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Meta fined $567m in largest child safety ruling against social media giant
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Meta fined $567m in largest child safety ruling against social media giant

A New Mexico judge ordered the Instagram, Facebook and Whatsapp parent company to pay another $567m for the way it has harmed children.

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UK house prices up just 0.1% in July as buyers remain cautious on interest rates nemzetkozi-gazdasag

UK house prices up just 0.1% in July as buyers remain cautious on interest rates

Price of average home now £277,542, up from £277,484 the previous month but lower than in May, says Nationwide Business live – latest updates Economic uncertainty dampened UK house price growth in July as prospective buyers remained cautious about interest rates during the Iran war in what should be the peak housebuying season. House prices rose by only 0.1% in July from a month earlier, according to the lender Nationwide, while annual price growth slowed to 1.8% this month, down from 2.2% in June. Continue reading…

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Orosz rakéta törte át a NATO határát, miközben F-16-osok védték a légteret - Ez mégis hogy történhetett meg? nemzetkozi-gazdasag

Orosz rakéta törte át a NATO határát, miközben F-16-osok védték a légteret - Ez mégis hogy történhetett meg?

Lengyelország nyilvánosságra hozta, miért nem tudta lelőni azt az orosz H–101-es cirkálórakétát, amely mintegy 100 kilométert repült az ország légterében, mielőtt a lublini térségben becsapódott. A vizsgálat megállapítása szerint a jogszabályi előírások által megkövetelt vizuális célazonosítás jelentette a fő akadályt.

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HSBC to close all branches and pull out of Australian retail banking market nemzetkozi-gazdasag

HSBC to close all branches and pull out of Australian retail banking market

London-based company to sell local loan portfolio to Blackstone but will continue private and institutional banking services Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The London-headquartered HSBC is closing all Australian branches over the next 18 months after selling its local mortgage and personal loan portfolio to the global asset giant Blackstone. The transaction will end HSBC’s decades-long retail presence in Australia, although it will continue to operate private and institutional banking services, the company announced on Friday. Continue reading…

Business | The Guardian
Think our basic rights are safe? In the age of oligarchs and corporate lobbying, think again | George Monbiot nemzetkozi-gazdasag

Think our basic rights are safe? In the age of oligarchs and corporate lobbying, think again | George Monbiot

The global assault on our freedoms is coming ever closer to home. Just look at the sinister prosecution of UK lawyer Rajiv Menon No more resistance in the US. The era of human rights is over, and dissent is once more forbidden. This is what certain billionaires and their concierges want, and this is the model they’re also seeking to project across the world. If we fail to resist, if our new prime minister is as weak and suggestible as the last one, this is what we will get. In fact, we are halfway there already. Why? Because successive governments in the UK have succumbed to a global campaign to cancel our fundamental freedoms, a campaign led by oligarchs and corporations, the media they own and the junktanks they fund. A campaign that has become definitional for the second Trump presidency. Continue reading…

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