Fri 12 August 2022: Baby powder containing talc will no longer be sold anywhere in the world, according to healthcare products giant Johnson & Johnson, more than two years after it ceased doing so in the United States and Canada. Beginning in 2023, the corporation will no longer sell the product on the international market. […]
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Fri 12 August 2022: An alleged member of the Daesh terror group and its ‘Beatles’ cell made up of British militants was charged with terrorism offences after being arrested upon his arrival in the UK. Following his deportation from Turkiye on Wednesday – where he was detained in a maximum-security prison for seven-and-a-half years – and his arrival on British […]
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Fri 12 August 2022: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged Thursday that all military activities immediately stop at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant as Russia and Ukraine traded blame for shelling at Europe’s largest nuclear facility. Guterres expressed grave concern about the unfolding situation in and around the nuclear station in southern Ukraine and implored all military […]
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Fri 12 August 2022: Google has agreed to pay a $60 million fine in response to a protracted legal battle with Australia’s competition watchdog over misleading customers about the collection of their personal location data. In April of last year, a federal court ruled that Google had broken consumer protection laws by misleading certain local […]
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Fri 12 August 2022: Climate change has harmed the Arctic far more severely than previously thought, according to Finnish researchers. According to a new study from the Finnish Meteorological Institute in Helsinki, the Arctic region has warmed about four times faster than the global average during the last 43 years. Some regions of the Arctic […]
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Fri 12 August 2022: For the first time, the Walt Disney Company’s streaming service Disney+ surpassed rival Netflix in total subscribers. The multinational mass media and entertainment corporation located in the United States added 14.4 million Disney+ customers during its fiscal third quarter, which ran from April to June of this year. “We now have […]
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Fri 12 August 2022: NASA predicts that a “potentially hazardous” giant asteroid will pass within 4.3 million km of Earth on Friday. According to NASA’s Centre for Near-Earth Object Studies, the asteroid, dubbed 2015 FF, has a diameter of 13 to 28 meters (CNEOS). According to Live Science, it will pass the Earth at a […]
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Thu 11 August 2022: McDonald’s Corp has announced it is planning on reopening its restaurants in Ukraine during the next few months, in an early sign of Western businesses returning to the country as the conflict continues. “After extensive consultation and discussion with Ukrainian officials, suppliers, and security specialists, and in consideration of our employees’ […]
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Thu 11 August 2022: Former Russian TV journalist Marina Ovsyannikova has been placed under house arrest for two months after being charged with spreading fake news about Russia’s armed forces, Interfax news agency has reported. 🇷🇺 Marina Ovsyannikova, a journalist who protested against Russia’s war in Ukraine during a prime-time news broadcast, holds up a […]
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Thu 11 August 2022: After an outbreak of H5N8 bird flu on a farm in northern Germany, authorities said on Thursday that approximately 110,000 chickens would be slaughtered, Reuters reported. According to the Vechta district council, the disease was verified on an egg-producing farm in Langwege, in the Vechta district of the northern state of […]
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