Author: Steven Sahiounie

Disney said in a statement that the tentative deal also included “industry-leading” benefits in health insurance coverage and tuition reimbursement. ORLANDO, Fla. — Unions for service workers at Walt Disney World reached a tentative deal with the company on Thursday that would raise the starting minimum wage from $15 to $18 an hour by the end of the year in a pact that could set the basement for starting pay throughout central Florida’s sprawling tourism industry. Disney World service workers who are in the six unions that make up the Service Trades Council Union coalition planned to vote next Wednesday…

Cryptocurrency exchange Yellow Card has grown to be the largest centralized exchange in Africa since its launch in 2019, with $1.75 billion in transactions facilitated so far. Chris Maurice and Justin Poiroux are the co-founders of Yellow Card, who launched the platform from their dorm room in Auburn, Alabama, in 2019. Yellow Card offers an experience similar to Block’s Cash App, allowing users to buy cryptocurrencies using fiat currencies, which they can then send across a border. However, in contrast to centralized exchanges like Coinbase, where many customers store their tokens for an extended period of time hoping that their…

Ukraine will begin talks to enter the bloc by June, a move beneficial to the US, Aleksandar Vucic has claimed With a battlefield victory “impossible,” Ukraine will begin negotiations to enter the EU this summer, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic told a local media outlet on Sunday. Ukraine will join a group of EU countries under the “direct influence” of the US, he stated. “Ukraine will not easily win in the military sense, it is almost impossible,” Vucic told Serbian broadcaster RTV Pink. Faced with this realization, he continued, “decisions will be made” in Brussels and Kiev around June “about the immediate start of negotiations and [Ukraine’s] entry into…

Just 13 nations still officially recognize the island, though many more including the US engage with its government Honduras has ended diplomatic relations with Taiwan after decades of engagement with the contested island territory, the country’s Foreign Ministry announced on Sunday. The move comes less than two weeks after President Xiomara Castro revealed that Tegucigalpa would establish relations with Beijing. “The government of Honduras recognizes the existence of just one China in the world, and the government of the People’s Republic of China is the only legitimate government that represents all of China,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement on…

The Republican frontrunner also says the “deep state” stepped up its attacks against him when he promised to end the conflict in Ukraine Former President Donald Trump told his supporters on Saturday that President Joe Biden is turning the US into a “banana republic,” and promised to throw the “repulsive political class the hell out of office” if re-elected next year. Trump, who is reportedly facing arrest over campaign finance charges in New York, held his first campaign rally ahead of the 2024 election in Waco, Texas, on Saturday. Speaking to a crowd of several thousand people, Trump reiterated his long-held belief that the charges against…

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday that at Belarus’ request Russia will deploy its tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, like the United States has long been doing on the territories of its allied countries The French foreign ministry has called on Russia to revise its agreement with Belarus on the deployment of nuclear weapons as having a destabilizing character. “France attaches great significance to the commitment to the January 3, 2022 statement on the inadmissibility of a nuclear war and an arms race, which was approved by both [Russian President] Vladimir Putin and all the heads of state and…

Three people wounded, three apartment blocks and four household structures damaged The blast in the city of Kireyevsk in the Tula region was caused by an unmanned aerial vehicle, a spokesman for the local law enforcement agencies told TASS on Sunday. “The blast in the Tula region was caused by a tactical reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle,” he said. “The explosion in the city of Kireyevsk in the Tula region was caused by a Ukrainian Tu-141 Strizh unmanned aerial vehicle. The drone was stuffed with explosive substances,” the spokesman specified. According to the local emergencies call center, the blast occurred at…

The GCC calls on the US to assume its responsibilities in responding to all measures and statements that target the Palestinian people. The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) announced on Sunday that it had written to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken condemning controversial comments made by Israeli occupation Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, in which he denied the existence of the Palestinian people. In a letter to Blinken, the GCC called on Washington “to assume its responsibilities in responding to all measures and statements that target the Palestinian people.” The letter from the six-member GCC’s foreign ministers also called on the…

The price of Bitcoin (BTC) has been on the rise recently, rallying 3% from its recent bottom. As a result, many investors are wondering how high BTC can go in the current market.  In this article, we will explore the latest Bitcoin price prediction and analyze the factors that could potentially influence its value in the near future. However, the upward rally in BTC has been fueled by various factors, such as ongoing developments in the cryptocurrency sector and Bitcoin’s reputation as a safe-haven asset. It is worth noting that recent bank failures have caused people to lose confidence in traditional banks,…

Two weeks ago few people outside the tech industry had even heard of Silicon Valley Bank, the midsize California lender whose rapid implosion would end up shaking the foundations of the entire global financial system. But then, on the morning of Friday, March 10, after clients withdrew $42 billion in the span of a single day, state and federal regulators swooped in to try to salvage what remained of SVB. In the head-spinning hours that followed Silicon Valley Bank became a global household name, though hardly in a manner its founders would have hoped for: It was officially the second-largest bank failure…