Month April 2024

Former X exec Crawford moves her desk to Meta

One of Elon Musk’s former employees at X has taken a lucrative position at Meta.

In Canada, global negotiations on a treaty to end plastic pollution has completed its final meeting

The world’s nations finished a round of negotiations early Tuesday on a treaty to end plastic pollution and made more progress than they have in three prior meetings. Coming into Ottawa, many feared the effort would stall to craft the… Continue Reading →

Biden plan to use Leahy Law sanction on IDF was ‘political,’ expert alleges: ‘Congress should consider’ probe

The Biden administration’s decision to pause its plan to use the Leahy Law has averted a potentially messy problem for the White House, but willingness to use such a drastic tool underscores the uncertainty of U.S.-Israel relations.  “The Biden administration’s… Continue Reading →

Haiti council appoints new prime minister as country continues to face deadly gang violence

Haiti’s newly installed transitional council chose former Sports Minister Fritz Belizaire as the country’s prime minister Tuesday as it presses forward in its monumental task of trying to establish a stable new government amid stifling violence. Belizaire replaces Michel Patrick… Continue Reading →

South African police investigate allegations of signature forgery in national elections

South African police were investigating Tuesday if former President Jacob Zuma’s new political party forged supporters’ signatures to register for national elections next month. The MK Party, which has been highly critical of the ruling African National Congress he used… Continue Reading →

Chinese coast guard fires water cannons at Philippine ships as tensions mount in South China Sea

Chinese coast guard ships fired water cannons at two Philippine patrol vessels Tuesday near a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, damaging both in the latest flare-up in an increasingly tense territorial conflict. There were no immediate reports of… Continue Reading →

Musk laying off more employees at Tesla as bad year gets worse

CEO Elon Musk on Monday announced more layoffs at Tesla only weeks after he said the company would cut 10% of its global workforce.

FCC fines wireless carriers for sharing user locations without consent

The Federal Communications Commission has leveraged nearly $200 million in fines against wireless carriers AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon for illegally sharing customers’ location data without their consent.

Former Kazakhstan minister arrested for alleged role in unrest that left 238 dead

Authorities in Kazakhstan arrested a former interior minister on Tuesday, in connection with deadly police crackdown on unrest that gripped the country in 2022, Kazakh news media reported. The Prosecutor General’s Office announced on Monday that Erlan Turgumbayev was detained… Continue Reading →

6 fatally shot in Shiite mosque in Afghanistan: Taliban

A gunman stormed a mosque in western Afghanistan, opening fire and killing six people as they were praying, a Taliban official said Tuesday. Local media reports and a former president of Afghanistan said the mosque was targeted because it was… Continue Reading →

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