Canada’s federal government has said it will pull all its advertising from Facebook and Instagram. It follows parent company Meta’s move to restrict news content for Canadians after parliament passed a law that will force tech firms to pay media … Read More
Days of protests across France saw escalations to violence including an apparent assassination attempt of the mayor of a Paris suburb, Vincent Jeanbrun, and the burning of public buildings and transport. The seventh day of protests are expected to continue … Read More
A new study released Wednesday by the think tank Atlantic Councilfound that 130 countries, representing 98% of the global GDP, are considering central bank digital currencies, with 49% currently in advanced development. A central bank digital currency is a digital … Read More
June 29 (Reuters) – Ethiopia, one of Africa’s fastest-growing economies, has asked to join the BRICS bloc of emerging markets, the foreign ministry said on Thursday. The term BRIC was coined by Goldman Sachs economist Jim O’Neill in 2001 to … Read More
LA PAZ (Reuters) – Bolivia’s “economic miracle,” a boom in the 2000s and 2010s that saw years of state spending lift millions of people into the middle class, is creaking, a warning sign to the wider region battling high inflation, … Read More
This ‘extinct’ earless dragon lizard has been spotted after 50 years missing. But researchers won’t say where. A tiny earless dragon which experts thought was extinct has been spotted for the first time in over 50 years. The Victorian grassland … Read More
US dollar-yuan divergence trade could spin out of control without intervention from China soon The US dollar-China yuan currency divergence trade is in full flow. Unless Beijing gets a grip on the exchange rate soon, the yuan could hit 15-year … Read More
Around 50 heads of state, along with representatives from international institutions and civil society, will attend a summit hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday and Friday in Paris. Their objective is to develop a new global financial system … Read More
Ugandan police said Monday that 20 people had been arrested for suspected collaboration with the notorious militia group blamed for last week’s grisly attack on a school near the border with Democratic Republic of Congo. “Twenty arrests have been made … Read More
SMOULDERING bodies line streets, sniper rounds pound from rooftops, and children scream – Haiti’s capital is under siege by armed gangs, but there’s a new grisly group in town. The most dangerous city on earth has become even deadlier as vigilantes … Read More