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Trump immigration crackdown pushes deportation orders to highest level since 1998

Trump immigration crackdown pushes deportation orders to highest level since 1998

The immigration policy promoted by the president donald trump is reaching unprecedented levels. In June, the United States recorded the highest number of deportation orders since records exist, a sign that the strategy of hardening against irregular immigration is advancing rapidly. According to data from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Tracof the Syracuse Universityfederal immigration ...

Apple asks judge to ban OpenAI from using alleged trade secrets

Apple asks judge to ban OpenAI from using alleged trade secrets

Apple Inc. asked a federal judge to immediately order OpenAI to stop using what it calls stolen trade secrets, in the latest episode of its lawsuit in which it accuses the artificial intelligence company of participating in a coordinated campaign to steal confidential information about upcoming products. The company requests a court order forcing OpenAI ...

Spain's public deficit until May, excluding city councils, fell to 1.03% of GDP

Spain’s public deficit until May, excluding city councils, fell to 1.03% of GDP

This deficit figure was equivalent to 1.16% of GDP in the same period of the previous year. In the first four months of this year, the deficit amounted to 0.26% of GDP Spain’s public deficit, which includes the central Administration, Social Security and the autonomous communities, but excludes city councils, is reduced to 1.03% of ...

Microsoft commits $18 billion to build AI capacity in Australia

Microsoft shares soar on cloud push from 2022

The actions of Microsoft Corp. surged after the company reported its biggest cloud growth in four years, suggesting its AI and computing services are gaining traction with customers. The income of Azure Cloud increased 43% during the fiscal fourth quarter, the company reported Wednesday in a statement. This was the largest quarterly growth since the ...

Santiago Peña confirms his attendance at the presidential inauguration in Colombia

Santiago Peña confirms his attendance at the presidential inauguration in Colombia

The president of Paraguay, Santiago Penaconfirmed his attendance at the inauguration ceremony of the elected president of Colombia, Abelardo de la Espriella. The confirmation was made official after a meeting between the Paraguayan president and the Colombian vice president-elect, Jose Manuel Restrepo. With this decision, Grief He becomes the first head of state to ratify ...

McDonald's leads the ranking of the most valuable restaurant chains in the world

McDonald’s leads the ranking of the most valuable restaurant chains in the world

McDonald’s remains the most valuable restaurant chain in the world with a market capitalization of US$195.1 billion, a figure that far exceeds that of its closest competitors. According to data from CompaniesMarketCapthe company is worth more than four times what the second and third companies in the ranking register: Chipotle Mexican Grill (US$45.2 billion) and ...

Meta dismissed the lawsuit over WhatsApp privacy accusations

Meta dismissed the lawsuit over WhatsApp privacy accusations

A judge dismissed a lawsuit alleging that WhatsAppproperty of Meta Platforms Inc., can access users’ encrypted messages and has made false claims about the privacy and security of its chat service. U.S. District Judge Rita Lin on Thursday night dismissed the lawsuit filed by an international user group, but said they can review it and ...

Opec+ will raise oil production targets again starting in September

Opec+ will raise oil production targets again starting in September

OPEC+ is likely to agree, when it meets on August 2, to a further increase in its oil production targets starting in September, three sources said, even though the US war with Iran is once again preventing some members of the group from increasing their output. Sources indicated that it is likely that seven key ...

China's public spending plummets to lowest level since October

China’s public spending plummets to lowest level since October

China’s public spending plunged in June to its lowest level since October, suggesting the government further tightened fiscal policy despite growing calls for more support as economic growth slows. According to calculations of Bloomberg based on data from Ministry of Financepublic spending fell 11.9% in June compared to the same month of the previous year. ...