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US: The 2020 women’s all-around gymnastics champion Sunisa Lee recently revealed that she will return to training at the elite level following the end of her sophomore season at Auburn next spring. The 19-year-old Lee hasn’t participated in an elite international gymnastics competition Since the Tokyo Games. She competed for Auburn in the NCAA last winter and spring, which has a different scoring structure than the Olympics and typically calls for different routines. I don’t want it to just be once in a lifetime. I have my sights set on Paris in 2024, and I know what I have to…
Taipei, Taiwan: Taiwanese President Ms. Tsai Ing-wen has denounced “rumors” regarding the risks of investing in the island’s important semiconductor sector. The President stated that the government is making every effort to guarantee such investments continued. Taiwan, being home to the world’s largest contract chipmaker, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), plays a key role in supplying the chips used in everything from automobiles and smartphones to fighter jets. However, the chip industry is reconsidering the dangers of investing in Taiwan as a result of Beijing’s claims of sovereignty being asserted on the island by the Chinese military. According to comments…
Washington, DC, US: Ground crews at Kennedy Space Center have fueled the main fuel tanks of NASA’s towering next-generation moon rocket in preparation for its maiden flight, which will launch the Artemis program of the American space agency 50 years after the last Apollo lunar mission. A recent valve leak led engineers to momentarily halt the flow of liquid hydrogen into the core stage, but a team rushed to the launch site and quickly fixed the issue. Later, the space agency revealed that a malfunctioning ethernet switch was the cause of issues with radar tracking the rocket’s flight path. A…
Palm Beach, Florida, US: Mr. Donald Trump, the former US President, has officially announced that he will run for Presidency in 2024, making it his third run for office. In a speech delivered recently from his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, Mr. Trump stated that, “we are a nation in decline” and “America’s comeback starts right now.” The former US President has been hinting at this decision for months. It comes at a time when the troubled real estate mogul is facing several criminal and civil investigations. Mr. Trump’s party is dealing with a worse-than-expected performance in the midterm…
New York, US: Luxury cosmetics firm Estee Lauder will buy designer fashion house Tom Ford in a deal worth $2.8 billion. The deal is going to be Estee Lauder’s biggest acquisition to date. The company declared that the acquisition would unlock new opportunities. The driving force for the takeover was the strength of Tom Ford’s beauty business, which covers fragrance, cosmetics, and skin care and for which Estée Lauder has a long-standing licensing deal. Mr. Tom Ford stated that Estee Lauder is the ideal home for his brand. “I could not be happier with this acquisition”, Mr. Tom Ford added…
New York, US: The United Nations (UN) reports that the world has reached 8 billion people on the planet just 11 years after surpassing the seven billion mark. Population growth is already going down after a significant uptick in the middle of the 20th century. According to World Population Prospects 2022, India will overtake China as the world’s most populated nation in 2023. The global organisation acknowledges that it is difficult to estimate the world’s population accurately and that its estimates may be off by one or two years. In line with the United Nations’ most recent report, the world’s…
Tokyo, Japan: Japan’s economy has unexpectedly shrunk for the first time in the year due to the rising cost of living. The world’s third biggest economy is struggling to motor on despite the recent lifting of COVID-19 curbs. Japan has faced extreme pressure from red-hot global inflation, extensive interest rate increases worldwide and the Ukraine war. Gross domestic product (GDP) has fallen to annualized 1.2 percent in the three months to the end of September. People reduced their expenditure due to the concerns about a global slowdown and the higher costs of imports. However, economists expect the third biggest economy…
Nusa Dua, Indonesia: After ten years of intermittent discussions on a trilateral alliance, the three countries with the largest rainforests in the world, Brazil, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Indonesia have officially announced their cooperation to protect rainforests. During the campaign last October, Mr. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the President of Brazil, said that they would work together with the two other major rainforest nations to form a partnership. This would put pressure on the wealthy industrialized world to help protect forests. Rapid deforestation releases carbon dioxide, which warms the earth and endangers efforts to stabilize the…
Australia: The tennis player Mr. Novak Djokovic will be given a visa by the Australian government, enabling him to compete in the 2023 Australian Open. Mr. Djokovic will receive a visa from Immigration Minister Mr. Andrew Giles, ending a three-year ban that came along with the previous administration’s decision to revoke his visa on the eve of the 2022 Open. Earlier in the year, the Coalition government rejected Mr. Djokovic’s visa on the grounds that a recent diagnosis of COVID-19 did not support an exception to the country’s requirement that visitors must be immunised. Earlier in the year, the Coalition…
US: E-commerce giant Amazon is expected to terminate approximately 10,000 employees in corporate and technical jobs early this week. The layoffs will primarily affect Amazon’s devices section, which includes the voice assistant Alexa, as well as its retail sector and human resources. As each company completes its planning, the number of layoffs is still a moving target and is probably going to happen team by the team rather than all at once, according to one source. But if it maintains at approximately 10,000, it would represent roughly 3 per cent of Amazon’s corporate staff and less than 1 per cent…