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New Zealand: Cabinet Approves Amendments on Tighter Gun Laws

18Mar

By Lucy FraserNo Comments

New Zealand: Cabinet Approves Amendments on Tighter Gun Laws

New Zealand: Cabinet Approves Amendments on Tighter Gun Laws. After the terrorist and 50 deaths in the Christian Church of New Zealand, the Cabinet reformed the rules of the gun and approved Tighter Gun Laws. New Zealand Prime Minister Jeddie Alderner addressed a press conference on Monday, saying that the New Zealand Cabinet has decided the principle of change in gun law. The police said the attacker used military-style weapons that were made specifically for dangerous attacks, and the use of them under the current laws of New Zealand is valid. After the aggressive incident on March 15, gun law was demanded to improve, where Weszada Jeddra Alderne said that now it is time to act, soon our laws will be changed. However, during the press conference, he did not explain how reform...

Twitter Account Of Elon Musk Temporarily Blocked

24Oct

By Lucy FraserNo Comments

Business, News, Tech

Twitter Account Of Elon Musk Temporarily Blocked

Twitter account of Elon Musk temporarily Blocked. Twitter temporarily blocked the account of Tesla CEO Elon Musk, because the social media company thought the well-known American entrepreneur was hacked. That is what Musk has known via Twitter, with the addition "haha". The boss of the maker of electric cars is known as an eager Twitter user who regularly creates a stir with his tweets. But this time Twitter discovered that he had posted extraordinary things. That's why his account was blocked for a while. Musk had thrown various manga images into the world a few hours earlier, and his Twitter followers asked if they wanted to buy bitcoins. Earlier this year, Musk made a duet for a paedophile in a tweet. He also declared on Twitter to consider Tesla from the fair. That last...

Google Will Remove 81 YouTube-Related YouTube Channels

24Aug

By Lucy FraserNo Comments

International, News, Tech

Google Will Remove 81 YouTube-Related YouTube Channels

Google will Remove 81 YouTube-related YouTube channels from Iran and Russia. Google has removed 39 YouTube-related YouTube channels. The company also excluded six pages from its blogger Blogger and thirteen accounts from its social media Google Plus. The internet security company FireEye noticed some of the accounts, Google declares Thursday on its blog. Earlier this week it became known that this company also tipped Facebook about Iranian accounts on the social network. Google researchers link the Iranian accounts with the state broadcaster IRI B. The company encountered related IP addresses, domain names and account information. According to the company, the activity on the Google platforms will, in any case, go back to January 2017. Google has notified the authorities in ...

How to Position the New Role in the UK after Brexit

6Aug

By Lucy FraserNo Comments

Business, Europe, News, Politics, UK

How to Position the New Role in the UK after Brexit

After Brexit, Britain's top priority is to clarify how its foreign policy influences the international landscape and what mechanisms are in place to preserve the influence of the UK's “new role”. Looking back at history, strategic thinking about "where the UK is going" has been around for a long time. Today, this historical issue has returned to the public eye. In 1962, US Secretary of State Dean Acheson claimed that "Great Britain lost its empire but failed to find a new role. She attempted to play a unique role of power, a role that deviated from Europe and based on the special relationship between the United States and Britain; A role based on the leadership of the Commonwealth. This federation has no dominant power, no political consensus, no power, and enjoys a fragile and ...

The Dutch Are More Positive About Their Finances And Institutions

29Jul

By Lucy FraserNo Comments

Business, International, Netherlands, News

The Dutch Are More Positive About Their Finances And Institutions

The Dutch are More Positive about their Finances and Institutions. In the past four years, the Dutch have started to think more positively about their financial circumstances and prospects. Confidence in institutions has also increased. The Central Bureau for Statistics (CBS) reports this Wednesday. The agency regularly asks Dutch people about their well-being on various perspectives. 75 percent of the respondents surveyed in 2017 rated their financial situation as positive. That was 68 percent four years earlier. About 50 percent of the respondents were positive about their financial future, compared to 40 percent in 2013. Confidence in institutions, such as politics and police, increased from 31 percent to 40 percent. Health Statistics Netherlands investigates personal well...

Microsoft Advocates Regulation Facial Recognition

15Jul

By Lucy FraserNo Comments

News, Tech, US

Microsoft Advocates Regulation Facial Recognition

Microsoft Advocates regulation Facial Recognition. Microsoft calls on the US government to regulate facial recognition to prevent misuse of the technology. Microsoft chief lawyer Brad Smith states Friday that face recognition technology causes difficulties affecting people fundamental liberties, essentially privacy and right of expression. According to Smith, the US government is going to control the use of the technology. Smith wants the government to examine what actions it can take against the use of facial recognition to profile people by race, without affecting the positive aspects of technology. Also, the government must ask themselves whether investigative services and law enforcement officers are authorised to use the technology just like that, or whether a minimum leve...

KLM Sees Some Passengers Growing By One Million

10Jul

By Lucy FraserNo Comments

Business, Europe, News

KLM Sees Some Passengers Growing By One Million

KLM Sees some Passengers growing by One Million in the first Six Months. In the first six months of the year, KLM welcomed a large number of passengers in its aircraft compared to the same period last year. Up to and including June, 16.6 million passengers boarded KLM. It means an improvement in the passenger flow with one million passengers. In June more than 2.9 million passengers boarded KLM. That amounts to an increase of 2.7 percent. The total turnover per kilometre flew 3.6 percent higher. The occupancy rate was 90.5 percent. Aeroplanes of KLM were never as crowded according to society itself. According to CEO Pieter Elbers of KLM, the growth figures show that hard work has paid off. The CEO stated earlier that the airline company is being slowed down in its growth due t...

Verstappen Is In The Final Phase, Vettel Wins Grand Prix Of Great Britain

8Jul

By Lucy FraserNo Comments

News, Sports, UK

Verstappen Is In The Final Phase, Vettel Wins Grand Prix Of Great Britain

Verstappen is in the Final Phase, Vettel Wins Grand Prix of Great Britain. Max Verstappen failed early on Sunday in the Grand Prix of Great Britain. Sebastian Vettel won the exciting race at the Silverstone circuit. Lewis Hamilton came back to second place after being held backwards in the first round. Verstappen seemed to take his fifth podium of the season for a long time, but by a spin, in the final phase, he fell back to the twelfth place and not much later he even had to put his car aside because of a difficulty with the brakes. The Dutchman of Red Bull Racing last week in Austria convincingly won his first Grand Prix victory of the season and his fourth from his career. Behind Vettel from Ferrari and Hamilton from Mercedes, Kimi Raikkonen from Ferrari (third) achieved the ...

Cabinet Nominates Schoof As A New Director Of The Intelligence

5Jul

By Lucy FraserNo Comments

Europe, International, News

Cabinet Nominates Schoof As A New Director Of The Intelligence

Cabinet nominates Schoof as a new Director of the Intelligence Service AIVD. Dick Schoof will lead the intelligence and security service AIVD. He has been National Coordinator for Counterterrorism and Security (NCTV) since 2013. The Cabinet will nominate him Friday, confirming sources after reporting by the NOS. Schoof succeeds Rob Bertholee. His term ends later this year. The AIVD has the task of protecting national security by "timely identification of threats, international political improvements and risks that are not immediately visible". One of the tasks of the NCTV is to minimise the risk of terrorist attacks in the Netherlands. Schoof was also involved in the aftermath of the MH17 disaster. The NCTV is also involved in cybersecurity. According to Schoof, Netherlands has...

Financial Position Pension Funds Stable In June

2Jul

By Lucy FraserNo Comments

Europe, International, News

Financial Position Pension Funds Stable In June

Financial position Pension Funds Stable in June. The financial position of the Dutch pension funds remained stable in June compared to the previous month. According to research agency Aon, the funds had to deal with minimal movements in interest rates and terms of their investments. Resulted in the so-called funding ratio at the same level. This indicator, which shows the extent to which the funds can meet their responsibilities, averaged 111 per cent last month. Means that the Dutch pension sector is still not out of trouble. Many funds do not expect to be able to increase their pensions in the coming years. The chance of discounts is still in the air. In The Hague, the social partners have been working for a long time on a large-scale improvement of the pension system. But th...