Oxfam on Tuesday blasted the European Union for delaying a discussion on a global minimum corporate tax rate due to a battle with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s government over military aid for Ukraine and E.U. funding for Hungary.”E.U. national interests have prevailed despite the cost-of-living crisis.”The developments came after Orbán’s government in June blocked an E.U. directive supporting a 15% international tax rate negotiated by members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)—a move that garnered global condemnation even as tax justice experts and economists argued the rate is far too low. Hungary has the bloc’s lowest corporate…
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Wormholes might sound like something that belongs in a Star Trek episode rather than a research paper, but scientists just simulated one on Google’s Sycamore quantum computer. The result suggests these devices could be used to test out fundamental physical theories. The possibility of wormholes was first outlined in a 1935 paper by Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen. In broad terms, they described a bridge in space-time that connects two black holes in different locations. Science fiction shows have frequently depicted these bridges as a way to rapidly travel from one location to another by flying a spaceship into one…
Lawyers for thousands of New Yorkers who had their public benefits stolen through automatic teller machine and credit-card “skimming” fraud are urging city and state officials to recoup people’s stolen money and upgrade to cards with better protections. Officials from the Legal Aid Society and the Empire Justice Center in Albany sent a letter Thursday to the commissioner and top officials at the state Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA), asking for help for more than 2,200 clients who have had their benefits stolen in the first eight months of 2022. Fraudsters “skim” credit and debit card information by secretly installing…
The study shows how gender inequalities and harmful gender norms are blocking the end of the AIDS pandemic, with rising new infections and continuing deaths in many parts of the planet. Last year, 650 000 people died from AIDS and 1.5 million acquired HIV, the virus that causes the disease. The way out “The world will not be able defeat AIDS while reinforcing patriarchy,” said Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of UNAIDS, who called for addressing the intersecting inequalities that women face. “The only effective route map to ending AIDS, achieving the sustainable development goals and ensuring health, rights and shared…
SAN DIEGO — Here Dave Martinez and Mike Rizzo were again, doing everything to frame the third base job as an upcoming competition between Carter Kieboom and Jeimer Candelario, the latest measuring stick for Kieboom, the former top prospect. But the subtext of their comments Monday — delivered an hour apart at baseball’s winter meetings in San Diego — is that Kieboom is recovering from major elbow surgery and Candelario was signed to play most days at third, where he has made 505 career starts. That’s the expectation, at least, among many people with the Washington Nationals, even if they…
KYIV, Ukraine — Drones struck inside Russia’s border with Ukraine on Tuesday in the second day of attacks exposing the vulnerability of some of Moscow’s most important military sites, experts said.Ukrainian officials did not formally confirm carrying out drone strikes inside Russia, and they have maintained ambiguity over previous high-profile attacks.But Britain’s Defense Ministry said Russia was likely to consider the attacks on Russian bases more than 500 kilometers (300 miles) from the border with Ukraine as “some of the most strategically significant failures of force protection since its invasion of Ukraine.”Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russian authorities will “take…
The world’s presumed oldest person, Kane Tanaka of Japan, died in April in her native country at the age of 119. Despite her spectacular longevity, she could not surpass the record set by France’s Jeanne Calment 25 years ago. Calment died on August 4, 1997 at the age of 122 years and five months (or precisely 44,724 days). What are the chances of this record being beaten? My area of expertise, a branch of statistics that deals with the modelling of rare events, can provide some answers to such questions. The question is, how many candidates for a new world…
This is a breaking story… Please check back for possible updates…A New York jury on Tuesday found two subsidiaries of Trump Organization, former President Donald Trump’s company, guilty on all counts of criminal tax fraud.The New York Times reports the Manhattan jury convicted the Trump Organization on 17 counts including scheming to defraud, conspiracy, criminal tax fraud, and falsifying business records. The Trump Corporation and the Trump Payroll Corporation were also accused of paying executives’ personal expenses without reporting them as income, and for fraudulently classifying the executives as independent contractors instead of employees.”This was a case about greed and…
A Ford Argo AI test vehicle drives through downtown Detroit in July 2019. (Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images) Americans are relatively cautious when it comes to the widespread use of driverless cars, and a new analysis of Pew Research Center survey data shows there is a clear age gap on the issue, with adults 50 and older more likely than younger adults to express wariness about the technology. When asked about the broad impact driverless cars could have, 53% of those 50 and older say the widespread use of such vehicles would be a bad idea for society, compared with…
“The military continues to hold proceedings in secretive courts in violation of basic principles of fair trial and contrary to core judicial guarantees of independence and impartiality”, Volker Türk added, calling for the suspension of all executions and a return to a moratorium on death penalty. Dealing out death On Wednesday, a military court sentenced at least seven university students to death. “Military courts have consistently failed to uphold any degree of transparency contrary to the most basic due process or fair trial guarantees”, underscored Mr. Türk. Meanwhile, on Thursday, reports revealed that as many as four additional death sentences…