Month: March 2023
Cholera vaccines in Mozambique
Currently, 440 patients, infected by cholera, are hospitalized in various health care facilities. Mozambique has received 1.7 million doses of vaccines against cholera, a disease that has so far killed 85 people among 17,646 cases diagnosed. the vaccines are destined for the central cities of Quelimane, Chimoio and Beira, and Marromeu district, on the south
fears of another war with Azerbaijan
The conflict between the two former Soviet republics Armenia and Azerbaijan has been ongoing for decades. At its core is the contested Nagorno-Karabakh region, which is mostly populated by Armenians. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the independent Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh was proclaimed, but it never achieved international recognition. Briefly afterwards, in 1992, a
Google probe in Spain
The European Union and several member states have in recent years taken steps to stop US tech giants like Google from stifling competition, avoiding tax and profit from news content without paying. Spain’s competition watchdog has launched an investigation into Google for alleged anti-competitive practices affecting news agencies and press publications. The probe seeks to
Iran foreign minister trip to visit Moscow
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said on March 23 that during the visit to Moscow, the chief diplomat of Iran and Russia will continue to exchange opinions on relevant international matters, including the situation surrounding the 2015 nuclear deal, developments in Syria, Afghanistan, and the South Caucasus, and Caspian problems. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein
Twitter source code leaked online
Twitter source code was posted on GitHub, a Microsoft-owned service where software developers share code and parts of the source code which underpins multi-billionaire Elon Musk’s social media platform have been leaked online. In the takedown request, Twitter called on GitHub to provide information on who was behind the account which leaked the code –
OnlyFans Tax reliefs
OnlyFans is a subscription-based website where you pay a monthly fee to access content from creators. It is not exclusively a platform for adult content.Those using the website do not qualify as employees, so are required to submit self-employed tax returns and can therefore claim back business expenses. An unnamed OnlyFans creator had claimed tax
Binance accused of violated US financial rules
Founded in 2017, the company is now the world’s largest centralised exchange for digital assets, claiming more than 100 million users globally. It is led by Chinese-born Canadian billionaire Changpeng Zhao. US regulators are seeking to ban Binance, the world’s largest crypto trading platform, alleging that the firm has been operating in the country illegally.
Twitter blue tick shake-up
Users currently pay $7 (£5.70) a month for blue-tick verification, which also allows access to additional features. Mr Musk said the changes were “the only realistic way to address advanced AI bot swarms taking over. It is otherwise a hopeless losing battle.” Elon Musk has announced a shake-up of the social media platform’s paid Twitter
head of failed crypto firm FTX accused of bribing a Chinese official
Sam Bankman-Fried is currently under house arrest at his parents’ home in California while awaiting trial.The US, officials accuse the entrepreneur of authorising a bribe of “at least $40m” (£32.5m) to try to gain access to trading accounts frozen by Chinese authorities. The allegations add to the fraud case that US authorities unveiled last year
Russia’s Belarus nuclear plan
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a decision to station the weapons there a day earlier sending a warning to NATO, and escalating a standoff with the alliance over its military support for Ukraine.Kyiv says it wants UN Security Council action after Moscow announced plans to station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus. Russia’s leader has accused