Category: General Interest

US tech giant Google moved some $23 billion in profits to a Bermuda tax haven in 2017, an increase of $4bn from 2016, newly released filings reveal. Google has exploited the loophole in the EU tax system for years. A tax haven is a country that offers foreign individuals and businesses little…

Somalia’s government took the drastic step of expelling the United Nations’ most senior official in the country after he questioned the detention of a former al-Shabab leader contesting the regional election.Somalia is the easternmost country in Africa, located on the Horn of Africa. In the 1800s, after the fall …

The rise of automation has so far had a negligible impact on jobs at a global scale, the World Bank chief economist Pinelopi Koujianou said, despite common gloomy predictions that humans are set to be replaced by machines. A robot is a machine—especially one programmable by a computer…

Washington state joined a handful of other states that ban anyone under 21 from buying a semi-automatic assault rifle after voters passed a sweeping firearms measure in November that has drawn a court challenge from gun-rights advocates. An assault rifle is a selective-fire rifle that uses an…

A partial US government shutdown has taken effect after US lawmakers failed to break a budget impasse. This is the second government shut down of the Trump administration in less than a year. A government shutdown occurs when Congress fails to pass or the President fails to sign appropriations legislation funding federal…

Germany will close its last black coal mine on Friday, a milestone marking the end of a 200-year-old industry that once fuelled the country’s economic growth. This is the latest step in the push for green fuels and alternatives fuel sources in Europe’s largest economy. Germany’s first deep-shaft coal mine opened in the 1820s, helping…

Two of Europe’s leading newspapers are seeing their employees being accused of propagating fake news by writing unverifiable stories and making up claims. Fake news is a type of yellow journalism or propaganda that consists of deliberate disinformation or hoaxes spread via traditional print and broadcast news media or online…

A federal judge in Texas said on 14 December ruled that the Affordable Care Act’s individual coverage mandate is unconstitutional and that the rest of the law, therefore, cannot stand. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), often shortened to the Affordable Care Act…

A Cambridge research project has sequenced 100,000 genomes from around 85,000 people. The aim is to create a new genomic medicine service for the NHS, transforming the way people are cared for; 1 in 4 participants received a diagnosis for their rare diseases for the first time…

The eleventh edition of the World Policy Conference was held in Rabat, Morocco, from the 26-28th of October 2018. Tobby Simon, the founder and president of Synergia Foundation, at the eleventh edition of the World Policy Conference. He enunciated on the topic “Global Governance..