Mon 20 January 2025: The global economic outlook is pressured by uncertainties, fragmentation, and debt, according to the World Economic Forum’s Chief Economists Outlook survey report released on Thursday. The report is based on a survey of the world’s leading private sector chief economists. Some 56% of the respondents expect weaker economic growth this year, […]
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Sun 19 January 2025: The incoming administration of US President-elect Donald Trump is pushing for regime change in Venezuela, citing Nicolas Maduro’s rigged elections, political repression and escalating threats to American territories, according to American media reports on Saturday. Axios reported that Trump’s team advocates Maduro’s removal without military action. “We wouldn’t mind one bit […]
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Sun 19 January 2025: China’s population fell for the third consecutive year in 2024, the data released on Friday showed, indicating that the trend is likely to continue in the world’s second most populous country even faster in the coming years, as well as a shortage of working-age people. Last year, the population in China […]
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Sun 19 January 2025: The British government has planned to develop a new strategy to advance the nation’s artificial intelligence (AI) sector, which will raise living standards and economic growth by generating thousands of new jobs. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced the AI Opportunities Action Plan, which would help contribute to a “decade of […]
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Sat 18 January 2025: The EU on Friday demanded X hand over more details about its algorithms and any future changes as part of its wide-ranging probe into the platform, as Elon Musk’s outbursts on European politics ramp up pressure for the bloc to act. Musk, who will be a part of Donald Trump’s incoming […]
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Sat 18 January 2025: TikTok announced Friday that it would disable access to its popular video app for more than 170 million Americans beginning Sunday unless the Biden administration takes action to ensure the company will not face penalties for violating the ban. That was after the US Supreme Court upheld the controversial ban of […]
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Sat 18 January 2025: Apple and Samsung’s smartphone sales fell 4.1% and 2.7% respectively in the last quarter of 2024, compared to the same period of the previous year, according to market research company International Data Corporation (IDC). Meanwhile, global smartphone sales increased by 2.4% reaching 331.7 million units in the last quarter of 2024, […]
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Sat 18 January 2025: Global unemployment remains near a historical low of 5%, but significant challenges are slowing the full recovery of labor markets, according to the latest report of the International Labor Organization (ILO) released Thursday. While the unemployment rate stabilized in 2024, the ILO highlighted widening inequalities, high youth unemployment, and the lasting […]
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Britain’s Home Secretary Yvette Cooper. Fri 17 January 2025: Home Secretary Yvette Cooper says government will also undertake a ‘rapid’ review of child sexual abuse in the UK. The United Kingdom’s government has announced it will back new local inquiries into child sexual abuse and undertake a “rapid” review of the extent of child sexual […]
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Fri 17 January 2025: Technology firms’ layoffs fell 42% on an annual basis, according to data from the Layoffs.fyi website as compiled by Anadolu. The data showed that some 549 tech firms worldwide laid off 152,000 workers in 2024. Last year, 1,193 tech firms reduced their workforce by 264,000 people. The website has been measuring […]
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