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OXNARD, California (Reuters) -Lisa Tate is a sixth-generation farmer in Ventura County, California, an area that produces billions of dollars worth of fruit and vegetables each year, much of it hand-picked by immigrants in the U.S. illegally. Tate knows the farms around her well. And she says she can see with her own eyes how…
Breaking News | China | NewsChinese woman jailed over Covid reporting in Wuhan is set to be freed
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Von der Leyen Survives No Confidence Vote by Taking the Knee to the Left
The vote of no confidence against Commission President Ursula von der Leyen failed on Thursday, as mainstream and progressive political groups lined up behind her despite the clear controversies surrounding ‘Pfizergate’. During the vote in the European Parliament, 553 MEPs cast their votes out of a total of 720. Of those, 175 supported the motion…
Canada’s NATO membership on the line as allies become ‘frustrated’ and ‘disappointed’
Canada has failed to hit domestic military spending goals and fallen short in funding new equipment, frustrating allies in the White House and around Europe. Canada has become an outlier among the 32-member NATO alliance in recent years, and it seems the country may not be able to hold out for much longer. Ottawa has failed to hit…
Brics to more than double with admission of six new countries
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