Author: News Desk

Paris, France: The France has moved a step closer to become the first state in the world to legislate abortion as a constitutional right, after parliamentarians approved a resolution in the lower house to ensure access to “the right to voluntarily end a pregnancy”. Members of Parliament from the La France Insoumise party and Mr. Emmanuel Macron’s Centrist Alliance approved on  a clause that could be added to the constitution. The clause states that, “the law guarantees the effectiveness and equal access to the right to voluntarily end a pregnancy.” It would just take a political, economic or religious crisis…

France: The European Space Agency (ESA) has unveiled a new class of aspiring astronauts, including the world’s first “Parastronaut.” The 3rd generation of European spacefarers consists of 5 career astronauts, 11 members of a reserve pool of astronauts and one astronaut with a physical disability, who will take part in a feasibility project to include astronauts with disabilities in human spaceflight and possible future missions. This ESA astronaut class is bringing ambition, talent and diversity in many different forms to drive our endeavours and our future. continuous exploration in low Earth orbit on the International Space Station, going forward to…

London, UK: The iSpoof fraud website, which was taken down by Scotland Yard’s Cybercrime section with the assistance of the authorities in the US and Ukraine, is told to have targeted more than 200,000 potential victims. Members of British law enforcement were part of a global operation to take down the illegal website. In collaboration with Dutch Law Enforcement, the Authority was able to hack the website’s Dutch servers and covertly listen to phone calls. Scammers using fictitious profiles they built on the website at one stage contacted around 20 people each minute, and it’s possible that they took up…

Brasilia, Brazil:The Head of Brazil’s Electoral Court has overturned the attempt by outgoing President Mr. Jair Bolsonaro’s Party to invalidate the results of October’s run-off election. The Supreme Court Justice, Mr. Alexandre de Moraes, also fined the parties in Mr. Bolsonaro’s coalition $4.3 million (22.9 million reais) for their bad faith litigation. Mr. Bolsonaro had challenged the Brazilian Presidential election that he lost to Mr. Lula da Silva by claiming that votes from some machines should be invalidated. The complete bad faith of the plaintiff’s bizarre and illicit request was proven, both by the refusal to add to the initial…

Qatar: The World Cup of protest and animosity had taken yet another explosive turn with Germany’s players covering their mouths with their hands to suggest they had been restrained by football’s governing body, Fifa. The German Interior Minister, Ms. Nancy Faeser, who sat next to Fifa President Gianni Infantino and also wore a OneLove armband, which encourages tolerance, diversity, and LGBTQ+ rights, added strength to their message. It was an intentional act of disobedience against Fifa, which has threatened seven countries, including England and Wales, with sporting sanctions if their captains wear OneLove armbands during matches. Before the team’s shocking…

London, UK: The United Kingdom (UK) has announced the lifting of security restrictions on liquids and laptops in Airport hand luggage in 2024 due to the deployment of hi-tech 3D scanners. The government is considering implementing the advanced technology, which is similar to CT scanners used in hospitals, in two years, although a final decision has not been made. We have just started the expansion of the security area in Terminal 3 which will have more CT scanners and have a deadline of mid-2024 from the [Department for Transport]. By then the normal passenger experience will be that liquids stay…

New Zealand: The Central Bank of New Zealand has hiked interest rates to a record high and warned that a full year of recession might be necessary to get inflation under control. The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) hiked the official cash rate (OCR) by 75 basis points to 4.25 percent and now expects rates to peak at 5.5 percent, compared with a previous forecast of 4.1 percent. Some traders were surprised by the Central Bank’s openly hawkish tone, which made the local currency and swap rates go up. Traders were also taken aback by RBNZ’s predictions of a…

Zhengou, China: Hundreds of employees at Apple’s iPhone-manufacturing plant in the Chinese city of Zhengou clashed with security guards as problems arose after almost a month under strict restrictions intended to prevent a COVID outbreak. Workers at the Foxconn Technology Group Plant rushed out of dormitories in protest against white-clad guards. Several white-suited people attacked a person lying on the ground with sticks according to the videos posted by the employees. A screenshot from a video of Foxconn workers clashing with police officers outside the dormitory compound has spread over social media. The Protest began overnight due to unpaid wages…

United States: The American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan’s publisher is offering refunds for a $600 special edition of his new book, “The Philosophy of Modern Song,” acknowledging that the signatures were actually “in penned replica form.” The Philosophy of Modern Song, a collection of more than 60 essays on songs by other artists, from Elvis Costello to Nina Simone, was published at the beginning of November. It is Dylan’s first book of original writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Volume One and his first since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016. According to US media sources, after getting their copies in…

Brasilia, Brazil: The Liberal Party of Brazil’s outgoing President, Mr. Jair Bolsonaro, has challenged some votes from the election in October, in which Mr. Bolsonaro barely lost to Mr. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a leftist. The Party requested the Electoral Court to invalidate votes from certain voting machines, which it claims were compromised during the second round of election. Mr. Bolsonaro’s Party has been given 24 hours by the Court to revise their petition to add the results of the first voting round. The Party has not presented any proof for its allegation of machine errors. The Superior Electoral…