Topic: Labour & Workers — Neutral reports only
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[2026-05-20 08:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-05-20 07:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: Samsung at crossroadsCourt, president put brakes on Samsung Electronics labor strife
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[2026-05-20 06:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Socialists in Bolivia, mobilized through the national labor union, highland farmer federations, and supporters of former left-wing President Evo Morales, have ignited social unrest over the U.S.-backed, market-oriented policy agenda of President Rodrigo Paz.
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[2026-05-20 06:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Wed 20 May 2026 at 6:31am
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[2026-05-20 06:27 UTC+10:00] [career] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: LONDON — Andy Burnham has long traded on his outsider status as the mayor of Greater Manchester. But it’s a team of old hands in Westminster that will be instrumental in putting the man known as the “King of the North” on the cusp of running the U.K.
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[2026-05-20 06:24 UTC+10:00] [Australia news] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Former governor general resigned over his handling of child sexual abuse in the Anglican church. Follow updates live
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[2026-05-20 05:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: A former Conservative defence secretary has quit his job with a missile manufacturer over concerns he broke the rules governing the employment of former ministers.
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[2026-05-20 05:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-05-20 05:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Mackenzie Shirilla’s father, Steve Shirilla, has been placed on leave at his place of employment following backlash to his interview in Netflix’s The Crash documentary, which details the 2023 criminal case in which Mackenzie Shirilla was convicted of murder, following a deadly car crash in Strongsville, Ohio.
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[2026-05-20 04:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Wed 20 May 2026 at 4:51am
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[2026-05-20 04:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The European Union has promised “exceptional support” for farmers affected by rising fertiliser costs linked to the US-Israeli war on Iran.
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[2026-05-20 04:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (ATTN: ADDS more info in paras 2, 11-12; ADDS photo)
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[2026-05-20 04:17 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Federal] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Young business leaders have united to lobby Anthony Albanese to rethink his capital gains tax revamp as reform advocate Allegra Spender urges Labor to move cautiously to avoid economic pain and the Coalition launches its campaign to draw family businesses into their tax battle.
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[2026-05-20 04:05 UTC+10:00] [British politics] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Politico
Snippet: LONDON — Defence Secretary John Healey has told his party’s warring leadership rivals that the “very credibility of Labour in government is at stake,” as the contenders to replace Keir Starmer as prime minister set out their stalls.
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[2026-05-20 03:51 UTC+10:00] [Meta] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Some employees will be moved to new teams focused on AI agents and cloud infrastructure
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[2026-05-20 03:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (ATTN: UPDATES throughout)
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[2026-05-20 03:34 UTC+10:00] [Airspace] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Three NATO countries collaborated to shoot down a Ukrainian drone flying over European Union territory on Tuesday.
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[2026-05-20 03:30 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: America is fast becoming a country with two economies: A stagnant one for men and a growing one for women. So far this year, the US has created more than 165,000 private-sector jobs, and 72 percent of them went to women. To some extent this reflects a structural change in the economy, as growth is in industries more likely to employ women, such as health care.
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[2026-05-20 03:13 UTC+10:00] [Barcelona] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Two off-duty officers allegedly assaulted a sex worker in a taxi in Ciutat Vella, according to police in Catalonia
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[2026-05-20 02:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: More than 60 MPs are calling for a rethink of the UK's first-past-the-post voting system, which they have labelled "broken".
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[2026-05-20 02:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Europol, the official law enforcement agency of the European Union, announced on Monday that it had disrupted 14,200 online posts linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
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[2026-05-20 02:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: THE Department of Transportation (DOTr) and the Light Rail Transit Authority (LRTA) have signed a credit line agreement with state-run LandBank to pay the government’s P3.6 billion contractual obligations to Light Rail Manila Corp. (LRMC), the private operator of LRT-1.
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[2026-05-20 02:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-05-20 02:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, May 20 (Yonhap) -- Samsung Electronics Co. and its largest labor union will resume government-led wage mediation talks on Wednesday morning, a state labor dispute resolution body said, after they failed to bridge differences during two days of marathon negotiations this week.
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[2026-05-20 02:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-05-20 02:05 UTC+10:00] [Technology] [Factuality: 92]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Nearly 48,000 workers are threatening an 18-day walkout amid fears of global memory chip shortages
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[2026-05-20 02:03 UTC+10:00] [Buildings] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: STRASBOURG — The thousands of people who work in the European Parliament’s administration are supposed to be non-political, per EU law. But staffers complain that many of the Parliament’s plum jobs are instead going to people with political connections.
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[2026-05-20 01:32 UTC+10:00] [Bonds] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: LONDON — Andy Burnham’s team is working on a plan for his first 100 days in government in the event that the Labour politician wins a crunch by-election and replaces Prime Minister Keir Starmer, three people who have worked with the Greater Manchester mayor told POLITICO.
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[2026-05-20 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Homelessness] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Street Connect allows people to flag the location of a rough sleeper, triggering an outreach worker to visit them
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[2026-05-20 00:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Israelis filed 30,366 complaints to the Public Complaints Commission in 2025, a 41% increase from the previous year, with the sharpest rise linked to failures in the Labor Ministry unit responsible for daycare and after-school subsidy approvals, according to a State Comptroller report published on Tuesday.
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[2026-05-20 00:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: WASHINGTON, May 19 (Yonhap) -- The Office of U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) said Tuesday it will host the Group of 20 (G20) trade ministers' meeting in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, this fall to discuss ending forced labor, address structural excess capacity and production, and other key issues.
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[2026-05-20 00:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: SEOUL — Samsung Electronics and its South Korean labor union began another round of government-mediated talks on Tuesday to break an impasse in negotiations over pay and bonuses and avert the biggest strike in the tech conglomerate's history.
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[2026-05-19 23:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Local Spain
Snippet: Tax return deadline, schools break up for summer, increase in electricity and gas prices, changes to asylum rules, new salary transparency law, festivals, protests and more - here's everything to know about June 2026 in Spain.
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[2026-05-19 22:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: The Labour Party has officially confirmed Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham as its candidate to stand in the Makerfield by-election.
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[2026-05-19 21:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (ATTN: UPDATES with mediator's remarks in paras 3-6)By Kim Han-joo
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[2026-05-19 20:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: New York's MTA reached a tentative labor deal with five Long Island Rail Road unions, ending the first LIRR strike in more than 30 years. Roughly 3,500 workers walked off the job Saturday, sparking commuter chaos for several hundred thousand people who heavily rely on the train service.
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[2026-05-19 20:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — Leaders and representatives from the civil society, academe, labor, and business on Tuesday called for sobriety and unity in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) after its education minister is facing ouster over corruption allegations involving over P2 billion in "disbursement lapses" in his office.
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[2026-05-19 20:00 UTC+10:00] [Regulation] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ProPublica
Snippet: These highlights were written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story.
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[2026-05-19 20:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-05-19 18:23 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Hyundai Card said Tuesday that EMV contactless payments by its customers have surged roughly 30-fold since the launch of Apple Pay in South Korea in 2023, highlighting how the service has accelerated the country’s shift toward global tap-to-pay standards.
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[2026-05-19 17:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Source says man, 38, did not wear protective gear and police have contacted Labour Department to conduct investigation at housing estate
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[2026-05-19 17:56 UTC+10:00] [Hong Kong] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Source says man, 38, did not wear protective gear and police have contacted Labour Department to conduct investigation at housing estate
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[2026-05-19 17:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (ATTN: ADDS more info throughout)By Kim Han-joo
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[2026-05-19 17:01 UTC+10:00] [Business] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Michael West Media
Snippet: Don't pay so you can read it. Pay so everyone can!
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[2026-05-19 16:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: New Zealand Finance Minister, Nicola Willis, holds a press conference in her office at Parliament in Wellington, New Zealand, March 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Charlotte Graham-McLay, File)
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[2026-05-19 16:38 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: An imminent strike threat is the latest illustration of how Samsung Electronics' decadeslong "no-union" policy left the tech giant vulnerable, according to the main opposition People Power Party's candidate for Gyeonggi Province governor, Yang Hyang-ja.
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[2026-05-19 16:34 UTC+10:00] [Sport / Rugby Union] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Waratahs hooker Ioane Moananu thrives in rugby’s tightest spaces. His role primarily involves short carries into a wall of opposition bodies, grinding a scrum forward or popping up at the back of a maul to muscle over for a try.
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[2026-05-19 16:21 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: From chips to shipyards, unions push aggressive profit-sharing demands, fueling anxiety over wider labor unrest
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[2026-05-19 16:18 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 90]
Source: 9News
Snippet: The federal opposition has opened the door to a potential partnership with One Nation in an attempt to unseat the Labor government. Opposition Leader Angus Taylor this morning refused to rule out working with One Nation, after the minor party rode a recent record wave of support to steal voters and the seat of Farrer from the Coalition."I will work with whoever I can work with to stop Labor getting those taxes through and I will work with whoever I
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[2026-05-19 16:16 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Mediators signal possible room for compromise as political, economic pressure mount
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