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World
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International
5/28/2023 11:39:28 AM
Brazil’s government announced Friday that a U.N. Latin America regional group has endorsed a Brazilian city in the Amazon region to host the 2025 U.N. climate change conference, though the world body has not yet publicly confirmed the venue.
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Business
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Tech
5/22/2023 12:56:48 PM
Facebook owner Meta has been fined a record 1.2 billion euros ($1.3 billion) for transferring EU user data to the United States in breach of a previous court ruling, Ireland's regulator announced Monday.
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Life & Style
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Style
5/15/2023 5:08:13 PM
Advertising by Cartier with images of an Indigenous people devastated by illegal gold mining has some complaining of greenwashing, a corporation promoting its own image by supporting a cause.
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Arts & Culture
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Screens
5/11/2023 12:26:52 PM
From R-rated sci-fi to teen biker gang adventures, streaming platforms are locked in an intensifying battle for dominance in one of the entertainment sector's hottest and most lucrative mediums: anime.
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Arts & Culture
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Screens
4/29/2023 1:58:32 PM
Movie theater owners are confident that previously streaming-focused tech giants Apple and Amazon are now "committed" to putting their films on the big screen -- even if Netflix still declines to -- according to their trade body's new president.
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Business
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Tech
4/25/2023 9:46:10 PM
TikTok, Twitter, Facebook, Google, and Amazon are facing rising pressure from European authorities as London and Brussels advanced new rules Tuesday to curb the power of digital companies.
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Business
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Tech
1/24/2023 3:04:41 PM
Amazon is adding a prescription drug discount program to its growing health care business.
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Business
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Tech
1/23/2023 4:46:18 PM
In just the past month there have been nearly 50,000 job cuts across the technology sector.
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Business
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Tech
1/5/2023 3:21:08 PM
Amazon announced Wednesday it will cut more than 18,000 jobs from its workforce, citing "the uncertain economy" and the fact the online retail giant had "hired rapidly" during the pandemic.
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COP27
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To Know
11/17/2022 11:06:32 AM
French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday backed a proposal by Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to hold a 2025 United Nations climate conference in the Amazon rainforest.
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COP27
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Sharm El-Sheikh
11/16/2022 10:34:31 PM
Six weeks before taking power, Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Wednesday told cheering crowds at the UN climate conference that he would crack down on illegal deforestation in the Amazon, reinitiate relationships with countries that finance forest protection efforts and push to host an upcoming world climate summit in the rainforest.
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COP27
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To Know
11/16/2022 1:40:54 PM
Brazilian president-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said at UN COP27 climate talks in Egypt on Wednesday that he wants the 2025 summit to be held in the Amazon region as he vowed to fight deforestation.
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Business
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Markets & Companies
11/14/2022 8:39:26 PM
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has for the first time said he would give away most of his $124 billion fortune to charity, but warned that doing so effectively will be hard.
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COP27
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Sharm El-Sheikh
11/14/2022 9:50:15 AM
Brazilian president-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is expected this week at the UN climate summit in Egypt to pledge to reverse the environmental policies of his right-wing predecessor and protect the Amazon rainforest.
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COP27
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Climate change
11/11/2022 7:36:40 PM
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest broke the monthly record for October, with the destruction of 904 square kilometers (350 square miles), official figures showed Friday.
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COP27
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Climate change
11/10/2022 1:12:47 PM
Where the mother of all rivers meets the Atlantic Ocean in coastal Brazil, it's not a single channel, instead, it braids around 230 kilometres (142 miles) of islands including the Bailique Archipelago.
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Arts & Culture
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Entertainment
8/30/2022 8:45:51 PM
Ahram Online has highlighted a selection of do-not-miss cultural events for this week (31 August- 6 September) in Cairo and Alexandria.
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Arts & Culture
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Entertainment
8/16/2022 10:25:03 PM
It has been dubbed the most expensive show ever made, but producers of Amazon's "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power" described its $1 billion price tag as a "bargain" at a lavish world premiere in Los Angeles Monday.
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Business
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Tech
8/4/2022 6:31:06 PM
More than 700 Amazon warehouse workers in England staged a protest Thursday in a dispute over pay, in the latest sign of workplace friction stoked by Britain's cost of living crisis and a growing discontent among employees over wage and working conditions.
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Business
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Tech
7/19/2022 7:06:37 PM
Amazon has filed a lawsuit against administrators of more than 10,000 Facebook groups it accuses of coordinating fake reviews in exchange for money or free products.
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