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Corona Vaccine Available to All Adults in France

31May

By Alan LorenzNo Comments

France, Europe, News

Corona Vaccine Available to All Adults in France

From Monday, there will no longer be an age limit for adults to receive a vaccine against the coronavirus in France. Prime Minister Jean Castex announced this earlier this month. All residents of eighteen years of age or older are now eligible for a vaccine. The initiation of vaccination for all adults is two weeks earlier than expected. It was initially planned for mid-June, but France is more than ever on the right track, according to the prime minister. More than 25 million inhabitants of France have received their first corona pepper so far. This is almost 40 percent of the population. Nearly 12 million inhabitants, just over 20 percent of the population, have been fully vaccinated. The corona situation across the country has improved significantly in recent weeks, allowing...

The European Commission in Action Against TikTok for Hidden Advertising for Children

28May

By Alan LorenzNo Comments

Business, Europe, News

The European Commission in Action Against TikTok for Hidden Advertising for Children

The European Commission takes action against video app TikTok following consumer complaints about hidden marketing and aggressive advertising techniques targeting children. Brussels wants the company to adapt its policies and commercial practices and comply with EU consumer protection rules. The day-to-day EU administration has therefore started a "formal dialogue" with the popular platform. TikTok will be given one month to discuss the matter with the committee and the European consumer authorities and reach a satisfactory solution. The umbrella European consumer organization BEUC had made it clear earlier this year that something was up after complaints about TikTok's advertising practices from various countries. EU Commissioner Didier Reynders (Justice): "The current pandemi...

Biden Wants US Federal Budget of $ 6 Trillion

27May

By Alan LorenzNo Comments

US, Business, News

Biden Wants US Federal Budget of $ 6 Trillion

US President Joe Biden will propose a $ 6 trillion budget. The New York Times reports this based on documents that the newspaper has seen. It is said to be the highest federal expenditure since World War II. Biden will announce his budget plans for the fiscal year 2022 starting in October on Friday. Earlier, he had already developed great ambitions for investment in infrastructure, worth $ 2 trillion, and a stronger social safety net, involving $ 1.8 trillion. In addition to roads and bridges, it also concerns expenditure on childcare and education, for example. According to The New York Times, total federal spending will reach $ 8.2 trillion by 2031. The White House wants to pay for the expenditure through higher taxes on the wealthiest Americans and large companies, among oth...

Official Olympic Games Sponsor Calls for Cancellation

26May

By Alan LorenzNo Comments

Sports, News

Official Olympic Games Sponsor Calls for Cancellation

The Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun, an official domestic partner of the Tokyo Olympics, has called in an article on Wednesday to cancel the sporting event this summer. According to the newspaper, the risks to public safety and the pressure that the Games are putting on health because of the corona pandemic are too significant. "We ask Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga to calmly and objectively assess the situation and decide not to let the event go ahead this summer," the article headed "Decision to Cancel." Wednesday morning (local time), the article's headline had already been retweeted more than 21,000 times. There are more than 60 Japanese companies that have partnered with the event, including several newspapers. Initially, they all agreed to move the event from 2020 to 2021....

The Founder of the Chinese Telecom Giant Huawei Calls for Diversification

25May

By Alan LorenzNo Comments

Technology, News

The Founder of the Chinese Telecom Giant Huawei Calls for Diversification

The founder of the Chinese telecom giant Huawei calls on his employees to accelerate the group's diversification. The aim is to circumvent US sanctions on smartphones by making more products yourself. The telecom giant has been suffering from the trade war between China and the United States for years. Washington blacklisted the company in 2019, barring Huawei from accessing US technologies for its products, including the electronic chips essential to its phones, as well as software services like Google's. This situation also weighed heavily on Huawei's sales. In an internal note to his employees seen by AFP, Huawei founder Ren Zhenfei is now calling for a total transformation of the group. Among other things, the autonomy of its software must be accelerated. "For example, the Un...

Continuing Olympics Puts Japanese Lives on the Line

24May

By Alan LorenzNo Comments

Japan, Business, News, Sports

Continuing Olympics Puts Japanese Lives on the Line

By allowing the Olympics to go ahead, the Japanese government could endanger people's lives. The country is lagging far behind when it comes to vaccinating the population against the coronavirus. Masayoshi Son, the CEO of the Japanese tech investor SoftBank, said this on Twitter. The low vaccination coverage could be dangerous if 100,000 people from 200 countries visit Japan during the Games at the end of July, he says. "At the moment, more than 80 percent of the Japanese want the Olympics to be postponed or cancelled. What authority does it impose on?" The influential billionaire wrote on Twitter in Japanese last weekend. "Does the International Olympic Committee (IOC) have the power to decide that the Games go ahead?" The government started a major vaccination campaign on Mon...

Netanyahu Sees the Operation in Gaza as A Great Success

21May

By Alan LorenzNo Comments

Israel, News

Netanyahu Sees the Operation in Gaza as A Great Success

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has described the military operation in the Gaza Strip as a great success. He said during a press conference that his country's goals had been achieved, according to the news site Times of Israel. According to Netanyahu, Hamas has suffered "maximum losses," while casualties in Israel have been limited. Following a ceasefire agreement, the prime minister said his country had killed "200 terrorists" above ground, including 25 top figures. "And those who survived know that we can reach them anywhere," he told the news site. "Above or below the ground." The Israeli army has carried out massive bombing raids to destroy Hamas tunnels for the past week and a half. According to the authorities, many civilians were killed in the densely populated...

Fallen Car Boss Has to Pay Back Nissan-Mitsubishi Millions

20May

By Alan LorenzNo Comments

Business, News

Fallen Car Boss Has to Pay Back Nissan-Mitsubishi Millions

The fallen car magnate Carlos Ghosn has to pay back almost 5 million euros in wages from a Dutch judge to Nissan and Mitsubishi. The court in Amsterdam ruled this in one of the many lawsuits surrounding the ex-top executive suspected of fraud. Ghosn himself filed a lawsuit in the EU against the joint company of Nissan and Mitsubishi that is formally located here. He felt the alliance wrongly dismissed him as chairman in 2019 and demanded 15 million euros in lost wages and severance payments. But the judge disagreed, as there was no employment contract at all between him and the auto alliance. The necessary permission from the board for this was lacking, according to the judge. The amount he has to repay is the net remuneration he received from Nissan-Mitsubishi from April 2018 ...

Google and Samsung Going to Merge Wear OS and Tizen

19May

By Alan LorenzNo Comments

Technology, News

Google and Samsung Going to Merge Wear OS and Tizen

A small revolution in smartwatch land: Google and Samsung are now going together for one operating system. Wear (provisional name) combines the best of Wear OS and Tizen and should give both tech giants more clout against the Apple Watch - by far the world's best-selling smartwatch. The news was announced at the Google I / O developer conference taking place online this week. With Tizen, Samsung has had a solid platform for smartwatches for many years, but reviews always revealed the same Achilles heel: the fact that there are far fewer apps available for it than for Apple's watchOS and Google's Wear OS. For Google, it is a huge boost to get Samsung on board for a universal operating system: clocks like the Galaxy Watch3 and Watch Active2 only have to tolerate the Apple Watch in...

More Than 47,000 Palestinians Flee From Bombing Israel

18May

By Alan LorenzNo Comments

Gaza Strip, Israel, News

More Than 47,000 Palestinians Flee From Bombing Israel

At least 47,000 people in the Gaza Strip have fled because of the ongoing Israeli bombing of the area. Many houses have been destroyed, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Almost all refugees have sought refuge in the dozens of UN schools in the Gaza Strip. According to an OCHA spokesman, at least 132 buildings in the Gaza Strip have been completely destroyed and 316 buildings badly damaged. This includes six hospitals and nine other healthcare institutions. According to the Palestinian government, the damage amounts to approximately 200 million euros. Israel opened one avenue to the Gaza Strip on Tuesday to admit humanitarian aid. The UN welcomes this move, but the OCHA spokesperson wants Israel to open more roads so that aid can be o...