Uber has allocated $ 250 million to persuade US drivers to return to work for them. The ride service lost a large part of its customers and drivers during the pandemic. With more people vaccinated in the United States, demand for Uber’s services is also picking up. However, the […]
The Moroccan government has imposed a more extended curfew for the fasting month of Ramadan, from 8 pm to 6 am. The Islamic month of fasting, usually mainly festive in the evening starts on April 13 this year. In Morocco, stringent restrictions have been in place for more than […]
A group of politicians representing the impeached government of Myanmar has collected more than 180,000 pieces of evidence against the junta. They show that the military is guilty of “large-scale human rights violations”, they say. Myanmar has been very unsettled since the army took power on February 1. According […]
Several of Credit Suisse’s top executives are resigning due to the stock market scandal surrounding the American investment fund Archegos Capital Management, in which the Swiss bank is involved. Archegos took significant financial risks on the stock exchange, resulting in heavy losses and Credit Suisse, among others, was an […]
The United States plans to impose import tariffs on six countries as a countermeasure to introducing a digital tax, which mainly affects sizeable American tech companies such as Facebook, Amazon and Google. These are US taxes on goods from the United Kingdom, Austria, Turkey, Spain, Italy and India. The taxes […]
A DNS outage took many of Microsoft’s services off the air last night, including Azure, Teams and Xbox Live. The breakdown has now been resolved. Anyone who tried to use Microsoft’s cloud services last night could run into a severe breakdown. It turned out to be difficult or impossible […]
Seoul and Pyongyang want to bid to jointly host the 2032 Olympic Games in South Korea and North Korea. The International Olympic Committee recently expressed its preference for the Australian city of Brisbane for that edition. On Thursday, the South Korean capital Seoul board said that it had submitted […]
Former US President Donald Trump is being charged by two Capitol Police agents, the corps that guards Washington’s parliament. Police officers accuse Trump of provoking the deadly storming of the parliament building in January. Agents James Blassingame and Sidney Hemby say Trump has been inciting his constituency for months […]
US President Joe Biden is closely following the trial that started Monday around the heavy-handed arrest and death of black American George Floyd. He will certainly keep a close eye on it, as Americans across the country will, a spokeswoman said. After Floyd’s death, Biden spoke of it as […]
The WHO experts who investigated the origin of the coronavirus in China believe it is likely that the virus has passed from one bat to another animal and from there to humans. It is doubtful that it was accidentally jumped in a lab. This is stated in a WHO […]
