A Bangladesh court on Monday sentenced Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus to six months in prison for labor law violations, prosecutors said. From what he said it was a crime he did not commit. Yunus, 83, and his Grameen Bank won the Peace Prize in 2006 for their work lifting millions of people out of poverty ...
A strong earthquake shook central Japan on Monday, prompting warnings for residents to evacuate some areas of its western coast. leaving thousands of homes without power and disrupting flights and train services. The movement, with a preliminary magnitude of 7.6, caused waves of around 1 meter in some areas of the Sea of Japan coast ...
Consumer prices in Peru accelerated in December and the inflation rate closed in 2023 at 4.05% year-on-year, the lowest level in the last three years. The Government said this Monday, at a time when the mining country is struggling to emerge from an economic recession. The central bank, an entity led by Julio Velarde, has ...
The year 2023 was marked not only by wars that generated an economic impact worldwide, but by a series of events that opened the way to artificial intelligence and with it a new way of conceiving the business world and big business, without passing up natural events that reopened the debate on global warming and ...
In its resolution, the country’s highest court, chaired by Horacio Rosatti, clarified which will only address the issue starting February 1, when the judicial fair concludes. In this sense, the Court turned the file over to the Attorney General of the Nation, Eduardo Casal, so that he could issue an opinion with his consideration on ...
With the end of the year came the ranking published by Bloomberg in which the top 10 fortunes of the billionaires Latin Americans. The Brazilian presence predominates in this (five of them are from this country); on the other hand, Iris Fontbona is the only woman in the ranking and, representing Colombia, is Alejandro Santo ...
Finnish telecommunications equipment group Nokia declared on Saturday that will not meet its financial goals for 2023, as it cannot recognize the revenue it would earn from license renewal discussions that are expected to continue well into next year. Nokia said its full-year outlook is based on the closing of pending license renewals at Nokia ...
The Confederal Central Committee (CCC) of the CGT meeting and a national strike was confirmed with mobilization for January 24 in repudiation of the Decree of Necessity and Urgency (DNU) that comes into effect this Friday. On January 10 there will be a plenary session of regional delegations. The meeting is held to analyze the ...
Denmark’s shipping industry, home to some of the world’s largest companies, agreed to double the salaries of crews sailing the Red Sea to offset the danger posed by recent attacks. Hazardous living conditions benefit comes into effect for time spent in two defined high-risk areas in the regionaccording to an agreement presented on Friday by ...
Danish shipping company Maersk.CO said Wednesday that it has scheduled several dozen container ships to travel through the Suez Canal and the Red Sea in the coming weeks, having interrupted his travels in the area this month due to the risk of Houthi attacks. The company added that the schedule is subject to change based ...
