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Twitter says it will inform its staff today about whether they will be laid off following the firm's takeover by multi-billionaire Elon Musk. In an internal email, the social media company said the cuts are an effort to place Twitter on a healthy path. The firm added that its offices would be temporarily closed and badge access would be suspended. Musk will be Twitter's chief executive after buying the firm […]

South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff JCS has disclosed that North Korea has fired at least one long-range and two short-range ballistic missiles, while the Prime Minister of Japan Fumio Kishida says one may have been an intercontinental ballistic missile. It comes after Pyongyang yesterday launched its most missiles in a single day including one that landed near South Korea's territorial waters. Seoul responded by firing three missiles of its […]

Brazil has taken a turn to the left as former president Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva defeats far-right incumbent president Jair Bolsonaro in the presidential election. After a divisive campaign that saw two bitter rivals on opposite sides of the political spectrum go head to head, Lula won 50.9% of the votes which was enough to beat Bolsonaro, whose supporters had been confident of victory. It was a stunning comeback […]

The world’s richest man Elon Musk has completed his 44 billion dollar takeover of Twitter. The Chief executive of Twitter and finance boss have reportedly left with immediate effect, bringing to a close a saga that saw Twitter going to court to hold Musk to the terms of a takeover deal that he had tried to escape. Musk tweeted his interest in the platform was not about making money. Twitter […]

South Korean electronics giant Samsung has named convicted heir and de facto boss Lee Jae-Yong as its executive chairman. The symbolic move means the world's biggest smartphone maker would now be officially run by the third generation of its founding family. Lee, who was convicted of bribery and embezzlement in 2017, was granted a special presidential pardon in August after he was imprisoned twice for bribing a former president. The […]

Security services in Norway say they have arrested a university lecturer accused of working for Russia as a spy. Oslo's internal security agency, the PST, arrested the man on his way to work after identifying him as a threat to fundamental national interests. The suspect, said to be in his 30s, had posed as a Brazilian academic, but officials say he is actually Russian. Moscow's embassy in Oslo has however […]

The United Nations UN's nuclear watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA says it will send a team to inspect two sites in Ukraine at the government's request. Officials revealed that IAEA inspectors will examine the sites for signs of undeclared nuclear activities. The location of the facilities was not announced, but Director-General Rafael Grossi said that one of them was inspected last month. It comes amid Russian accusations that Kyiv […]

A protester Bob Chan says he was not trying to enter Manchester's Chinese consulate during a pro-democracy demonstration that saw violent scenes on Sunday. Chan told a news conference he was dragged onto the consulate grounds and beaten by men, leaving him with injuries requiring hospital treatment. It comes after a British member of Parliament MP accused one of China's most senior United Kingdom UK diplomats of being involved but consul-general […]

A female Iranian climber Elnaz Rekabi, who competed with her hair uncovered said she did so because her hijab fell off involuntarily. 33-year-old Rekabi was praised by those protesting against Iran's dress code after a video showed her violating it at an Asian Championships in South Korea on her Instagram account. The Instagram post yesterday apologized for getting everybody worried and said she was flying home. She said due to […]