GENEVA -- Reduced working hours and more flexible working time arrangements, such as those used during the COVID-19 crisis, can bring benefits for economies, businesses and workers, such as greater productivity and improved work-life balance, a new report released by the International Labour Organization (ILO) on Friday, Jan. 6, found.
ROME -- Pushed by higher energy and fertilizer prices stemming from the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, global food prices were 14.3% higher in 2022 than a year earlier, the Rome-based United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Friday, Jan. 6.
WASHINGTON -- A six-year-old boy shot and gravely injured a teacher during an "altercation" Friday in an elementary school in the eastern United States (US) state of Virginia, said local police.
China objected Tuesday to new COVID-19 testing requirements for Chinese travelers that has been put in place by a number of countries, saying the measures "lack scientific basis."
WARSAW -- Poland had asked for the intervention of the United Nations (UN) over World War II reparations with Germany, a Polish deputy foreign minister said on Tuesday, Jan. 3.
