Category: World

Environmental activists have blocked Amazon warehouses in Europe Warehouses of the world's largest e-commerce company Amazon in Europe on Black Friday are being blocked by climate activists, writes Reuters. According to the Extinction Rebellion group, such sales are a blow to the environment. “Black Friday embodies a culture of over-consumption, which is inappropriate if we want was fit for life, ”said activists who managed to block 13 of the company's warehouses in the UK, as well as in Germany and the Netherlands. They came up with the slogans “Black Friday exploits people and the planet” and “Growth is endless, the planet is not.”

CIAN: the average sale period for an apartment in the secondary market in Russia has decreased to 100 days said in the materials CIAN, available at the disposal of “Lenta.ru”. In large Russian cities, by the end of autumn 2021, it was 100 days, analysts calculated. According to their data, over the year, Russians began to sell housing 20 days faster, over the last month, the term was reduced by one day. “This dynamics is explained by the growth in demand over the past year and a half due to the availability of mortgage rates. The most attractive options for apartments are quickly leaving the market, “experts say. The shortest exposure period for secondary apartments is in Krasnoyarsk (70 days on average), Tyumen (71 days), Yekaterinburg (72 days), Krasnodar (74 days), Novosibirsk (78 days), Leningrad region, Moscow region, Omsk and Chelyabinsk (85 days each). Owners in Vladivostok (147 days), Volgograd

Pashinyan: the participants of the trilateral meeting have eliminated a number of discrepancies on some issues Azerbaijani leader Ilham Aliyev passed in a positive manner, the parties openly discussed pressing problems. Pashinyan stated this after the talks. According to the head of the Armenian government, the sides clarified their positions on many issues. “There are no discrepancies on some issues, as it seemed before this meeting,” Pashinyan said. In particular, this concerns the issue of unblocking transport and economic communications, the Prime Minister of Armenia added. In addition, at a meeting with Putin and Aliyev, Pashinyan said that it is necessary to create security mechanisms at the border to start work on delimitation and demarcation. “If on the basis of this meeting it is possible to create dynamics, then concrete results can be expected,” he concluded. Putin said that the parties had signed a joint trilateral statement. The negotiators discussed

Samsung smartphones have been susceptible to hacking due to MediaTek processors Check Point Research specialists spoke about the risk of hacking a number of Samsung smartphones. The corresponding report is available on the company's website. Experts have discovered a vulnerability in MediaTek chips, due to which an attacker can inject malicious code into the processor and compromise user data. In remote exploitation, a hacker can listen in on the victim's conversations. According to experts, the vulnerability is hidden in the AI ​​processing unit (APU) and digital signal processor (DSP) of the chip. According to Check Point Research, since the vulnerability is present in MediaTek processors, it could affect about 40 percent smartphones all over the world. The authors also named the gadgets that are most susceptible to hacking. Among them were smartphones Samsung Galaxy A31, Galaxy A41, Galaxy A03s, Galaxy A12, Galaxy A22, Galaxy A32, Galaxy M22 and the Galaxy

TV presenter Chrissy Teigen has rebuffed fan criticism for her eyebrow transplant American model and TV host Chrissy Teigen negative comments from fans that surfaced on social media following her eyebrow transplant surgery. Celebrities took notice of the Instagram story in Page Six. 35-year-old Teigen admitted that she underwent the transplant procedure. The woman explained that as a teenager, she regularly plucked her eyebrows, as a result of which they thinned and lost their shape. After the intervention, her new eyebrows became defined, dark and thick. Netizens criticized the act of the fashion model. The haters considered the story of the star's eyebrow transplant inappropriate given the fact that many people live on the brink of poverty. Teigen, in turn, fought back fans by posting a response story on Instagram (it has been deleted for now). The woman posted a screenshot of the news that appeared in the media and

SK: in Timashevsk, stepfather killed a 6-year-old stepson, holding his nose and mouth with his hands local resident suspected of killing 6-year-old stepson. On Friday, November 26, the regional department of the Investigative Committee of Russia reported to Lente.ru. According to the investigation, on the evening of November 24, the man was at home with his stepson and his one-year-old child. He pushed the boy, which made him cry. The child's tears angered his stepfather. As punishment, he covered his nose and mouth with his hands, after a while the boy lost consciousness. Seeing that he was not moving, his stepfather called an ambulance. The man told the doctors that the stepson stopped showing signs of life after falling down the stairs and hitting his head. The doctors failed to save the child. The data of the examination refuted the stepfather's version. Kuban investigators found out that the boy died

HSBC: Global sales growth despite the pandemic and supply disruptions are expected by 90% of companies The sales situation is expected to improve next year 90 percent of global companies are not afraid of supply disruptions and the possibility of new waves of a pandemic. This is evidenced by the HSBC Navigator study (available to Lenta.ru), in which 7,350 business leaders in 14 countries took part. The overwhelming majority of respondents (87 percent) considered expansion into new markets as a reason for optimistic forecasts. In relation to their companies, this factor was named as a key driver of growth by 46 percent of respondents. More than half (56 percent) of respondents believe that their revenues will grow by more than 10 percent, almost a third (31 percent) say they are growing more than 30 percent. Average growth estimates are at 19 percent. Seven out of ten participants in the study

Vladimir Putin presented the head of Azerbaijan and the Prime Minister of Armenia with olive branches For Armenia Nikol Pashinyan olive branches as a symbol of the settlement. RIA Novosti reports this. “To my left you see our gift from me to Armenian friends and Azerbaijani friends: an olive branch that symbolizes peace and prosperity,” Putin said and stressed that he hoped for the implementation of the agreements. which will help create conditions for the next steps in the normalization of relations in the South Caucasus. On Friday, November 26, a trilateral meeting of the President of Russia, the Prime Minister of Armenia and the leader of Azerbaijan took place. The negotiations lasted almost three hours. The parties discussed the situation in Karabakh, and also assessed what was done over the past year to stabilize it.

A new strain of COVID, found in several countries, was named potentially the most dangerous The EU named the timing of the spread of the new strain of coronavirus (B.1.1 .529) found in several countries. The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said in a video message that the strain could spread around the world in the next few months. She highlighted the seriousness of the European Commission to the news about Option B.1.1.529. The new COVID variant has already been named potentially the most dangerous in the world. Key information about the new strain First reports of infection with the new strain in South Africa, Botswana and Hong Kong appeared on November 24. Later, news of the discovery of another variant of the evolution of COVID-19 appeared in Israel and Belgium. The day after the first reports of a new variant of COVID in South Africa,