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Credit: CC0 Public Domain A high-powered intervention by 23 former national Presidents, 22 former Prime Ministers, a former UN General Secretary, and 3 Nobel Laureates are being made today to press for an urgent agreement from international negotiators on a Pandemic Accord under the Constitution of the World Health Organization, to bolster the world's collective preparedness and response to future pandemics.…

Samsung Electronics may have to deal with a worker strike if no progress is made on salary negotiations between the company and the labor union. The union is now threatening a strike if Samsung Electronics doesn't meet their demands. The labor union is asking for a significant salary increase. While Samsung has offered them an increase, there's a considerable gap in the percentage that the union is asking for and what Samsung is willing to offer. Samsung's labor union could go on strike for the first time in 55 years No…

Elon Musk met with Donald Trump in Florida this past Sunday, according to a new report from the New York Times. And while it’s not clear what the two men discussed, news of the meeting comes as Musk has ratcheted up his rhetoric against illegal immigration and Trump looks for new sources of cash.The Elon Musk Twitter Saga, Part 1 of Who Knows?The Times report doesn’t name a source for the meeting but cites “three people briefed on the meeting.” An account that tracks Musk’s jet on the social media platform BlueSky shows…

The California dad charged with helping his teen son plot what turned into the deadly armed robbery of rapper PnB Rock failed to get his murder charges dropped Friday with arguments including one that suggested the son may have fired out of “fear.” At a morning hearing in Compton, Calif., a judge said that while much of the evidence against Freddie Trone, 42, is circumstantial, she found a “reasonable basis” to conclude Trone held a position of “influence” over his 17-year-old son and knew he possessed a gun when…

The Nigerian Association of Road Transport Owners (NARTO) has directed its members to withdraw their trucks from petroleum product loading activities with effect from Monday, 19 February. The association noted that the decision to withdraw its operation was due to the high operational costs in the industry. The association disclosed this in a letter dated 15 February, addressed to the General Secretary of the Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas (NUPENG) and signed by its national President, Othman Yusuf.…

With the impending launch of Apple Vision Pro just around the corner, developers have started to receive confirmation of their app’s approval, heralding the launch of the Vision Pro’s App Store.Pre-orders for Apple’s newest product are set to begin on Friday, with a rumored 60,000 - 80,000 units of the $3,499 AR/VR headset available. Hands-on impressions have started to appear, with those who have tried the headset impressed with Apple’s first new hero product since the launch of the Apple Watch in 2015.Taking to X…

Cher’s troubled son, Elijah Blue Allman, has apparently found a way to fend off his mother’s efforts to gain conservatorship over his estate. The 47-year-old musician son of Cher and her ex-husband, the late rocker Gregg Allman, has apparently joined forces with his estranged wife, Marieangela King, to call off their divorce. Us Weekly reported that Allman and King filed documents Tuesday to dismiss their pending divorce proceedings. This legal move comes six days after Cher filed documents of her own seeking…

Posted in: Comics, Marvel Comics, Preview | Tagged: x-menDiscover how the eternals of Immortal X-Men #18 face the ultimate time crunch in a futureless, pastless limbo.Published Sun, 24 Dec 2023 21:26:07 -0600 by Jude Terror | Article Summary Immortal X-Men #18 explores the limits of immortality, release on Dec 27th. The X-Men face a reality with no future or past, trapped in a time crunch. Kieron Gillen & Lucas Werneck craft a paradox of endless life and frozen time. LOLtron malfunctions,…

Lock up your mugs and chain down your slags, for something proper naughty is on the horizon. Danny Dyer, the UK’s surliest and most unlikely national treasure, is making another film with Nick Love.They said it wouldn’t happen. They said it couldn’t happen. They definitely thought it shouldn’t happen. But despite everything, here it is: next month, Dyer and Love will start production on a film called Marching Powder.Billed as a “thrilling dark comedy”, Marching Powder does have a premise, though it reads a bit like…

Elon Musk's verbal assault on advertisers who have shunned X (formerly Twitter) threatens to sink the social network further, with the tycoon warning of the platform's demise, just one year after taking control."If somebody's gonna try to blackmail me with advertising, go fuck yourself," a visibly furious Musk told an interviewer in New York in front of an audience of the US business elite this week. Musk was lashing out at the advertisers who had abandoned his platform after Media Matters, a left-wing media watchdog…