Month: March 2024
Reddit Valuation
Reddit, which was founded almost 20 years ago, is an online forum where users can post questions and comment on topics that interest them. The company makes most of its money through advertising on the platform, although it recently struck a deal with Google which allows the tech giant to access Reddit data to train
Ukraine is fighting difficult war
In the wake of the fall of Avdiivka Russian forces have captured outlying villages and attacked several other small eastern towns such as Kostiantynivka and Pokrovsk. To Avdiivka’s south the front line turns and then slopes gently towards the Dnieper river just below the industrial city of Zaporizhia.The counter-offensive failed, but not before the Ukrainians
Growing Russia’s economy
A financial collapse, widely predicted in the spring of 2022, never came to pass. The economy fell into recession, but it was less severe than expected and did not last long. Inflation was the most recent scare. Last year prices accelerated rapidly; economists believed they could spiral out of control.In the two years since Vladimir
The Fight in Gaza
The ceasefire talks appear to have gone nowhere despite multiple rounds of discussions and American pressure. In return for a staggered release of Israeli hostages, they are said to be seeking a permanent cessation of fighting in Gaza by the Israel Defence Forces (idf) and potentially a complete exit by it from the enclave, among
Sale of TikTok to US tech companies
TikTok could be sold for ‘hundreds of billions of dollars’ as Congress looks to pass a bill that would force the app to divest from its Chinese parent company amid national security concerns. The Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act would specifically designate ByteDance and TikTok as foreign adversary-controlled applications. President Joe Biden
Protest outside Amsterdam’s National Holocaust Museum
Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Dutch King Willem-Alexander officially opened The Netherlands’ first Holocaust Museum, but the day was marred by protesters throwing firecrackers and climbing police vans as they called for a ceasefire in Gaza. Pro-Palestine protesters have been accused of preventing Jews from mourning ‘humanity’s darkest hour’ after activists staged a huge demonstration
The Us embassy in Haiti
Haiti’s embattled prime minister, Ariel Henry, traveled recently to Kenya to push for the U.N.-backed deployment of a police force from the East African country to fight the gangs. But a Kenyan court ruled in January that such a deployment would be unconstitutional. Henry, who is facing calls to resign or form a transitional council,
Ukraine Issues Ominous Warning to NATO
Several NATO states sit on the Baltic Sea, including Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania, with the latter also bordering the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad. Sweden is also located on the Baltic Sea, and became the most recent member of NATO late last week.NATO has provided tens of billions of dollars’ worth of military aid to Ukraine
Egypt to restart Hamas-Israel talks
Egypt’s contacts with Hamas and Israeli intelligence agency, the Mossad, on Sunday were carried out under a mandate from the Egyptian presidency in an effort to bring the two sides’ divergent positions together. Qatar, Egypt and the US have been trying to negotiate a deal for a ceasefire during Ramadan in return for the release
The Immigration Issue in the US
Nearly 7.3 million migrants have illegally crossed the southwest border under President Biden’s watch, a number greater than the individual population of 36 states.The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) report for fiscal 2023 shows that the number of illegal immigrants on the non-detained docket has soared from 3.7 million in FY 2021 to nearly 4.8