Greetings from Tyler, If you didn’t see Jane Fonda at the Cannes Film Festival, you should. She’s still beautiful, but crazier than a bedbug. She says the executives of oil and energy companies should be put in jail. For what? Apparently, they’re destroying the planet. That’s according to the new religion that’s taken over many…
Iran, which has applied for observer status in BRICS, is finessing non-Western states to remedy its battered economy. Iran, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates foreign ministers attended the BRICS meeting in South Africa this week, as the bloc seeks to expand its membership to counterbalance Western powers. Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Saudi Foreign…
Japan’s fertility rate fell to a record-tying low of 1.26 in 2022, declining for the seventh straight year, according to health ministry data released Friday. The total fertility rate — the average number of children a woman will give birth to in her lifetime — was down from 1.30 the year before and on par…
Fitch says it could still downgrade US credit rating amid ‘brinkmanship’ concerns Fitch Ratings said Friday it is holding the United States on watch for a possible credit downgrade, even though Congress passed a bipartisan debt ceiling agreement that will ensure the government can pay its bills on time. The ratings agency said in a…
Amazon agrees to Ring and Alexa settlements but didn’t admit violating any laws. A Federal Trade Commission lawsuit filed yesterday accused Ring, the home security camera company owned by Amazon, of invading users’ privacy by “allowing thousands of employees and contractors to watch video recordings of customers’ private spaces.” Until September 2017, every employee of…
KAMPALA, June 1 (Reuters) – Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has defended signing one of the world’s harshest anti-LGBTQ laws, with punishments up to and including the death penalty, saying it was needed to prevent LGBTQ community members he said were “disoriented” from “recruiting” others. His comments were the first since he signed the bill into…
EU ministers expressed “discomfort” on Tuesday at political outlier Hungary taking on the bloc’s rotating presidency next year, but Budapest vowed nothing could prevent it filling the prominent role. The European Parliament is to vote on a non-binding resolution on Thursday urging European Union capitals to deem Hungary unfit to assume the EU presidency in…
The US and Taiwan are set to sign a new trade deal on Thursday as tensions with China rise. It will be the first agreement under a framework for talks between Washington and Taipei called the US-Taiwan Initiative on 21st Century Trade. The announcement comes ahead of a high-level global security summit in Singapore this…
May 31 (UPI) — For the first time, scientists have taken the first X-ray signal of a single atom, with such detection having the potential to revolutionize such areas of science like quantum information, nanotechnology, and environmental and medical science research, authors of a new study said. Results from the research conducted by a team…
The failed launch triggered false alarms in neighboring Japan and South Korea. North Korea’s attempt to launch a military satellite to orbit ended in failure as the rocket suffered a malfunction mid-flight, triggering air raid sirens in neighboring countries. The attempted launch was condemned as a violation of international agreements, but North Korea says it’s…