More Tidbits of Global News – June 20, 2022

Transgender swimmers have been banned from women’s elite races. Here’s what that means.

https://www.mamamia.com.au/transgender-swimmers-ban/

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Great Britain braces for biggest rail strike in 30 years

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jun/20/great-britain-faces-biggest-rail-strike-in-30-years-starting-on-tuesday

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Analysis-Italian banks’ government debt risks: real or just deja-vu?

http://www.reuters.com/article/italy-banks-sovereign-idUSKBN2O109U?utm_source=34553&utm_medium=partner

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Spirals of blue light in New Zealand night sky leave stargazers ‘kind of freaking out’

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/20/lights-spiral-new-zealand-night-sky-nz-blue-light-spirals

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Paul Haggis arrested in Italy over sexual assault allegations

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Australians brace for new bloodbath

https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/www.news.com.au/finance/markets/australian-markets/week-of-pain-predicted-for-australia-as-stock-market-heads-into-rocky-territory/news-story/521c2eb4956bd5823357c2944c3205d7%3famp

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With regard to purchasing power measures, the unions are demanding, among other things, a higher minimum wage, structural measures to absorb the high energy prices and better and affordable public services, such as childcare.

Trade unions protest in Brussels on Monday for more purchasing power: De Lijn and STIB services disrupted | Inland

Trade unions protest in Brussels

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