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WELLINGTON: Around 50,000 teachers in New Zealand went on strike on Thursday, after union talks with the Ministry of Education aimed at improving salaries and conditions stalled. Teachers demanding better pay waved placards declaring “can’t afford the dentist” and “too poor to print good signs” as the one-day strike forced kindergartens as well as primary and secondary schools to close …

ISLAMABAD: About 50,000 children in Gilgit-Baltistan were involved in child labour, said a report launched on Wednesday. The new report estimates prevalence of 13.1 per cent child labour in GB, with one in seven children is working. Many children work in hazardous conditions and are almost twice as likely to report mental health problems, according to ‘Gilgit-Baltistan Child Labour Survey …

The law enforcement arm of the U.S. Postal Service is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of suspects who authorities say were involved in robberies and thefts at post offices in the Dallas area. One of the incidents occurred between 12:15 and 12:25 p.m. June 28 at the post office at 1502 E. Kiest Blvd. in …

KARACHI: A consignment of 50,000 testing kits — sufficient for testing suspected Covid-19 patients for the next 15 days — has arrived through the flight of a private courier service after Sindh got “no response from Islamabad” on its request to allow cargo flight operations to bring imported items from China and the United Kingdom, officials and industry sources said …

HOUSTON, Texas — A U.S. Postal Service mail carrier was shot as he was delivering mail early Saturday afternoon in a Spring Branch Woods neighborhood. Neighbors on Cedardale St. said they heard four gunshots. No one directly witnessed the shooting, but when they looked out their windows, they said they saw the carrier trying to drag himself along the sidewalk. …