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Russia’s President Vladimir Putin on Saturday signed a law that allows debt forgiveness for new recruits signing up to fight in Ukraine, government announced. The new legislation allows those signing up for a one-year contract to have their bad debts of up to 10 million roubles (€92,000, $95,835), written off. Law won’t apply to those already enlisted The law — approved by parliament earlier this month — will be applicable to potential recruits who have had debt collection proceedings initiated against them before December 1. Those who have already been enlisted would not be eligible for the new measure to attract manpower. Russia has faced a high attrition rate of its forces as its ongoing invasion of Ukraine grinds on. In October, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutter said that over 600,000 Russian forces had been killed or injured in Ukraine since the war began in February 2022. Rutte said that it...

Germany’s center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Christian Social Union (CSU) — currently leading in polls ahead of the election on February 23 next year — want to cut welfare benefits and get more of the country’s 5.5 million long-term unemployed into the labor market.  They are also openly questioning whether Ukrainians should receive the standard unemployment benefit, called Bürgergeld (“citizens’ income”) rather than the lower asylum-seeker benefits. Following Russia’s full-fledged invasion of Ukraine, refugees arriving in Germany and were subject to an EU Council Directive for temporary protection in the event of a mass influx of displaced persons for whom the regular asylum procedures do not apply. They were granted temporary residency status and entitled to full social welfare benefits. The CSU’s Stephan Stracke, social policy spokesman for the CDU/CSU’s parliamentary group, told DW that while anyone fleeing “war and violence” had a right to protection, “This does...

Security agencies in the Philippines raised safety measures on Saturday after Vice President Sara Duterte threatened to have the country’s President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. assassinated. Duterte spoke during a morning press briefing and said that she had spoken to an assassin, instructing him to kill Marcos, his wife, and the speaker of the Philippine House, if she herself were to be killed. ‘Do not stop until you kill them’ — Vice President Duterte’s threat “This country is going to hell because we are led by a person who doesn’t know how to be a president and who is a liar,” Duterte said in the profanity-laden briefing broadcast on her Facebook page before making the brazen threat. “I have talked to a person. I said, if I get killed, go kill BBM (Marcos), (first lady) Liza Araneta, and (Speaker) Martin Romualdez. No joke. No joke,” Duterte said, referring to the initials...

A California agency charged with slowing health costs has set a lofty goal for insurers to direct 15% of their spending to primary care by 2034, part of the state’s effort to expand the primary care workforce and give more people access to preventive care services. The board of the state Office of Health Care Affordability in October set its benchmark well above the industry’s current 7% primary care spending rate, in hopes of improving Californians’ health and reducing the need for costlier care down the road. “It’s ambitious but achievable,” said Elizabeth Landsberg, director of the state’s Department of Health Care Access and Information, which oversees the affordability agency. “Plans and health systems need time to build the infrastructure to really change the way they’re providing care.” But California’s target comes just six months after the affordability board set an annual cap of 3.5% for overall growth in health care spending, potentially squeezing...

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Cet article est une version actualisée de l’enquête data publiée le 13 mars 2024. L’Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique (Arcom) a infligé, le 13 novembre, deux sanctions pécuniaires à la chaîne d’information CNews : 100 000 euros pour avoir présenté l’avortement comme « la première cause de mortalité » lors d’une émission, le 25 février, et 50 000 euros pour avoir propagé et commenté de fausses informations sur la mise à disposition d’une salle de prière lors d’un voyage scolaire par un collège de Pau, en septembre 2023. Ces deux sanctions ne sont que les dernières d’une longue série de manquements aux obligations (pluralisme de l’information, maîtrise de l’antenne, publicité, diffusion…) signifiés par l’Arcom aux deux chaînes d’information du groupe Bolloré, CNews et C8. Elles surviennent après la décision de l’Arcom, en juillet, de ne pas renouveler l’autorisation de diffusion de C8 et de NRJ12 sur la TNT à la suite de ses nombreuses mises en garde, mises en demeure...