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The company plans to accommodate 20,000 more refugees for free after hitting its previous goal Airbnb announced on Tuesday that it plans to accommodate 20,000 refugees after hitting its previous goal of finding places for 21,300 asylum seekers from Afghanistan. Airbnb hosts, who use the site to rent out rooms or entire homes to travelers, […]
The child’s parent had allegedly been angered over an incorrect order at a McDonald’s drive-through in the US state of Utah A father told his four-year-old child to fire a gun at officers following a dispute over a McDonald’s order, police in Utah have said. The gun was seized from the child just as it […]
“Expanding NATO would be the most fateful error of American policy in the entire post-Cold War era,” George Kennan said The US diplomat George Kennan, an astute observer of Soviet Russia under Stalin, offered his observations later in life on the question of NATO expansion. The tragedy of our times is that those views are […]
Hong Kong’s approximately 7.5 million residents will be required to get tested for coronavirus in March Hong Kong’s entire population of 7.5 million residents will be tested for Covid-19 in March, Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced on Tuesday, as the region tackles a spike in cases due to Omicron. The massive undertaking will […]
FanCentro has launched legal action against the owner of the adult website OnlyFans has been accused of blacklisting the social media accounts of performers who promote its rivals by having them placed on the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) database, it was reported on Tuesday. FanCentro, an alternative adult website, launched the legal […]
US and Korean researchers say an excessively strong a bond between a human employee and a robot is bad for business Situations where a human employee develops a strong emotional bond to their robot colleague could see the company’s overall “teamwork quality and performance” decline, a group of US and Korean researchers have warned. A […]
An amendment to a Florida bill sets a strict time frame within which teachers must tell on their LGBTQ students A Florida bill barring educators from discussing topics related to sexual orientation and gender identity has gained an amendment that would require school staff like teachers or counselors to inform parents within six weeks of […]
US President Richard Nixon’s 1972 visit to China showed how one meeting can change the course of history This week marks the 50th anniversary of a meeting that culminated in one of the biggest, and perhaps most consequential, ‘political earthquakes’ of the 20th century. Despite the United States and China being fierce Cold War political […]
Thailand will try to fight off demographic decline by coaxing young couples into having children Thailand’s deputy health minister has said that his government will hire celebrities and influencers to encourage young couples to have children. The policy is one of several pro-natal measures being taken by the Thai government, as the country grapples with […]
The nation has become “Covid-confident,” Canberra said Australia on Monday allowed foreign tourists into the country for the first time in nearly two years. All fully vaccinated foreigners can enter without staying at quarantine hotels upon arrival. Travelers who have not received their shots must still apply for exemptions. People can visit all regions except […]
Scottish guidance says don’t tell parents about underage sex Family advocates are up in arms against a new guideline issued by the Scottish government which they say promotes – or at least condones – underage sex among children as young as 13, local media reported on Sunday. The policy states that if a young person […]
Mayor Jim Watson praised PM Justin Trudeau’s controversial emergency powers, and said he wants to sell off vehicles seized from protesters Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson has praised the police crackdown on anti-mandate Freedom Convoy protesters in the Canadian capital. With the demonstrations cleared, he told state media that trucks, campers, and vehicles seized from the […]
Britain says the number of “fakes” coming from Moscow “doubled” last week The UK government has revealed that it is setting up a unit tasked with combatting disinformation from Moscow for the first since the end of the Cold War. The new Russia-Ukraine Government Information Cell (GIC) will expose and fight “false information,” Foreign Secretary […]
Diana Toebbe is accused of helping her husband sell classified US Navy data to undercover FBI agents The wife of a former US Navy nuclear engineer has pleaded guilty to conspiring with her husband to pass restricted data to a foreign nation for thousands of dollars in cryptocurrency. Maryland teacher Diana Toebbe pleaded guilty on […]
Violent protesters reportedly caused millions in damages and attacked workers Violent protesters reportedly left a Coastal GasLink pipeline worksite in Houston, British Columbia in ruins, causing millions of dollars in damages in what the company claimed was a “highly planned” and “unprovoked” assault on its property. Read more Pipelines may be ‘blown up’ if no […]