Microsoft is cutting 10,000 employees, or nearly 5% of its workforce, joining other tech companies that have scaled back expansions in the pandemic era. The company said in a regulatory filing on Wednesday that the layoffs were a response to “macroeconomic conditions and changing customer priorities.” The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant said it would also … Read more
DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — The world is in a “sorry state” due to a myriad of interrelated challenges, including climate change and Russia’s war in Ukraine, which “pile up like cars in an accident chain reaction,” the UN chief told the World Economic Forum meeting Wednesday. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres delivered his grim message on … Read more
SYDNEY (AP) — A Qantas flight traveling from New Zealand to Sydney landed safely on one engine after making a distress call over the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday. Qantas flight 144 with 145 passengers on board landed at Sydney Airport from Auckland, New Zealand, after a 3.5-hour flight between the most populated cities in neighboring … Read more
CHERNIHIV, Ukraine (AP) — In a Ukrainian hospital ward for wounded soldiers, where daylight barely penetrates, a father talks to his wounded son for hours. Serhii Shumei, 64, never berated Vitalii for choosing to go to war. Even now, despite the damage to his son’s brain from an artillery shell explosion, Serhii feels pride, not … Read more
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak promised on Saturday to provide tanks and artillery systems to Ukraine, amid new missile attacks by Moscow targeting several Ukrainian cities for the first time in nearly two weeks. Nine people were killed and 64 others injured in the southeastern city of Dnipro, where a Russian missile … Read more
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran said on Saturday it executed a former senior Defense Ministry official and dual Iranian-British national, despite international warnings not to carry out the death penalty. The execution has further heightened tensions with the West amid nationwide anti-government protests rocking the Islamic Republic. The hanging of Ali Reza Akbari, … Read more
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia claimed on Friday that its forces had captured a fiercely contested salt mining town, in what would mark a rare victory for the Kremlin after a series of setbacks in his war in Ukraine. Ukrainian authorities said the fight for Soledar continues. Moscow has portrayed the battles for the city … Read more
As Russian troops wage a fierce house-to-house struggle for control of strongholds in eastern Ukraine, a parallel battle is unfolding in the upper echelons of military power in Moscow, with President Vladimir Putin reshuffling his top generals while rival camps try to win his service. The fighting for the salt mining town of Soledar and … Read more
NEW YORK (AP) — No, the public didn’t get tired of hearing about Prince Harry. Sales for “Spare” placed the Duke of Sussex in rarefied company. Penguin Random House announced on Wednesday that first-day sales for Harry’s telltale memoir surpassed 1.4 million copies, a record pace for non-fiction from a company that also publishes Barack … Read more
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The fate of a devastated salt mining town in eastern Ukraine hung in the balance Wednesday in one of the bloodiest battles of the Russian invasion, as the tireless resistance of Ukraine and other challenges prompted Moscow to shake up its military leadership again. Russian forces used jets, mortars and rockets … Read more
