ONTARIO: Canada’s labour movement is celebrating the defeat of Ontario provincial premier Doug Ford’s draconian anti-worker legislation Bill 28.

The Bill would have imposed a regressive contract and stripped 55,000 Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) education workers in Ontario of fundamental rights.

CUPE’s national president Mark Hancock credited the victory to the power of worker solidarity across public and private sectors, but especially the courage and determination of education workers.

TURKEY: Eight children were among the nine Syrian refugees family members killed in a building fire in the Yildirim district in Bursa province early Wednesday.

The fire was reportedly caused by a stove heater.

KENYA: A Nairobi court has ordered striking Kenya Airways pilots to return to work by yesterday morning after the days-long walkout forced dozens of flight cancellations and left thousands of passengers stranded. 

The Kenya Airline Pilots Association launched the strike at Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on Saturday, defying a court order issued last week against the industrial action.

Hours after the court instruction the union said their members would return to work.

IRAN: Iranian authorities have charged two women journalists, Niloufar Hamedi and Elaine Mohammadi, with “propaganda against the state” as they continue their crackdown on protests across the country.

Iranian authorities have been rocked by protests sparked by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini for allegedly breaking the strict dress codes for women.

The two journalists have both already spent more than a month in detention.