The European Commission on Thursday welcomed the temporary maintenance of the conditions for awarding subsidies to electric cars in the United States, after the US Treasury Department said in a publication that it had delayed the publication of the final conditions. The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) – the official name of President Joe Biden’s climate … Read more
A former US Marine who confessed to raping and killing a 16-year-old girl in 2000 was executed on Wednesday, December 14 in the state of Mississippi. Thomas Edwin Loden, 58, received a lethal injection at 18:00 (0000 GMT) at Parchman Penitentiary, an overcrowded prison in this conservative southern US state. Thomas Loden had pleaded guilty … Read more
The US Justice Department on Tuesday announced the indictment of five Russian nationals, including a suspected security service agent, and two Americans, accused of illegally supplying Russia with sensitive electronic components and ammunition. Three of them are in custody, including one awaiting extradition to Estonia, and four are at large, he said in a statement. … Read more
China has announced that it has filed a case at the World Trade Organization (WTO) against the United States over its restrictions on semiconductor exports, accusing Washington of endangering global supply chains. In October, the United States became on behalf of “national security” announced new export controls aimed at limiting Beijing’s ability to buy and … Read more
Several human rights NGOs have joined forces in the hope of preventing Elon Musk from buying Twitter, for fear that the multi-billionaire will allow toxic behavior to explode on the platform. “If we don’t block this operation, he will give a megaphone to demagogues and extremists, who (…) incite hatred, violence and harassment”, Nicole Gill, … Read more
Elon Musk has served ex-Twitter boss Jack Dorsey with an injunction to provide a whole series of documents, as part of the battle he launched to extricate himself from the $ 44 billion takeover deal of the social network. According to documents made public Monday, August 22, Jack Dorsey was ordered to give Elon Musk … Read more
The vote of Twitter shareholders on its acquisition by Elon Musk will take place on September 13, before the start of the lawsuit that the social network has brought against the richest man in the world in October. Twitter summoned its shareholders for a “special meetingby videoconference, according to official documents filed Tuesday with the … Read more
Consumer confidence picked up more than expected in August in the United States, due to the improving outlook on the inflation front, which relieves low- and middle-income households, according to the preliminary estimate published on Friday. by the University of Michigan. The index stood at 55.1 points, up 7% from July, and higher than the … Read more
US health authorities have approved the anti-influenza drug Xofluza for children from the age of five, a first for children of this age, the Swiss pharmaceutical group Roche announced on Friday August 12. The US drug agency, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has given the green light to use this treatment for children aged … Read more
US health authorities on Tuesday authorized a new procedure for injecting the monkeypox vaccine which should make it possible to vaccinate more people with the same amount of product, at a time when doses are lacking in the country. The United States Medicines Agency (FDA) has also authorized the administration of the vaccine in individuals … Read more
