26/10/2024 |
Delta sues CrowdStrike over software update that prompted mass flight disruptionsDelta Air Lines (DAL.N) on Friday sued cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike (CRWD.O) in a Georgia state court after a global outage in July caused mass flight cancellations, disrupted travel plans of 1.3 million customers and cost the carrier more than $500 million.
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Climate change: UN report says planet to warm by 3.1 C without greater actionCurrent climate policies will result in global warming of more than 3 degrees Celsius (5.4 degrees Fahrenheit) by the end of the century, according to a United Nations report on Thursday, more than twice the rise agreed to nearly a decade ago.
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French lower house approves budget amendment to tax billionairesFrance's National Assembly on Friday approved an amendment to the government's 2025 belt-tightening budget bill that would hit the country's wealthiest individuals with a billionaires tax.
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24/10/2024 |
Greece imposes restrictions to contain spread of pox among sheep, goatsGreece has banned the transportation and reproduction of sheep and goats across the country for 10 days after detecting more than 100 pox infections, the agriculture ministry said.
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Rain batters India's Bengaluru, renews haphazard expansion concernsSchools were shut and people worked from home in India's tech hub of Bengaluru on Wednesday after the heaviest rains in nearly three decades again brought the city to a standstill.
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Climate change worsened rains in flood-hit African regions, scientists sayDevastating rains that triggered deadly floods in Cameroon, Chad, Niger, Nigeria and Sudan in recent months were worsened by human-caused climate change, a team of international scientists said on Wednesday.
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23/10/2024 |
Havana, Cuban provinces see power restored; Tropical Storm Oscar leaves six deadCuba made fast progress restoring power to swaths of the Caribbean island nation on Tuesday, both in Havana and outlying provinces, even as emergency and grid workers struggled to reach areas ravaged by Tropical Storm Oscar.
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Germany identifies its first case of new mpox variantGermany has detected its first case of the new mpox variant, the Robert Koch Institute for public health said on Tuesday, adding that it viewed the risk to the wider population as low.
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Slovakia reports bird flu outbreak on farm, WOAH saysSlovakia has reported an outbreak of avian influenza on a poultry farm, the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) said on Tuesday, as Europe faces a seasonal upturn in the deadly disease commonly known as bird flu.
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22/10/2024 |
Most of Havana back online as Cuba works to revive power gridCuba's power-grid operator said it had restored electricity to most of the capital Havana on Monday even as Tropical Storm Oscar lashed the island's eastern end, downing trees and power lines.
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