Author: News Desk

United States: The Amazon CEO Mr. Andy Jassy has announced that the company aims to shed more than 18,000 jobs as it cuts costs. According to the CEO, the layoff decisions will largely impact the company’s e-commerce and human resources organizations. The cuts amount to around 6 percent of the firm’s roughly 300,000-strong corporate workforce. “We are working to support those who are affected and are providing packages that include a separation payment, transitional health insurance benefits, and external job placement support,” Mr. Jassy remarked in the statement. The tech giant’s boss further added that “Amazon has weathered uncertain and…

United States: The Republican leader Mr. Kevin McCarthy has repeatedly failed in his bid to be an elected Speaker of the US House of Representatives. The House adjourned without a speaker since it had failed to choose a leader after a first-round vote. In the first two ballots to decide the next speaker, 19 Republicans opposed Mr. McCarthy, leaving him 15 votes short of the 218 needed to win. In the third vote, Mr. McCarthy lost one more supporter, which strengthened the concerns that he would fail to unite his caucus. The Democrat Mr. Hakeem Jeffries received more votes than…

United States: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will let retail pharmacies sell abortion pills in the US for the first time, the agency announced even if more states want to outlaw pharmacological abortion. “Under the Mifepristone REMS Program, as modified, Mifeprex and it is approved generic can be dispensed by certified pharmacies or under the supervision of a certified prescriber,” the agency noted. The regulatory adjustment may increase access to abortions as President Mr. Joe Biden’s administration struggles with how best to defend abortion rights following the landmark Roe v. Wade decision’s overturning by the Supreme Court and the…

Australia: Twitter appears to be experiencing some sort of outage throughout Australia. Some users reported that it takes a long time for posts to load, while others discover that the app is completely unresponsive and displays an error message that instructs users to reload their feed. There were more than 1000 reports of website outages on the Australian website Down Detector. Twitter users have claimed that the issue affects both the website and the app. Just after 7 AM, Down Detector posted the initial report of the outage, which is still visible. What caused the abrupt outage in Australia is…

United States: The US astronaut Mr. Walter Cunningham, the last surviving member of the first Nasa mission to ever broadcast live TV from orbit, has died at the age of 90. Mr. Cunningham joined NASA’s human spaceflight program as a member of its third astronaut class in 1963, making him one of the agency’s earliest members. The US astronaut was selected to pilot Apollo 7, the first crewed mission of the NASA program that went on to land humans on the moon for the first time. The US space agency confirmed Mr. Cunningham’s death, and stated that “the astronaut was…

Spain: According to new environmental regulations in Spain, tobacco manufacturers will be responsible for the costs associated with cleaning up millions of cigarette butts. Spain has taken drastic steps to cut the cost of cleaning up discarded butts in response to a European Union directive aimed at reducing pollution from single-use plastics. Tobacco corporations might also be forced to foot the bill for the installation of public receptacles in an attempt to convince users not to throw away their cigarette butts, as per the new regulation. According to the statement, “Spain’s administration has yet to calculate how much tobacco companies…

China: The Chinese government has claimed that travel restrictions imposed by several countries on Chinese arrivals are politically motivated and has warned that it may retaliate. The countries that imposed restrictions on passengers from China include the US, UK, India, Japan, and several European nations. “We believe that the entry restrictions adopted by some countries targeting China lack scientific basis, and some excessive practises are even more unacceptable,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mr. Mao Ning remarked. “We firmly oppose the attempts to manipulate the COVID measures for political purposes and will take countermeasures based on the principle of reciprocity,” Mr.…

United States: Research found that tissue samples from the autopsies of persons who died with COVID-19 reveal SARS-CoV-2 virus spreads throughout the body, including the brain, and persists for approximately eight months. The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers examined autopsy samples collected between April 2020 and March 2021. They thoroughly sampled the neurological system, including the brain in 11 of the patients. None of the patients was immunized, and they all passed away from COVID-19. 38 patients’ blood plasma tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, three patients’ blood plasma tested negative, and three patients’ blood plasma was not available. The…

United States: Tesla, the electric car manufacturer, has revealed that it has delivered a record of 1.3 million vehicles in 2022, 40 percent more than in 2021. The company managed to deliver more than 405,000 vehicles in the last three months of 2022. Earlier, Tesla offered two rebates for buyers taking delivery of a vehicle before the end of 2022, initially offering a $3,750 discount and then doubling the rebate to $7,500 with two weeks left in 2022. In a statement to investors, Tesla remarked that it had to deal with “significant COVID and supply chain related challenges throughout the year.”…

Ukraine: According to Ukrainian President Mr. Volodymyr Zelensky, Russia intends to “exhaust” Ukraine into submission through a protracted campaign of drone attacks and aerial bombardments. Mr. Zelenskyy stated that Ukraine had received information that Russia would step up its campaign of drone assaults on the country in his nightly address to the nation on 2nd January 2023. “We have information that Russia is planning a long-term attack using Shahed drones, It is probably banking on exhaustion. Exhausting our people, our anti-aircraft defences, our energy,” Mr. Zelenskyy remarked. killing at least five people and injuring others, key infrastructure in Kyiv and…