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General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Sep 21, 2018
EU is investigating Amazon
European authorities said Wednesday they have opened a preliminary antitrust investigation into Amazon over the e-commerce giant’s treatment of smaller merchants on its website. Amazon is an American…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Sep 21, 2018
Incurable plant disease threatens U.S. rose business
American-grown roses are becoming a bit less rosy, with the spread of an incurable virus that’s causing major damage to the nation’s $250-million-a-year rose business. A rose is a woody perennial…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Sep 20, 2018
Microplastics may enter food chain via mosquitoes
Mosquito larvae have been observed ingesting microplastics that can be passed up the food chain, researchers at the University of Reading claim in a new study. Microplastics are small pieces of…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Sep 19, 2018
Saudi invests $1bn in Lucid Motors
The Saudi wealth fund has invested $1Bn in Tesla rival Lucid motors. Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil exporter, is investing in new industries to diversify the kingdom’s economy away from its…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Sep 18, 2018
Russia claims that flight MH17 was shot down by a Ukrainian missile
The Russian military says the missile that shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 came from the arsenals of the Ukrainian army, not from Russia. Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17) was a passenger…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Sep 18, 2018
Addis Ababa rocked by ethnic clashes
Central Addis Ababa area known widely as Piazza has been rocked by violent conflicts between the youth who came from towns of the Oromia Special Zone surrounding the capital and the Addis Ababa youth…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Sep 18, 2018
IMF chiefs warns UK
Britain could spiral into recession if it leaves the European Union without a bespoke trade deal, the International Monetary Fund warned Monday, and economic growth will slow regardless of what deal…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Sep 18, 2018
China’s Silicon Valley faces serious hurdles
Integrating the two Special Administered Region (SAR) cities with mainland Chinese cities will be a massive program which will curtail the semi-autonomous status of Hong Kong and Macau. Hong Kong is…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Sep 13, 2018
Suu Kyi defends arrest of journalist
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has vehemently defended the imprisonment of the two Reuters journalists who were given seven-year jail terms after reporting on the massacre of Rohingya Muslims in…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Sep 12, 2018
Trump launches fresh attacks on FBI and Justice Department with dubious allegation
As the country was marking the 17th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, President Trump used the platform to launch a fresh round of assaults on the FBI and Justice Department. US President…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Sep 12, 2018
Google will fight the Right to be forgotten in EU Court
The tech giant has been fighting for the rights of its end user’s data to be expunged from its databases. Irrespective of the verdict, this is a landmark case which will define the rights of an…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Sep 11, 2018
Volkswagen gears up for the Emission scandal lawsuits
Investors in the German carmaker are getting ready to pursue the €9bn in damages from the 2015 Diesel emission scandal. In 2015, US’ Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a notice of violation…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Sep 10, 2018
Germany’s troublesome right-wing media outlets.
Aggressively expanding right-wing news sites are posing a challenge to traditional media agencies in Germany. Alternative news outlets cater to readers disillusioned by consensus-driven journalism. A…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Sep 10, 2018
Pyongyang celebrates 70th anniversary
North Korea hosted a parade featuring soldiers, along with columns of tanks and heavy artillery. However, it did not show off the intercontinental ballistic missiles that are thought to be capable of…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Sep 7, 2018
Twitter bans conspiracy theorist Alex Jones
The Social media company says it was responding to ‘abusive behaviour’ by the founder of InfoWars website. Alex Jones is a controversial conspiracy theorist who has a strong right-wing base and has…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Sep 6, 2018
Facebook to invest $1Bn in Singapore
The social media company said it will invest more than $1 billion to build its first data center in Asia in Singapore, slated to open in 2022. The new data center will come up near rival Google’s…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Sep 6, 2018
Leak in Russian spacecraft
Russia’s space agency said on Wednesday it hopes to announce the origin of a small hole found on a Russian module docked at the International Space Station in the coming weeks, including addressing…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Sep 4, 2018
Superbug syndrome
A superbug resistant to all known antibiotics that can cause “severe” infections or even death is spreading undetected through hospital wards across the world. "Superbugs" is a term used to describe…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Sep 3, 2018
Microwave weapons suspected in mystery attacks
US Diplomats and family members stricken in Cuba and China by unknown illnesses. Havana denies involvement in these attacks. Another incident had previously been reported in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, but…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Sep 1, 2018
Donald Trump: Provocateur?
FBI arrests man who threatened to kill Boston Globe staff for criticizing Trump. President Trump has earlier referred to the Boston Globe employees as the “enemy of the people” and “fake news”.…