Angeliki Tziaka moved to the U.K. soon after the Greek government began cutting pensions and public sector wages in the first bailout program agreed upon with international creditors in 2010. She felt the choice was clear: work abroad or risk a long spell of unemployment at home. “I’d recently graduated in medicine and I wanted […]
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Sky News could face the chop if network hampers Murdoch takeover
Published time: 8 Nov, 2017 11:59 The Sword of Damocles is hanging over Sky News, ready to slice the UK news network if it becomes an obstacle in the merger between Sky and Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox. Fox currently owns 39 percent of Sky, but is now vying for full control. The deal is […]
Tobacco industry hampers global strategy to stop smoking epidemic – WHO
The global tobacco industry continues to interfere with governments’ efforts to implement the World Health Organization’s (WHO) policy package which aims to reduce peoples demand for tobacco, the UN agency has said. Countries that are signatories to WHO’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control are bound by the international treaty to implement the so-called MPOWER policy, […]