June 5 (UPI) — The World Health Organization said on Monday it will expand on the European Union’s digital COVID-19 certification system for use globally which will facilitate mobility across a range of ongoing health threats and pandemics. The WHO … Read More
The world’s largest crypto exchange was sued by SEC on Monday, alleging multiple securities law violations. Cryptocurrency traders are withdrawing funds from crypto exchange Binance as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sued the company and its CEO Changpeng … Read More
US military says its ship had to reduce speed to avoid a collision and accuses China of violating maritime rules of safe passage in international water The US military has released video of what it called an “unsafe” Chinese manoeuvre … Read More
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? … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More