Billionaire Elon Musk missed out on a mammoth $55.8 billion pay deal at his electric vehicle company, Tesla, after Delaware judge Kathaleen McCormick on Monday stood by her January decision to cancel the compensation package, qualifying it at excessive and unjust to Tesla investors despite a favorable June shareholder votes. Source link
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and visiting German Chancellor Olaf Scholz continued to differ over the questions of long-range German missile deliveries and Ukraine’s potential membership of NATO. Despite the United States lifting restrictions on Kyiv’s use of long-range American ATACMS missiles, and similar authorization given by the United Kingdom and France regarding the deployment of … Read more
German discus thrower Ilke Wyludda has passed away in the eastern German city of Halle, President of the Saxony-Anhalt State Sports Association Silke Renk announced Monday. Wyludda was 55 years old. ‘The whole German throwing community is in mourning’ “The news is terribly hard and leaves me stunned. Ilke struggled with health problems straight after … Read more
Guinea has announced three days of national mourning starting Tuesday. On Monday, many in the country felt shock, confusion, sadness and anger after the deaths the evening before of at least 56 people in a stamped at a football match. The crush happened in the town of Nzérékoré during the final of a tournament played … Read more
The president of the International Criminal Court launched out Monday against attacks on the court, which finds itself under the spotlight after issuing arrest warrants over wars in Gaza and Ukraine. The ICC faced criticism in some quarters after judges issued an arrest warrant last month for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his former defense … Read more
In a landmark ruling, Belgium’s court of appeals on Monday said that five women, born in Belgian-ruled Congo and now in their 70s, had been victims of “systematic abduction” by the state when they were abducted from their mothers as small children and brought up in Catholic institutions because of their mixed-race origins. Source link
Romania’s constitutional court on Monday certified the shock first-round results of the presidential election, confirming the lead of pro-Russia nationalist Calin Georgescu, who will face liberal leader Elena Lasconi in the run-off on Sunday. Source link
markets Brightcom Group Results: The company’s board has approved the appointment of 2 new independent directors – PV Subba Rao and Deepika Dalia. While releasing the earnings data, Brightcom Group did not share any timeline regarding the cancellation of trading suspension of shares. Source link
Chad’s surprising announcement that it is ending military cooperation with France — the last Sahel country to host French troops — comes just a day after Senegal’s President Bassirou Diomaye Faye declared that France should close its military bases in their country. As Chad and Senegal stun France with an abrupt “adieu”, FRANCE 24’s Jean-Emile … Read more
Georgian police fired tear gas to disperse thousands of pro-EU demonstrators on Monday, who had rallied in the center of Tbilisi amid a deepening political crisis in the Black Sea nation. FRANCE 24’s Selina Sykes reports. We speak to Tina Dolbaya from the Center for Strategic and International Studies. She says that Georgians are more … Read more