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☆ How small-town Maine embraced a family that fled the Taliban
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-18 | by ( Elyse Lightman Samuels | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +36 min

CAPE ELIZABETH, Maine — Last November, at about midnight, Omid was lying in bed in his new home in Cape Elizabeth, Maine — exhausted, but unable to sleep. On this night, and on many nights during Omid's first few months in Maine, Nasir was soon at his door. Omid's family arrived in Maine just before Halloween in 2021 and recently celebrated one year in Maine. Catholic Charities, the local refugee-resettlement organization in Maine, was working with Omid's family to help them resettle. After Omid's family escaped Kabul, members of his extended family came by to collect some of their more precious items, and gave other things away.

☆ Crypto markets in turmoil over FTX bankruptcy
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-11 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +9 min

Nov 11 (Reuters) - Crypto exchange FTX filed for U.S. bankruptcy on Friday and Sam Bankman-Fried stepped down as CEO, after a liquidity crisis that has prompted intervention from regulators around the world. FTX, its affiliated crypto trading fund Alameda Research and about 130 other companies have commenced voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in Delaware, FTX said. MARKET REACTION:Shares of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related firms dropped on Friday after FTX, one of the biggest crypto exchanges, said it would initiate bankruptcy proceedings in the United States, triggering a potentially massive meltdown in the industry. "The shock was that this guy was the face of the crypto industry and it turned out that the emperor had no clothes. Ultimately, the lesson here is that the crypto industry needs to stop trusting cults of personality, no matter how well-intentioned they might seem."

The trip comes amid rising voices within Scholz's ruling coalition calling for a rethink of Germany's China policy, and growing public concern about Berlin's commercial reliance on the global economic powerhouse. One in two Germans wish that Germany's economy could be more independent from China, a survey published by ARD broadcaster showed on Thursday. China has been Germany's biggest trading partner for the past six years, with volumes reaching over 245 billion euros ($238.9 billion) in 2021. During the trip, where Scholz will meet Xi and prime minister Li Keqiang, the German Chancellor is expected to discuss Russia's war in Ukraine, hoping that China can convince Russia to end hostilities. But Xi expressed his concerns over Ukraine to Russian President Vladimir Putin when the two leaders met in September.

☆ Elon Musk, who runs four other companies, will now be Twitter CEO
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-01 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Musk, who also runs rocket company SpaceX, brain-chip startup Neuralink and tunneling firm the Boring Company, fired Twitter's previous chief, Parag Agrawal, and other top company officials last week. Musk had previously changed his Twitter bio to "Chief Twit" in an allusion to his planned move. Twitter on Monday declined comment on how long Musk might remain CEO or appoint someone else. In another filing on Monday, Musk revealed that he became the sole director of Twitter as a result of the takeover. Last week, Musk's takeover of the social media company for $44 billion concluded a months-long saga.

☆ Iran university students strike, piling pressure on rulers
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-01 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Asieh Bakeri, the daughter of a war hero from the country's conflict with Iraq in the 1980s, lashed out at Iran's rulers. Protesters from all walks of life have taken part, with students and women playing a prominent role, waving and burning headscarves. Analysts doubt that the protests can bring down Iran's clerical rulers but they say the unrest is seen as a step that may eventually lead to dramatic political change. At least four students from Bahonar Middle School in the city of Sanandaj were arrested by security forces, said HRANA. Iran's hardline judiciary will hold public trials of about 1,000 people indicted for unrest in Tehran, intensifying efforts to crush weeks of demonstrations.

☆ Elon Musk has dissolved Twitter's 9-person board of directors and become its sole director
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-31 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk has scrapped Twitter's board of directors. Musk had himself tried to join Twitter's board in the spring before clashing with then-CEO Parag Agrawal. When first outlining his plans for his ownership of Twitter, Musk said he would need to take the company private to make his desired changes. The same evening, Musk also ousted CFO Ned Segal, chief legal officer Vijaya Gadde, and general counsel Sean Edgett, sources told Insider. Musk had himself been set to join Twitter's board before he offered to buy the company, but u-turned after clashing with Agrawal over text.

☆ Analysis: Iran's leaders are safe but protests raise the stakes over imposing veil
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-23 | by ( Michael Georgy | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

"The death of Mahsa Amiri released decades of suppressed energy and will among women to fight back. Under Iran's Islamic Sharia law, imposed after the 1979 revolution, women are obliged to cover their hair and wear long, loose-fitting clothes to conceal their figures. While that defiance is common, the shock over Amini's death and nationwide protests have raised the stakes as Iranian women call for more freedoms. In 2014, rights activist Masih Alinejad started a Facebook campaign "My Stealthy Freedom", where she shared pictures of unveiled Iranian women sent to her. "The protests pose less of a risk to immediate government stability than to its legitimacy and sustainability over the longer term."

☆ Germania a exportat în 2020 arme în valoare de un miliard de euro în țări din Orientul Mijlociu
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-03 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

Guvernul german a aprobat în 2020 exporturi de arme în valoare de peste un miliard de euro în ţări implicate în conflictele din Yemen şi Libia, informează duminică DPA. De asemenea, a fost acordată permisiunea de a furniza arme în Qatar (305,1 milioane de euro), Emiratele Arabe Unite (51,3 milioane), Kuweit (23,4 milioane) şi Turcia (22,9 milioane), potrivit Agerpres. Sumele totalizează 1,16 miliarde de euro, potrivit ministerului. În Yemen, o alianţă condusă de Arabia Saudită împreună cu guvernul de la Sana'a luptă împotriva rebelilor huthi susţinuţi de Iran. Alianţa include Emiratele Arabe Unite, Egipt, Kuweit, Iordania şi Bahrain.

Persons: Khalifa Haftar Organizations: Economiei, Emiratele Arabe Unite, Agerpres, Licenţe Locations: Yemen, Libia, Egipt, Bundestag, Qatar, Emiratele Arabe, Kuweit, Turcia, Bahrain, Arabia Saudită, Iran, Alianţa, Emiratele Arabe Unite, Iordania, Qatarul, Tripoli

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