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Bangladeshi workers vindicated by European court over forced labor in 2013The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ordered Greece to compensate 42 Bangladeshi nationals to the tune of more than half a million euros for essentially turning a blind eye to their exploitation on a strawberry farm in southwestern Greece in 2013.Chastising Greek authorities for failing to protect the migrants, the ECHR ordered Athens to pay each plaintiff between 12 and 16,000 euros.The workers were shot at while protesting over unpaid wages and forced labor on a strawberry farm near the town of Manolada. The incident led to about 20 foreign workers sustaining injuries.The workers resorted to the ECHR after a Greek court in 2014 acquitted the employers of the charge of forced labor, slapping them with minor fines, to the disgust of unions and rights groups.
Ofcom moves to cut superfast broadband prices
Authorities install 'penis seat' on Mexican public transportThe seat features in an online video in which a number of male passengers appear shocked as they attempt to sit down. A sign on the floor immediately below the seat reads: "It is annoying to travel this way, but not compared to the sexual violence women suffer in their daily commutes."
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Don't you think, Brian, that the easier communication has become the less people actually say to each other?
I remember back in 1995 when I was the first person in Kilkis to have internet access, Tony - back then it was 56Kbps (if you were lucky) and my phone bill went from 10,000 drs a month to 80,000 drs because it involved the dial-up modem calling Thessaloniki. No such thing as cheap long-distance calls back then. How times have changed!!!
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