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Decline in Electric car sales
The governments are pushing ahead with its zero-emissions vehicle mandate, despite its decision to defer a complete ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030, to 2035. Under the mandate, manufacturers will be obliged to ensure that by 2030, eight out of 10 cars sold will have to be battery or
A Terror Attack in Syria
More than half a million people have been killed by the civil war that erupted after President Bashar al-Assad cracked down violently on peaceful pro-democracy demonstrations in 2011. Some 6.8 million people are internally displaced, while another six million are refugees or asylum-seekers abroad. A drone attack on a Syrian military academy in the western
Cyber war in Ukraine war
Since the invasion of Ukraine there has been a steady stream of disruptive cyber-attacks against public services in both Ukraine and Russia with varying degrees of impact. Hacktivist groups have been using largely unsophisticated forms of cyber-attack, but successfully temporarily disrupted banks, companies, pharmacies, hospitals, railway networks and civilian government services for Ukrainian and Russian
Snapchat to remove its AI chatbot
Snap has also been criticised for being unclear over whether the chatbot can access private information such as location data. One of the other concerns about My AI is – because of how young users of Snapchat skew – whether they really understand the implications of data collection. The UK’s data watchdog has told Snapchat
Elon Musk Sued to force a testimony in the probe against X
In 2018,Elon Must was with defrauding investors by claiming in a Tweet that he had “funding secured” to take Tesla, the electric car company he leads, private. He later settled the charges, stepping down as chairman of the firm’s board and agreeing to accept what was dubbed a Twitter sitter limits on what he could
Failing Ukraine’s Strategy
Anonymous officials took issue with Ukraine’s slow progress on the battlefield and questioned its military tactics. The Ukrained foreign ministrer defended the military saying that “I would recommend all critics to shut up, come to Ukraine and try to liberate one square centimetre by themselves.” and “Criticising the slow pace of the counter-offensive equals…spitting into
Egypt’s election
Mr Sisi is keen to get the election out of the way before he makes painful economic decisions such as devaluing the currency. In a democracy, this would be sound politics: beggaring voters is not a ticket to victory.On September 25th Egypt decided to hold presidential elections earlier than planned. Instead of voting in the
Europe Migrants crisis
The bloc is on track to receive over 1m asylum applications this year, the most since a rush of arrivals in 2015-16. Back then, in the midst of turmoil in Afghanistan and Syria, the mood was fairly welcoming. Now Europe no longer feels it can schaffen quite as much. Whether liberal or conservative, northern or
Africa’s coups
The rate at which coups are happening in the African soil in the 2020s , it indicates that there will be more of them in the 2020s than in any decade since the 1960s.For many years, coups in Africa seemed a thing of the past. But in the 2020s they are back with a vengeance:
The fall in Oil prices
This week opec and its allies, including Russia, succumbed to the slope once again. On October 4th, the very day the group confirmed its cuts until the end of the year at a meeting in Vienna, oil prices dropped by more than 5%, to $86 a barrel. Amid such volatility, pundits are debating where prices