AMLO announces 20% hike in Mexico's minimum wage
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Left-wing Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced Friday that the country's minimum wage will increase to about $1.75 per hour come Jan. 1.
About one-third of Mexico’s registered workers report earning the minimum wage, which will amount to about $1.75 per hour starting Jan. 1.
In pesos, the minimum will rise from about 207 pesos to about 248 pesos. The minimum is higher in areas along the northern border, where living costs are higher. There, the 20% increase would take the minimum to about 375 pesos, or about $21.50.
UNRWA is facing new allegations that its former and present leadership have met with Hamas and other terror-related groups. This comes as another NGO says agency-run schools continue to teach hate.
Netanyahu hails 'historic' fall of Bashar Assad in Syria, credits Israeli attacks on Hezbollah, Iran
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that the fall of Bashar Assad's regime in Syria is "fraught" with danger, but hailed the development regardless.
A lightening Syrian Islamist offensive over just days contributed to the demise of the over 50-year reign of the Assad Baathist regime in Damascus.
Canada has announced a ban on more than 300 assault-style firearms in an effort for more stringent gun control. Government officials have suggested donated to Ukraine for its continued war effort.
The Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne, Australia was set on fire early Friday morning in what authorities believe was a deliberate arson attack on the Jewish house of worship.
The family of Austin Tice, a former Marine turned journalist who was kidnapped by jihadist militants in 2012 while reporting in Syria, say he is still alive, citing a “significant source."
Amid a fast moving seizure of Syrian cities by a U.S.-classified Islamist terrorist group, the power politics of the Mideast is rapidly changing quickly.
The conflict in Syria has escalated dramatically, and Islamist rebels have caught many by surprise with rapid territorial gains at the expense of the Assad regime.
Human rights activist Narges Mohammadi, who is imprisoned in Iran on charges including spreading propaganda, had her jail term suspended to undergo medical treatment.
Fox News Digital reviewed plans, and was shown video of a Hezbollah terrorist describing the group’s plan to kill or capture Israeli civilians in its planned invasion of the Galilee region.
In southern Lebanon, Israeli forces confront entrenched Hezbollah positions and question UNIFIL’s ability to enforce its mandate even before the cease-fire agreement was drawn up.