World & Politics
Unconditional basic income: A blessing or a curse? - 06/13/2016
Not less than 62% of Germans believe that people will not seek work if the government introduces unconditional basic income (UBI); at that, 53% are against such payments, according to a study conducted by an organization for the study of public opinion Emnid. According to Bild am Sonntag, 40% of respondents were in favor of introduction of UBI, but only 32% believe that this innovation would not...
Clinton supported by Obama gets ahead of Trump - 06/10/2016
Contender for the US presidency from the Democratic Party Hillary Clinton has received strong support in the person of President Barack Obama speaking out for her publicly for the first time. According to him, Mrs. Clinton " have the courage, she has compassion and heart to do this work" of the state’s head. Meanwhile, it is already clear that the final race will be tight. In any case, the...
Bill Gates launches 'Chicken Charity' in Africa - 06/09/2016
Microsoft’s founder Bill Gates has launched a campaign for raising chickens in Africa to fight poverty. He promised to buy 100 thousand chickens, most suitable for local conditions, for the Africans. The richest man in the world Bill Gates (Forbes estimates his fortune at $ 76.8 billion) announced launch of a new program of assistance to the poorest inhabitants of tropical Africa. The billionaire...
ISIL militants from the West want to return to their homeland - 06/07/2016
Militants and supporters of the terrorist group "Islamic State", recruited from among citizens of Western countries, are losing faith. Now, they are increasingly asking to help them return home from areas of Iraq and Syria controlled by ISIL. This was reported by Wall Street Journal. The publication refers to information received from diplomatic embassies of the six countries in Turkey. We are...
Experts named nationalities with the best quality of life - 06/06/2016
Experts found out that the German passport is the most attractive in terms of political, social and visa benefits. Swiss firm Henley & Partners, which deals with issues of citizenship and consulting in the field of investment immigration, has published its first report on the qualitative aspect of possession of a passport of any given country. The study, entitled "Quality of Nationality...
Walk Free Foundation: North Korea and India are topping the Global Slavery Index - 05/31/2016
The human rights and charity foundation Walk Free, leading the fight against slavery, published its latest Global Slavery Index. The document says that by now, there are 46 million people are working in slave-like conditions throughout the world. Most of them are residing in India and North Korea. However, cases of slavery have been observed in all 167 countries, where the WFF studied the...
North Korea can be accused of cyber theft - 05/27/2016
According to Internet security experts of Symantec, hackers, who in February stole $ 81 million from the Central Bank of Bangladesh accounts, may be involved in a greater number of cyber-attacks on banks. Among them are hacks of the Vietnamese Tien Phong Bank and an unnamed Filipino bank. Some reports say that more than 10 banks were attacked in total. Since the software used to cyberattack the...
Panama Canal to redraw the world trade map - 05/26/2016
The Panama Canal may again provoke reshaping global trade after a hundred years after the large-scale restructuring of the world market. During the nine years of construction work worth more than $ 5 billion, the Panama Canal got equipped with a third set of canal locks and deeper navigation canals. A number of additional improvements also make possible to double the isthmus’ throughput capacity...
Greece persuaded the European Commission to unlock the key tranche of € 10,3 billion - 05/25/2016
EU ministers have reached an agreement on the allocation of € 10,3 billion to Greece. Besides, they decided to mitigate a number of conditions for further assistance. This agreement has already been called a breakthrough in the negotiations with Greece, as the main condition for the release of a new tranche would be performance of commitments for the anti-crisis reforms by the new Greek...
Cameron: Turkey will join the EU after 3000 - 05/24/2016
David Cameron is trying to shift attention from upcoming ‘Brexit’ referendum to Turkey's problems. In particular, he says that the country will probably not be ready to join the EU "befor the year 3000", given its current pace of the necessary changes. Supporters of ‘Vote Leave’ campaign published posters ‘Turkey joins the EU’ accompanied with an image of a British passport, which clearly alludes...