The International Atomic Energy Agency, the nuclear watchdog of the United Nations, will never be handed over images from inside of some Iranian nuclear sites because of the expiry of a monitoring agreement with the agency and Iran, the speaker of country’s parliament said on Sunday according to reports in the Iranian state media. “The…
The top court of the European Union supported the national privacy watchdogsof thebloc to push ahead with more scrutiny and potential sanctions against Facebook and other Silicon Valley giants even when such watchdogs are not the lead regulators. Citing enforcement bottlenecks, the right of national agencies to act was backed by the EU Court of…
The first ever country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender is now El Salvador. A proposal aimed at making bitcoin to be used as legal tender in the country alongside the US dollar was approved by a majority of lawmakers of the country. The proposal was made by Salvadorian President Nayib Bukele. The law states…
The European Union and the United States are seeking to mend the transatlantic relationship that was impeded by tit for tat tariffs surrounding the granting of government subsidy for Airbus and Boeing respectively. According to reports, the EU is now asking the US to pledge an end to their aircraft-related tariffs when representatives of the…
Following a network-wide outage at Orange for several hours, France has tasked its cybersecurity watchdog to conduct an audit of the network. In a statement, Orange’s CEO Stephane Richard said, he was launching an internal inquiry into the disruption the results of which would be ready within seven days. In a letter to the head…
Two environment conscious citizens of Guyana have filed a lawsuit against the government demanding an end to offshore drilling by ExxonMobil and other large oil companies as such explorations and business activities threaten to worsen the climate crisis. The case has been filed by Quadad de Freitas, a 21-year old Indigenous tourist guide from the…
Imports of sea food from an entire fleet of a Chinese company were blocked by the United States government late last week. The US alleged that the Chinese company forced crew members to work in slave-like conditions which resulted in the deaths of a number of Indonesian fishermen last year. An immediate ban on imports…
The European Union has demanded millions of euros in penalties from AstraZeneca Plc if the company is unable to meet an urgent order for more doses of its Covid-19 vaccine as the bloc renewed its criticism of the British company over its vaccine supply “failure”. This is also the latest round of a bitter legal…
A new research has found that carbon emissions in China is being pushed to record highs with the country’s strategy to get out of the pandemic induced slowdown by boosting the construction sector of the country. A report from the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) stated that in the first quarter…
On the occasion of the first anniversary of the COVAX dose-sharing facility, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said that the Covid-19 vaccines have remained out of the reach of the poorest countries of the world. Inequities in vaccine distribution have been repeatedly denounced by the WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and gave…
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