The agreement on the export of Ukrainian grain is extended. A Turkish official who wished to remain anonymous confirmed this to the French news agency AFP on Thursday. However, the deal basically expired Friday night. The official said that the agreement will be extended “under the same conditions” that have […]
Tesla Helps Investigate Chinese Crash But Denies Runaway Car
Tesla is helping a police investigation into a crash of one of its cars in China. However, the American producer of electric cars already states that the Model Y SUV that crashed at high speed earlier this month did not run wild. Images of the crash caused a stir last […]
Nintendo Falls on Lower Japanese Stock Market, China Stock Markets Also Fall
Nintendo was among the biggest decliners on the Tokyo stock exchange on Wednesday. The Japanese game console manufacturer raised its profit forecast for the entire fiscal year but expected to sell fewer Switch game consoles. This is partly due to production problems with the popular console due to shortages of […]
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres: Warn Everyone About Climate Disasters
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres confirmed at the climate conference in Sharm el-Sheikh that there would be a global warning system for climate disasters. This so-called early warning system ensures that far fewer people die and that material damage is much smaller in the event of climate disasters. Unfortunately, half of […]
British Prime Minister Bows to pressure: Rishi Sunak Still Goes to Climate Summit in Egypt
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will attend the UN climate summit in Egypt after all. He announced that on Wednesday. Sunak had no intention of going to Sharm-el-Sheikh at first but is now adjusting. “There is no long-term prosperity without action on climate change. There is no energy security without […]
Grain Price Increases Due to Russia Blowing Up Grain Deal
Prices for grain on the so-called futures market rose sharply on Monday. The increase is mainly caused by Russia’s decision no longer to allow grain exports from Ukraine via the Black Sea. This agreement, signed in July, was seen as crucial in solving the world’s tight supplies and keeping the […]
Norway Arrests Russian Spy, Moscow Denies Spying Practices
The Russian embassy on Wednesday denied espionage in Norway. On Tuesday, Oslo announced it had arrested a suspected Russian illegal agent. The arrested man posed as a Brazilian researcher working for a year at the University of Tromsø in northern Norway. According to the Norwegian Counter-Intelligence Services (PST), he would […]
CEO JPMorgan Chase: Geopolitical Unrest is the Biggest Concern
The geopolitical tensions in the world surrounding the war in Ukraine and the deteriorating relationship between the West and China are of greater concern to the global economy than a recession. That said, Jamie Dimon, CEO of major US bank JPMorgan Chase at an economic forum in Saudi Arabia. “The […]
Facebook Parent Company Must Sell Giphy From British Regulator
The American multinational Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, will then have to sell the GIF website Giphy. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the British market regulator, has decided this. Meta appealed the decision, but that has now failed. Meta acquired Giphy in May 2020 in exchange […]
Woman in Case of Murdered Lola Suspected of Murder, Rape, Torture and Barbarity
Two suspects – a man and a woman – will be arraigned Monday before an investigating judge in Paris on suspicion of involvement in Lola’s death. That 12-year-old girl disappeared from the apartment building where she lived on Friday, and her body was found lifeless in a suitcase a few […]