accessing your router directly or using an app.

A group of African, Caribbean, and Pacific countries have supported India for supplying COVID-19 vaccines to different developing and least developed nations. St. Lucia, on behalf of CARICOM group of countries expressed appreciation and thanked India and South Africa for vaccine supplies to them. Similarly, in its intervention, Jamaica, on behalf of ACP (African, Caribbean and Pacific) Group of countries, also thanked Indian efforts in delivering vaccine supplies to developing and least-developed countries (LDCs). Therefore, we recognize the efforts of countries such as India and South Africa that have arranged delivery of vaccines to many developing countries and LDCs.

Prime Minister will seek a confidence vote in the National Assembly, or parliament’s lower house, on Saturday after his finance minister lost an election for a seat in the upper house, the biggest test yet for his three-year-old government. The developments followed a surprise loss for the prime minister in the country’s Senate after Finance Minister Abdul Hafeez Shaikh lost a tightly fought battle for a seat in the indirectly elected house against the opposition-backed former Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani. Seats to the Senate are voted on by the directly elected members of the powerful National Assembly and Khan is seeking the vote to show he still commands a majority there despite Shaikh’s loss, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi told a news conference after the election.A vote of confidence is conducted through an open recording of votes making it harder for Khan’s allies to vote against him, said Hasnain Malik, head of equity strategy at Tellimer Dubai Ltd.

Preliminary studies suggest that the variant that swept through the city of Manaus is not only more contagious, but it also appears able to infect some people who have already recovered from other versions of the virus. And the variant has slipped Brazil’s borders, showing up in two dozen other countries and in small numbers in the United States. Although trials of a number of vaccines indicate they can protect against severe illness even when they do not prevent infection with the variant, most of the world has not been inoculated. That danger of new variants has not been lost on scientists around the world.

An Indian drug company said late Wednesday that initial results from clinical trials involving nearly 26,000 subjects showed that a homegrown Indian vaccine was both safe and effective. The company, Bharat Biotech, said that its Covaxin vaccine had an initial efficacy rate of 81 percent. Covaxin had been approved by government officials in January and administered to millions of people before it had been publicly proved to be safe or effective. Many people in India, including frontline health care workers, had feared Covaxin could be ineffective or worse, slowing down New Delhi’s campaign to inoculate 1.3 billion people.