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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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Fifa’s sale of the century: how Kushners and Trump are at centre of a tangled web nemzetkozi-gazdasag

Fifa’s sale of the century: how Kushners and Trump are at centre of a tangled web

Joshua Kushner is now the kingpin in driving the sale of the World Cup to investors and family ties are tight around the project It isn’t just football fans and Uefa executives who want to give Gianni Infantino the red card for his plan to sell off 20% of the World Cup to a privately backed commercial enterprise. The Fifa president is also in the crosshairs of the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee in Washington and ranking Democrat member Jamie Raskin. The reason? Infantino’s plan, which is backed by Joshua Kushner’s investment fund, has, for some observers, president Trump’s sticky fingers all over it. Raskin told Politico that Fifa was “going directly into business with the Trump family”, before making reference to the peace prize Infantino awarded the president in December and Fifa’s use of office space in Trump Tower, New York. “Apparently the fake Peace Prize and giant lease with Trump Tower weren’t enough – now Infantino performs a kickback hat-trick by pursuing a multibillion-dollar deal with Jared Kushner’s brother to sell ownership stakes in the World Cup to private investors.” Continue reading…

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Lesújtó helyzetben a orosz ipar motorja: hosszú hónapokra is leállhatnak a legfontosabb üzemek egyetlen találat után nemzetkozi-gazdasag

Lesújtó helyzetben a orosz ipar motorja: hosszú hónapokra is leállhatnak a legfontosabb üzemek egyetlen találat után

Az ukrán, nagy hatótávolságú dróncsapások az elmúlt hónapokban tartós és súlyos károkat okoztak az orosz olajfinomítókban, ami a Szovjetunió felbomlása óta nem látott üzemanyag-válságot idézett elő Oroszországban. A célzott támadások a finomítási kapacitás jelentős részét kiiktatták, mivel az ukrán erők immár kifejezetten a legnehezebben pótolható, kritikus infrastrukturális elemek megsemmisítésére összpontosítanak - számolt be a Fiancial Times.

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The profit motive has strangled sports. Now Fifa is putting soccer up for sale | Dave Schilling nemzetkozi-gazdasag

The profit motive has strangled sports. Now Fifa is putting soccer up for sale | Dave Schilling

Gianni Infantino’s plan for a Fifa subsidiary is odious – but it’s hard to feel surprised Just when you thought global soccer couldn’t get more odiously capitalistic, Gianni Infantino said: “Hold my beer” (as long as that beer you’re holding is a Michelob Ultra, one of the official sponsors of the 2026 World Cup). The World Cup, one of the largest and most prestigious sporting competitions on the planet, is for sale. Infantino, the president of the soccer governing body Fifa, is the architect of a plan to sell up to 20% of a new subsidiary that would administer tournaments such as the World Cup and Club World Cup. The subsidiary, which would oversee Fifa’s commercial activities, would be called “Fifa Forward Enterprises”. If I see the word “forward” in a corporate initiative, I assume it’s either a diversity program that’ll get dropped after a couple years, a training video on how to exit a building during an emergency evacuation, or a blatant cash grab. Take a guess which one I think this is. Continue reading…

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Only the Middle East crisis is preventing a drop in UK interest rates nemzetkozi-gazdasag

Only the Middle East crisis is preventing a drop in UK interest rates

Bank’s wariness about inflationary pressures from the conflict lie behind decision to hold steady at 3.75% Business live – latest updates There is a threat of high inflation coming to the UK but only from the conflict in the Middle East, which could keep oil prices high for much longer than was expected when Donald Trump first began attacking Iran. It is the war that makes the difference between a benign outlook for inflation and one that puts it back on a rising trajectory, senior UK central bankers believe. Continue reading…

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Families to be moved out of billionaire-owned tower after suffering without air con nemzetkozi-gazdasag

Families to be moved out of billionaire-owned tower after suffering without air con

Several councils to stop housing tenants in glass-fronted Britannia Point in London, where tenants were earlier told they could not use air con As the fourth heatwave of the year hit the UK on Wednesday, Benice Bodah and her three teenage sons braced for more scorching temperatures inside their south-west London home. The two-bedroom flat has a built-in air-conditioning unit, but it has worked only intermittently in the almost three years since the family were placed in temporary accommodation at Britannia Point in Colliers Wood. “It has not been easy, but what can we do?” said Bodah, 48. Several councils have now agreed to stop housing families in emergency accommodation in the glass-fronted block after the Guardian revealed they had been told they couldn’t use the air-conditioning during heatwaves as it had “not been offered as an amenity” for them. The 19-storey building is owned by Criterion Capital, set up by the billionaire property magnate Asif Aziz. The temporary tenancies can last from weeks to years and are managed separately by letting agencies, including the London-based Aura Assets Management. Continue reading…

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A ‘Credibility Shock’ Looms Over the Fed nemzetkozi-gazdasag

A ‘Credibility Shock’ Looms Over the Fed

Bonds sold off sharply after the Federal Reserve’s latest rate decision, signaling growing turmoil between the markets and the central bank.

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