EU reaches new deal to salvage law on platform workers. But will countries stir up another revolt?

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The European Parliament and the Council struck on Thursday a new deal on a draft law to improve the conditions of platform workers, after the previous agreement had been derailed in a last-minute revolt.

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00:00 Seven royal artefacts looted 150 years ago by British colonial forces from Ghana's

00:07 ancient Ashanti kingdom and kept by a US museum were unthoroughly returned to the kingdom.

00:13 It is the latest of a series of stolen treasured items being repatriated to several African

00:18 countries.

00:19 We are here today to commemorate the deeds of the white man who came to the Ashanti man

00:26 to loot and destroy.

00:33 All seven items were being returned unconditionally and permanently though the kingdom allowed

00:39 their replicas to be made, the museum said.

00:44 Museums love to shine light on beauty.

00:47 At the Fowler Museum we will no longer have these wonderful pieces on display.

00:53 We are honoured by your offer to have replicas made for us so that we will however have the

00:59 opportunity to tell our visitors a better story.

01:04 They were looted from colonised Ghana in the 19th century before being transferred to Fowler

01:12 Museum at the University of California, Los Angeles in the 1960s.

01:20 I heard about our artefacts from our forefathers and our fathers.

01:25 They told us about the artefacts and they told us as a kid I had that vision that one

01:34 day we should have all these artefacts back into our Ashanti nation.

01:39 After decades of resistance from European and Western governments and museums, the effort

01:44 of African countries to repatriate stolen artefacts paying off with the increasing return

01:49 of treasured pieces.

01:51 Activists though save thousands more are still out of reach.

01:55 (speaking in foreign language)

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