The European Commission wants to ban products made through forced labour. This concerns not only T-shirts made in China by oppressed Uyghurs but also all goods made forcibly from outside and within the European Union. With this explicitly broad approach, Brussels hopes to avoid arousing the ire of China. The […]
Stock markets in New York fell sharply on Tuesday after the recent strong price recovery. A disappointing inflation figure weighed down the mood among investors on Wall Street. Consumer prices in the United States rose 8.3 percent in August. However, economists had expected a sharper cooling in inflation to 8.1 […]
The Baltic states, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, have agreed in principle to limit the entry of Russian citizens who want to enter from their own country or Belarus. Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics said the measures would be effective later this month. Exceptions will be made, for example, for people […]
Iran has offered itself as an energy supplier to help avert the energy crisis in Europe. “We have the necessary gas reserves and could potentially meet Europe’s needs in this area as well,” said a spokesman for Iran’s foreign ministry. But before Tehran makes deliveries, the Vienna nuclear agreement must […]
The attack on authentication company Twilio early this month appears to be much broader than first thought. Password manager LastPass and authentication company Authy are also among the victims. With two-factor authentication, in addition to your password, you also need an extra unique code or confirmation to log in. At […]
The Ukrainian secret service was behind the murder of journalist Daria Dugina, the daughter of Putin’s domestic ideologist Alexander Dugin. At least, that is what the Russian intelligence service FSB decides after the investigation into the murder that was completed well one day after the facts. According to the FSB, […]
Despite promises, years of experience, and measures, it remains child’s play to place advertisements with incorrect information about elections on Facebook from abroad. The NGO Global Witness once again manages to embarrass Meta. It effortlessly placed ads in Brazil containing factually incorrect information about the upcoming elections. Advertisements that questioned […]
A new US law targeting forced labor in China’s Xinjiang region is having a major impact on trade flows between China and the United States. For example, Chinese solar panels and other equipment to generate solar energy have been piling up on the US border since the law was passed. […]
Former US President Donald Trump will answer questions from Attorney General Letitia James under oath about alleged fraud by The Trump Organization on Wednesday. She wants to know whether the company has misquoted the value of the real estate for, among other things, tax breaks and higher loans. In […]
Attackers used a so-called zero-day vulnerability to collect the email addresses and phone numbers of millions of Twitter account that went up for sale a few weeks ago. The news service itself has confirmed this. The data breach became known at the end of July when a hacker tried […]
