#BREAKING Adelaide City Council has revoked the fossil fuel ad ban it passed two weeks ago, over fears for the Santos-sponsored Tour Down Under. "We should not make the decision first and find out the consequences afterwards," the deputy lord mayor said, afterwards.
#BREAKING Japan will start monitoring cross-border internet traffic under its new cyberdefence law next autumn. Ruling party lawmakers already say that is not enough and want domestic traffic too. The system has been found insufficient a year before it is switched on. #Japan
#BREAKING South Korea's justice minister nominee has apologised for not checking the law carefully when he cut an employee's pay by 40% in 2014 over mishandled paperwork. The legal cap was 10%. The paperwork error cost the employee 40%. The legal error cost him an apology.
#BREAKING Cricket Australia says it is comfortable with its 2018 sandpaper investigation, which never interviewed Usman Khawaja, who sat beside Bancroft all Test. CEO Todd Greenberg has not yet read Khawaja's new book either. The method remains consistent. https://t.co/HpKEtn92YI
Cricket Australia CEO Todd Greenberg says there’s ‘no reason’ to reopen the sandpaper investigation.
It follows Usman Khawaja’s call for the whole team to take responsibility for the 2018 scandal.
#BREAKING Peru bars mayors from immediate re-election, so dozens ran as first councillor on lists whose mayoral candidates then withdrew. The electoral board blocked them, and they protest that voters chose them as mayor. One judge says that is exactly the problem. #Peru
#BREAKING Take-Two's CEO says gas prices are way up, and that GTA 6 at $80 is a bargain because players can engage with it for an extraordinarily long time. Anyone who can no longer afford to drive anywhere has the time. #GTA6 https://t.co/J2fQeOch3c
#BREAKING South Africa's energy minister calls the Medupi and Kusile coal plants "a template on how not to do things" and promises the new nuclear build will learn from them. Eskom, which built both, will own and operate the reactors. The lessons stay in-house. #Eskom
#BREAKING Ghana's finance minister says claims that traders are struggling to sell are propaganda, since GDP shows trade growing. For proof that prices are falling, he says, ask market women. For proof that market women are selling, ask GDP. #Ghana https://t.co/Bv3YMq6DBp
Finance Minister, Dr Cassiel Ato Forson, has dismissed claims that traders are struggling to sell their goods due to weak consumer demand, describing them as propaganda not supported by economic data.
Speaking during an engagement at KNUST, he cited GDP growth figures as evidence of expansion in the trade sector .
#AtoForson #GhanaEconomy #TradeSector #KNUST #ConsumerDemand #GhanaNews #ChannelOneTV
METR estimates nearly 2x acceleration in Anthropic’s progress due to AI. That's a big deal: My previous median for Superhuman AI Researcher was ~2030, now it's 2027. I feel very worried that humanity might no longer be in control of our future within 3-12 months.
A 47-year-old man has been detained for damaging a government building with "construction machinery", police in China's Shaanxi province have said.
No one was injured in the incident, and no motive has been given.
#BREAKING In 1984, PT Usha missed an Olympic bronze by a hundredth of a second and accepted fourth. On Monday she came fifth for four seats on India's Olympic body and asked the IOC and Prime Minister Modi to step in. The stopwatch remains her most trusted official. #PTUsha