MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for April 28th 2018
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Saturday, April 28th 2018 - 11:17 UTC
MPs want to speak to Facebook's Zuckerberg following frustrating questioning of his chief technology officer
UK Members of Parliament have urged Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to speak to them after evidence given by his chief technology officer was deemed unsatisfactory. A parliamentary committee said Mr Schroepfer had failed to fully answer 40 points put to him as part of an inquiry into fake news.
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Saturday, April 28th 2018 - 11:10 UTC
US oil company wins arbitration and Venezuela's PDVSA must pay US$ 2.04bn
An international arbitration court has ordered Venezuela’s oil company PDVSA to pay ConocoPhillips US$ 2.04 billion for early dissolution of two joint ventures for producing oil in the OPEC-member country, the U.S. firm said.
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Saturday, April 28th 2018 - 10:22 UTC
Bees victory: EU votes for a near total ban on insecticides
European Union countries voted on Friday for a near-total ban on insecticides blamed for killing off bee populations, in what campaigners called a “beacon of hope” for the winged insects. Bees help pollinate 90 percent of the world’s major crops, but in recent years have been dying off from “colony collapse disorder,” a mysterious scourge blamed on mites, pesticides, virus, fungus, or a combination of these factors.
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Saturday, April 28th 2018 - 07:44 UTC
The model of Western democracy is broken: unemployment stats questioned
By Gwynne Dyer - If the model is broken, should you try to fix it, or scrap it and get a new one? In questions of technology, increasingly the answer is: scrap it. Computer repair shops are dying out: if your laptop doesn't work, just buy a new one. What applies to consumer technology, however, does not necessarily apply to politics.
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Saturday, April 28th 2018 - 07:30 UTC
Koreas leaders in historic summit agree to rid the peninsula of nuclear weapons
Friday's summit between the leaders of North and South Korea was a “historic meeting” paving the way for the start of a new era, North Korea's media say. North's Kim Jong-un and Moon Jae-in of South Korea agreed to work to rid the peninsula of nuclear weapons.
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Saturday, April 28th 2018 - 06:59 UTC
St Helena airport shrugs off ‘world’s most useless’ tag
Andreas Spaeth (*) The airport on the remote British Overseas Territory island St Helena, once dismissed as the “world’s most useless airport” by British media, is proving to be a reliable asset.
