Tag: World
Starbucks popularity declines after CEO’s refugee remarks
Starbucks’s customers seem to be offended by Starbucks Chief Executive Howard Schultz’s declaration, promising to employ thousands of refugees, post President Donald Trump’s first executive order that temporarily banned travel from seven mostly-Muslim nations. Schultz in a letter to employees said the promise of the American Dream was “being called into[Read More…]
Nigerian women displaced by Boko Haram hold protest
Boko Haram jihadists drove out a thousand of Nigerian women forced from their homes to hold a protest against the authority demanding better conditions as UN Security Council envoys visited their camp. The demands of the demonstrators were strictly accusing the local authorities and aid agencies of making worse one[Read More…]
US Senate approves Carson as the housing secretary
Three dead as fire breaks out at Melbourne factory
Singapore to use drones to inspect railway tunnels
Trump favours merit-based system for immigrants
China lifts 12.4 mn people out of poverty in 2016
Donald Trump says he’s open to give undocumented immigrants citizenship
On late Tuesday, President Donald Trump said that the USA is open to immigration legislation and that it would also provide a legal status to some people living in the US illegally and provide a pathway to citizenship to those brought to the US illegally as children. On a conversation[Read More…]
Court orders may condemn Facebook’s VR ambitions
Steve Johnson beats John Isner at the Mexican Open
Seven killed in prison bus attack in Sri Lanka
Floods hit central Chile: 3 dead, 19 missing
Over 19 people have gone missing after heavy rain in parts of central Chile over the weekend caused mudslides and water outages in the South American nation. The banks of the rivers are overflowing due to heavy rain on the unusual dry months. This overflowing river went down to the[Read More…]
Sanders lashes out on Trump for attacking media
Malaysia to issue arrest warrant for Hyon Kwang
Facebook Live to be interrupted by ad videos soon
Social media giant Facebook plans to earn money from all the live videos it allows to share via its network. Facebook Live videos are soon to have interruptions by 20-second ads. According to a report on Thursday, Facebook would soon start putting ads in the middle of publishers’ videos, much like TV commercials or YouTube[Read More…]
Renowned economist Kenneth Arrow dies at 95
The youngest winner of a Nobel prize for economics, Kenneth J. Arrow, passed away. He was 95, died on Tuesday at his home in Palo Alto, San Francisco. His theories on risk, innovation and the basic mathematics of markets have influenced thinking on everything from voting to health insurance to[Read More…]
Rex Tillerson to calm agitations in Mexico
Sweden suggests paid sex-breaks on work time
British IS bomber was ex-Guantanamo Bay detainee
Cause of death of Russian’s UN ambassador unclear
Canada opens its doors for 1,200 Yezidi refugees
7 killed and 15 wounded in a blast in Iraq
Ivanka Trump calls for religious tolerance
Ivanka Trump displayed her support towards the Jewish community on Twitter after 11 Jewish Community Centers were targeted with bomb hoaxes on President’s Day. She tweeted: ‘America is a nation built on the principle of religious tolerance. We must protect our houses of worship & religious centers. #JCC.’ 11 JCCs[Read More…]