Trump’s decision to quit the Paris Agreement may be his worst business ‘deal’ yet: Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement is certainly a blow for the global climate regime. But it is primarily a bad deal for the US. It is bad for America’s economy, its global leadership, and its non-climate policy …
Man accidentally texts parole office for drug deal: An Arizona man on parole was arrested along with six others after he mistakenly sent a text message to a parole office employee asking about a drug deal. : Weird News Have you tried: Sailing in Africa ?
South Africa in the news: South Africa government contemplates legal battle to revive Rosatom nuclear deal: South Africa’s energy ministry and Russian nuclear power giant Rosatom have indicated that they hope to press on with plans to build nuclear power stations in the country, despite the decision of the South African High Court that their …
Court ruling on Zuma’s nuclear deal is a marker of South Africa’s political health: Celebrations outside the Western Cape High Court after it ruled against the South African government's proposed nuclear deal. Nic Bothma/EPA The South African government’s plan to bulldoze through a nuclear energy deal has been dealt what might be a fatal blow …
Did Europe’s leading fire festival do a deal with the Devil to stay alight?: Patrick Down, CC BY-SA In the heart of Edinburgh on the eve of May Day every year is an ancient Gaelic fire festival called Beltane. Set on the imposing Calton Hill, opposite the headquarters of the Scottish government, this year marks …
12 ways to maintain your existing community: How you deal with difficult conversations?: Help us collect community knowledge by blogging about the weekly community management theme. Blog posts are due the following Thursday after each new theme is announced. Next week’s challenge is Difficult Conversations. Check out ways to recruit new community members in week #1 blogging challenge. …
South Africa in the news: Numsa insists no deal struck to end #BusStrike: Cape Town – The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) issued a statement on Friday morning confirming that it had not signed a deal with any employer in the bus passenger sector to end the current strike. The industrial action …
Why efforts to secure a deal on banning all nuclear weapons are so important: Reuters Last week negotiations to ban nuclear weapons started in New York. The talks came as a result of United Nations General Assembly resolution adopted in December last year. The resolution takes forward multilateral negotiations on complete nuclear disarmament. States started …
South Africa in the news: South Africa’s Jacob Zuma may step down early in a deal to oust finance minister Pravin Gordhan: Two senior party sources of ANC have disclosed to Reuters that South Africa’s president, Jacob Zuma, is considering offering to step down next year, at least 12 months before his term as South …
Zuma’s cabinet reshuffle opens the door for nuclear deal in South Africa: Malusi Gigaba has been appointed as South Africa's finance minister. EPA South Africa has just witnessed a game changing cabinet reshuffle with the firing of five ministers and several deputy ministers. This included the Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan and his second-in-charge Mcebisi Jonas. …
Over one million UK homeowners on wrong mortgage deal: Over 1.1 million UK homeowners are sitting on the wrong mortgage deal and wasting over 2,500 every year according to latest research. The research from L&C Mortgages also discovered that 30 per cent or 3.4 million households do not know their current interest rate of their …
Wine expert avoids police investigation into thefts with bizarre deal: A wine expert who pilfered up to $ 300,000 worth of stock from Melbourne wholesaler CellarHand will avoid a police investigation after agreeing to an extraordinary deal with his former employer and friend. Lak Quach, 40, a former sommelier, vintner and reviewer for the prestigious …
South Africa in the news: South Africa: Court Hears Why Nuclear Deal Should Be Stopped: “We had the arms deal, we had Nkandla … it’s not the majority of South Africans that will benefit from this deal,” says activist South Africa’s nuclear procurement programme was probably the biggest procurement that any country had ever undertaken, …
South Africa in the news: Microsoft-LinkedIn deal cleared by regulators, opening new doors for people around the world: The approval in Brussels follows similar reviews and clearances in the United States, Canada, Brazil and South Africa. In each country and in a number of others, we’ve had the opportunity to review our combination with government …
A momentous peace deal with the FARC – so what next for Colombia?: The groundbreaking news reached me when I was in Bogotá in a meeting with the head of the Colombian Army: after more than 50 years of armed conflict, and four years of negotiations, the Colombian government and the leftist guerrilla group, the …
Uber’s Didi deal dispels Chinese ‘El Dorado’ myth once and for all: Plenty of gold but little growth. Golden dragons via www.shutterstock.com Didi, the Chinese ride-sharing service, did more than run the American ride service, Uber, out of China. In my view, it destroyed the China El Dorado myth. The El Dorado (“the golden one”) …
The TTIP trade deal is lost at sea: Trading up? Louis Vest/Flickr, CC BY-NC The future of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the US and European Union seems bleak. Beset by doubts and stumbling alongside the UK’s referendum on EU membership, the TTIP is starting to look like an awful lot of …
Google deal: in defence of the taxman: YanLev/Shutterstock Google came under a barrage of criticism for paying less than its “fair share” of tax and HMRC has been accused of being soft or incompetent for the “sweetheart deal” it negotiated. Publicly available information is not sufficient to judge whether this is a “good” or “bad” …