The measure, which the government has been pushing for months, provides for two paid days off a week instead of the current one and reduces the maximum workweek from 44 to 40 hours. Lula is counting on the bill's passage to close the gap with right-wing rival Flavio Bolsonaro ahead of the October 25 runoff.

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PHNOM PENH: A nationwide environmental cleanup campaign will run from Sept 18 to 30 to remove plastic waste and raise awareness of the growing threat it poses to the planet.

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About one in every 25 Australians under the age of 18 has been the victim or knows a victim of artificial intelligence-assisted online sexual abuse, according to a new study.

The man's case is one of the last appeals filed in the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal before the law changed in September last year.