Students from the Minsk State Language University protested in several places in the Belarusian capital, including Kolas Square, James and Karl Marx Street in the city center. During Saturday afternoon held a separate demonstration march Minsk, thousands of women and one of their slogans read “Hands off children,” Reuters. Some media estimate that the protest … Read more
Electric car maker Tesla has not yet been included in the Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index. The S&P Dow Jones Indices decision is a big blow to Tesla investors, who generally expected the company to be included in the index thanks to a favorable July quarterly earnings report, Reuters reported. The company’s shares for … Read more
The worst of the coronavirus crisis is yet to come, although there is no immediate threat to financial stability from the pandemic, said the German financial sector regulator BaFin. But the head of Deutsche Bank, Germany’s largest financial institution, also predicts bleak prospects for the global economy. BaFin sees further cases of new coronavirus infection … Read more
Buffet conglomerates are involved in about 90 companies in various fields. In fact, there are also significant shares in a number of well-known companies, such as the world’s largest producer of soft drinks, Coca-Cola, which Buffett loves. And his empire was able to cope with the coronavirus crisis. In the second quarter, after a record … Read more
German drug and pesticide manufacturer Bayer will pay about $ 1.6 billion (35 billion crowns) in the United States to settle most lawsuits involving his contraceptive Essure. This is not the only case Bayer is facing. In June, he agreed to pay $ 10.9 billion (almost 240 billion crowns) to settle lawsuits alleging that her … Read more
The port in the Senegalese metropolis of Dakar has announced that it wants to get rid of the 2,700 tons of ammonium nitrate stored there. Reuters reported. A powerful explosion of almost the same amount of the chemical in Beirut, Lebanon, killed 200 people in early August, injured 6,000 people and killed a quarter of … Read more
Thanks to an agreement and automatic exchange of information, tax authorities in almost a hundred countries around the world obtained data on 84 million accounts that the inhabitants of these countries own in so-called tax havens. The assets in these accounts totaled about ten trillion euros (267 trillion crowns). Compared to 2018, this is a … Read more
In recent decades, Europe has sought independence from the United States or Russia in access to space, which it has succeeded with its Ariane rocket family and Galileo’s own satellite navigation. The latest successes of the American private company SpaceX, which is seeking to colonize Mars in the long term and which builds its visions … Read more
The French L’Oréal will stop using terms referring to white, such as bleaching or light, on the packaging of its skin care products. According to Reuters, its spokesman said on Friday. The world’s largest cosmetics manufacturer is responding to growing criticism of social networks and is taking a step back after a similar announcement was … Read more
So many dolphins have died on the French Atlantic coast in recent years that marine biologists are concerned about the fate of their cetacean populations. Most of them died in the trawls of fishing boats, Reuters reports. Autopsy results show that dolphins have broken fins and cuts in the skin that cause them nets. Some … Read more