Month: December 2022

Xiaomi layoffs: Thousands of tech jobs cut as China’s unemployment crisis deepens

December 21, 2022 1:38 AM CNN Newsource

By Laura He, CNN Xiaomi, one of the world’s largest smartphone makers, has begun layoffs in China at a time when the world’s second largest economy is grappling with an enormous unemployment crisis. The Chinese company’s decision to slash jobs comes soon after tech giants across the world, including Meta and Twitter, have laid off

Los talibanes suspenden la educación universitaria de las mujeres en Afganistán

December 21, 2022 1:37 AM CNN Newsource

olivertapia (CNN) — El gobierno talibán suspendió la educación universitaria para todas las estudiantes en Afganistán, el último paso en su brutal represión de los derechos y libertades de las mujeres afganas. Un portavoz del Ministerio de Educación Superior afgano confirmó la suspensión a CNN este martes. Una carta publicada por el Ministerio de Educación

Climate activists decapitate prominent Berlin Christmas tree

December 21, 2022 1:31 AM Associated Press

BERLIN (AP) — Climate activists have sawn off the tip of the Christmas tree erected in front of Berlin’s iconic Brandenburg Gate. The group Last Generation said two of its members used a hydraulic lift and a hand saw to cut six feet off the top of the 50-foot tree. The group said Wednesday it

Winter solstice 2022: Shortest day of the year is long on pagan mysteries

December 21, 2022 1:04 AM CNN Newsource

By Forrest Brown, CNN For the past six months, the days have grown shorter and the nights have grown longer in the Northern Hemisphere. But that’s about to reverse itself. Winter solstice 2022, the shortest day of year and the official first day of winter, is on Wednesday, December 21 (well, for a decent chunk

On the holidays, efforts to distract Ukrainian kids from war

December 21, 2022 1:02 AM Associated Press

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — In a carpeted meeting room of what used to be a posh hotel, Ukrainian children are screaming with happiness at a performance put on for them and the joy of opening presents. In a country where children have seen the horrors of a nearly 10-month war,

Israel to hold remains of deceased Palestinian prisoner

December 21, 2022 1:01 AM Associated Press

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s defense minister says the remains of a Palestinian prisoner who died a day earlier from lung cancer will not be released for burial. Benny Gantz’s office said Wednesday that the body of Nasser Abu Hamid, a former leader of the Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade, would be held as a bargaining chip

China’s Covid ‘chaos’: How a shortage of fever drugs is sparking a global run on medicines

December 21, 2022 1:00 AM CNN Newsource

By Laura He, Jennie Chen and Eric Cheung, CNN An unprecedented wave of Covid infections in China has triggered widespread drug shortages, as people scramble to buy fever medicines and painkillers to alleviate flu-like symptoms. The panic buying has spread outside mainland China’s borders, with the generic versions of Tylenol and Advil sold out at

Long-cut phones ring again in Ethiopia’s Tigray, bring grief

December 21, 2022 12:39 AM Associated Press

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — For a year and a half, phone calls to people trying to survive one of the world’s worst wars didn’t go through. Now, as phone lines start to be restored to parts of Ethiopia’s Tigray region after a fragile peace deal, some Tigrayans are relieved while

Children among dead as stranded Rohingya face starvation at sea, families say

December 21, 2022 12:32 AM CNN Newsource

By Rhea Mogul, CNN Many Rohingya are feared dead at sea more than three weeks after their boat became stranded off the Indian coast, where at least 160 people remain aboard on the brink of starvation, family members and the United Nations’ refugee agency said. Mohammed Rezuwan Khan, whose sister and 5-year-old niece are on