Fri 24 December 2021: After a lower court ruled this month that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can be extradited to the United States on spying charges, his legal team has filed an application to appeal to Britain’s Supreme Court. The lawyers filed an appeal on Thursday, arguing that the US government’s promise that the founder […]
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Fri 24 December 2021: Personal Consumption Expenditures – a measure of inflation – surged 5.7 percent in November over the same period a year ago. Dig out your cassette tapes and your Sony Walkman, because the United States economy is having a very 1980s kind of moment. Personal Consumption Expenditures, a measure of underlying inflation […]
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Thu 23 December 2021: The labour market recovery is staying the course, despite the threat of Omicron. Applications for state unemployment benefits in the United States were unchanged last week, signalling that the labour market continues to recover even as the Omicron variant of the coronavirus spreads across the country. Initial jobless claims – a […]
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Thu 23 December 2021: Following claims that Tesla permitted games to be played on the front center touchscreen while driving, the US has opened a formal investigation. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is leading the investigation, which affects around 580,000 electric cars and SUVs from model years 2017 to 2022. The function, called […]
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Thu 23 December 2021: The Australian government will pay Aboriginal people more than $1 million for a “racist” initiative. The Community Development Programme is a “work for the dole” program that was expected to provide about 25 hours of work each week to 30,000 people. Because they were only paid A$10 per hour, critics have […]
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Thu 23 December 2021: Sajid Javid, the United Kingdom’s Health Minister, has confirmed that no further restrictions will be announced after Christmas. “We’re clear that there’s no need for any further restrictions of any type before Christmas but of course, we will keep the situation under review,” he said. He further added that people “should enjoy their Christmases with their families and their friends,” but at the same time, they need to […]
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Thu 23 December 2021: As part of a pact reached by 136 countries, the European Union (EU) has imposed a 15% tax rate on multinational corporations. The tax will be imposed on multinational enterprises with an annual turnover of more than $916 million in two consecutive years that are members of the bloc. According to […]
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Thu 23 December 2021: France’s purchase for Merck & Co’s Covid antiviral medicine was canceled on Wednesday, according to the French health minister. After the trail data revealed disappointing results, this step was taken. The order has been publicly canceled for the first time in France. Pfizer’s medication is now expected to arrive in the […]
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Thu 23 December 2021: Turkey launched mass production of its domestically developed COVID-19 vaccine Turkovac on Wednesday after receiving emergency use approval following studies on volunteers that demonstrated its efficacy. Turkey quickly took action once the country’s first coronavirus case was reported in March 2020 and launched studies to develop its first vaccine to combat […]
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Thu 23 December 2021: The World Health Organization’s chief has warned that the rush to distribute additional COVID-19 vaccine doses in wealthy countries is worsening inequity in access to vaccines, which is prolonging the pandemic. On Wednesday, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus insisted that getting vaccines to vulnerable people everywhere, rather than giving additional doses […]
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