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This video of an Iranian couple dancing resulted in a 10-year prison sentence. Iran has clamped down on anti-government protests since the death of Mahsa Amini in September 2022. Soon after Amini’s death, the couple posted this video on social media. Click the link in our bio to read more. #cnn #news #fyp
"Teachers are on their knees", one person who is striking told the Guardian. "We are seeing the impact of a decade of underfunding ... which has left us in a social crisis". Nearly 500,000 workers in the UK walked out today, with unions accusing the government of failing to take negotiations seriously. #strikes #teachersstrike #uknews #london #ukstrikes | Footage shows teachers, alongside other workers, marching through London as part of the UK's biggest day of strikes in a decade | Teachers have said that pay erosion, staff shortages and underfunding is the reason they are taking part in the strikes | Up to half a million people took part in the industrial action, including civil servants, border force staff and train drivers
A court in Tehran has sentenced two young Iranians to ten and a half years in prison for posting a video of themselves dancing in the capital’s Azadi Square, one of the sites of anti-government protests. #iran #iranian #tehran #azadisquare #iranprotests #mahsaamini #womanlifefreedom | An Iranian Influencer Couple Has Been Jailed for 10 Years Each for Dancing in Public
Transparency International’s annual Corruption Perceptions Index ranks 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption, based on a combination of multiple surveys and assessments of corruption. It describes itself as the “most widely used indicator of corruption worldwide.” #top10 #aroundtheworld #ranked #traveltiktok #government #politics #economy #LearnOnTikTok | These Are the ‘Most Corrupt’ Countries in the World
Prominent transgender rights activist Shahzadi Rai was denied boarding a flight by Flydubai, a UAE government-owned airline, because her passport states “X” as her gender. #unitedarabemirates #dubai #traveltiktok #pakistani #lgbt #transgender #transphobia | A Trans Woman Was Stopped from Boarding a Plane Because of Her Gender
"At times we could see half a dozen officials tailing us." See what it was like when government minders followed a CNN reporter while covering China's Covid reality -- and abruptly stopped an interview. #news #china #cnn | Learn more about COVID-19 vaccines
Would you move from the city to the countryside if the government paid you ... and how much would you want? 🤑 #Japan | Why is Japan paying families 1m yen a child to leave Tokyo?
Eight in 10 people in China have now been infected with Covid-19 and there is low risk for a holiday surge around the Lunar New Year celebrations, a Chinese government scientist has claimed. #cnn #news | Learn the facts about COVID-19
Mursal Nabizada, a vocal Taliban critic, is the first legislator with the previous US-backed government to have been killed under the Taliban regime. #afghanistan #afghan #WomenOfTikTok #womensrights #politics #mursalnabizadah | A Former Afghan MP Was Shot Dead in Her Home
At least 68 people were killed when an aircraft went down near the city of Pokhara in central Nepal, a government official said, the country’s deadliest plane crash in more than 30 years. #cnn #news #nepal
Lettuce prices rose 24.9% in December from a year ago, according to government figures. That is nearly triple the increase for fruits and vegetables and significantly higher than the 6.5% overall inflation rate. #lettuce #inflation #foodprices #groceries #vegetables #economy #wsj #thewallstreetjournal #wallstreetjournal | 🍌 bananas are only up 2.37% in December from a year ago | *according to CPI, which measures inflation
The Cambodian government is clamping down on a song by 24-year-old rapper Kea Sokun, asking police to stop it from spreading on social media. The track, titled “Workers Blood,” shows footage from a brutal government crackdown on a 2014 workers’ protest. #Cambodia #KeaSokun #phnomphen #rapper #raptok #hiphop #musicvideo #politics | An Authoritarian Country Is Trying to Ban a Rap Video. Why?
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