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Bloomberg
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Bloomberg
Jesse Armstrong Couldn't Stop Thinking About Tech Bros
Succession 's creator is back with Mountainhead, a new book pillories the morals of the megarich, and extreme heat forces tough choices for India's laborers. By Save Welcome to the weekend! On Tuesday, a SpaceX rocket that shares its name with the band behind 'We Built This City' exploded during a test flight. What name is that? Test your knowledge with this week's Pointed quiz.
Washington Post
14-05-2025
- Health
- Washington Post
Rights groups say migrant workers are dying on Saudi job sites as kingdom prepares for World Cup
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Scores of laborers from countries including India, Bangladesh and Nepal have faced preventable deaths from electrocution, road accidents, falling from heights, and more while working in Saudi Arabia, according to a report Wednesday by the advocacy group Human Rights Watch. Human Rights Watch and another rights group, FairSquare, released separate investigations Wednesday detailing preventable deaths of migrant workers from job-site accidents and work-related illnesses.
Asharq Al-Awsat
12-05-2025
- Politics
- Asharq Al-Awsat
Cyprus Says Syria Will Take Back Citizens Trying to Reach the Mediterranean Island by Boat
Syria has agreed to take back any of its citizens intercepted trying to reach Cyprus by boat, the Mediterranean island nation's deputy minister for migration said Monday. Nicholas Ioannides says two inflatable boats, each carrying 30 Syrians, were already turned back in recent days in line with a bilateral search and rescue agreement that Cyprus and Syria now have in place. Officials didn't share further details about the agreement. Cypriot navy and police patrol boats intercepted the two vessels on May 9th and 10th after they put out a call for help. They were outside Cypriot territorial waters but within the island's search and rescue area of responsibility, a government statement said. They were subsequently escorted back to a port in the Syrian city of Tartus. Ioannides told private TV station Antenna there's been an uptick of boatloads of migrants trying to reach Cyprus from Syria, unlike in recent years when vessels would primarily depart from Lebanon. Cyprus and Lebanon have a long-standing agreement to send back migrants. He said Cypriot authorities and their Syrian counterparts are trying to fight back against human traffickers who are supplying an underground market for laborers. According to Ioannides, traffickers apparently cut deals with local employers to bring in Syrian laborers who pick up work right away, despite laws that prevent asylum-seekers from working before the completion of a nine-month residency period. 'The message we're sending is that the Cyprus Republic won't tolerate the abuse of the asylum system from people who aren't eligible for either asylum or international protection and just come here only to work,' Ioannides said. The bilateral agreement is compounded by the Cypriot government's decision last week not to automatically grant asylum to Syrian migrants, but to examine their applications individually on merit and according to international and European laws. From a total of 19,000 pending asylum applications, 13,000 have been filed by Syrian nationals, according to figures quoted by Ioannides. Since Assad was toppled in December last year and a new transitional government took power, some 2,300 Syrians have either dropped their asylum claims or rescinded their international protection status, while 2,100 have already departed Cyprus for Syria. Both the United Nations refugee agency and Europe's top human rights body have urged the Cyprus government to stop pushing back migrants trying to reach the island by boat. Cyprus strongly denies it's committing any pushbacks according to its definition.
The Independent
12-05-2025
- Politics
- The Independent
Cyprus says Syria will take back citizens trying to reach the Mediterranean island by boat
Syria has agreed to take back any of its citizens intercepted trying to reach Cyprus by boat, the Mediterranean island nation's deputy minister for migration said Monday. Nicholas Ioannides says two inflatable boats, each carrying 30 Syrians, were already turned back in recent days in line with a bilateral search and rescue agreement that Cyprus and Syria now have in place. Officials didn't share further details about the agreement. Cypriot navy and police patrol boats intercepted the two vessels on May 9th and 10th after they put out a call for help. They were outside Cypriot territorial waters but within the island's search and rescue area of responsibility, a government statement said. They were subsequently escorted back to a port in the Syrian city of Tartus. Ioannides told private TV station Antenna there's been an uptick of boatloads of migrants trying to reach Cyprus from Syria, unlike in recent years when vessels would primarily depart from Lebanon. Cyprus and Lebanon have a long-standing agreement to send back migrants. He said Cypriot authorities and their Syrian counterparts are trying to fight back against human traffickers who are supplying an underground market for laborers. According to Ioannides, traffickers apparently cut deals with local employers to bring in Syrian laborers who pick up work right away, despite laws that prevent asylum-seekers from working before the completion of a nine-month residency period. 'The message we're sending is that the Cyprus Republic won't tolerate the abuse of the asylum system from people who aren't eligible for either asylum or international protection and just come here only to work,' Ioannides said. The bilateral agreement is compounded by the Cypriot government's decision last week not to automatically grant asylum to Syrian migrants, but to examine their applications individually on merit and according to international and European laws. From a total of 19,000 pending asylum applications, 13,000 have been filed by Syrian nationals, according to figures quoted by Ioannides. He said most of those applicants are Sunni Muslim and are no longer persecuted as they had been under the government of former President Bashar al-Assad. Since Assad was toppled in December last year and a new transitional government took power, some 2,300 Syrians have either dropped their asylum claims or rescinded their international protection status, while 2,100 have already departed Cyprus for Syria. Both the United Nations refugee agency and Europe's top human rights body have urged the Cyprus government to stop pushing back migrants trying to reach the island by boat. Cyprus strongly denies it's committing any pushbacks according to its definition. ___
