Новости за 07.01.2025

1. McDonald's boss facing questions over firm's working conditions and abuse claims  BBC.com
2. More than 700 McDonald’s workers join legal action over harassment claims  The Guardian
3. McDonald's sex for shifts scandal as 700 staff and ex-workers take legal action  The Mirror
4. McDonald’s facing new harassment claims as UK boss set to be questioned by MPs over labour rights  The Independent
5. McDonald’s workers are forced to endure sexual abuse  Socialist Worker

Lila Abed, The National Interest

The United States and Mexico must revive mutual trust to tackle shared challenges in combating crime, narcotics, and illegal immigration.

Joanna Rozpedowski, Res. Statecraft

Erfan Fard, Jerusalem Post

Since the collapse of Bashar al-Assad's brutal regime in Syria, Iran's dictator Ali Khamenei has delivered four inflammatory speeches targeting Syria, including...

Avesta Afshari Mehr, The Moscow Times

Iran and Russia have solidified their partnership amid global geopolitical instability, which signals a growing importance of their cooperation over the...

Roger Kimball, AG

The Global Engagement Center was defunded, only to reemerge under a new name—proof that bureaucracy rarely dies, it just rebrands.

Siva Vaidhyanathan, The Guardian

Willis Sparks, GZero Media

A G-Zero world is an era when no one power or group of powers is both willing and able to drive a global agenda and maintain international order. We've been living...

Joseph S. Nye Jr., Project Syndicate

One question that 2025 may begin to answer is whether the BRICS group (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) is becoming the new center of power in...

Michael Beckley, Foreign Affairs

By all appearances, the United States is a mess. Two-thirds of Americans believe the country is on the wrong track, and nearly 70 percent rate the economy as...

Bari Weiss, The Free Press

The Canadian prime minister was celebrated as a liberal hero. But many of his policies were illiberal—and unpopular.

Jon M. Chu at the London premiere of Wicked last year

Wicked director Jon M Chu has confirmed that he’ll be following the hit movie musical by bringing Britney Spears’ life story to the big screen.

Back in August, Deadline reported that Universal Pictures had bagged the rights to Britney’s best-selling memoir The Woman In Me, with Jon attached to direct.

Following this, there was a bit of confusion when the …Baby One More Time singer claimed on Instagram that she and Jon were... Читать дальше...

A hidden icefall captivates visitors.

Gleyber Torres' time with the New York Yankees has officially come to an end. Could the Bombers fill that void by signing veteran Donovan Solano?

A-League Women 2024/2025 - Matchday 8 - Played 27-Dec-24 - Posted by sedor18

With less than two weeks before Donald Trump takes office, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg announced a series of changes to its content moderation practices on Facebook and Instagram, including ending fact-checking and other restrictions. “The recent elections also feel like a cultural tipping point towards, once again, prioritizing speech,” Zuckerberg said in a video posted this […]

A spokesperson said the room was restored to 'a politically neutral setting'.

Donald Trump's lawyers this week moved to block the United States Department of Justice from releasing special counsel Jack Smith's final reports regarding his criminal investigations and prosecutions of the president-elect.

Chelsea have launched an attempt to bring Marc Guehi back to Stamford Bridge.

Instagram rushed to correct a glaring error following Meghan Markle's return to the social media platform.

Alex Sim-Wise, 43, says the crippling fear — known as emetophobia — began when she was eight years old. She is so triggered by people throwing up that she can't go to bars, ride boats, visit fairgrounds, or other activities.

A-League Women 2024/2025 - Matchday 8 - Played 27-Dec-24 - Posted by sedor18

M&H Carriers is to launch a C1 driver recruitment campaign and offering candidates fully funded training to ease a chronic shortage of drivers, writes Chris Tindall. A dearth of talent had reached critical levels last [...]