Sony plans more movies: Days Gone may hit the small screen

Sony is pleased with the performance of the game movies after Uncharted. Movie industry pulse publication Deadline reports that a Days Gone adaptation is in the works at Sony’s PlayStation Productions studio, with a rather unlikely name around the lead …

Russia blocks consensus on review of Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

Russia on Friday blocked the final joint statement on the review of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) at the conference that ended Friday in New York after four weeks of negotiations. That statement has failed to …

NATO warns of Russia’s increased Arctic presence as a challenge

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg warned Friday that Russia’s increased presence in the Arctic constitutes a “strategic challenge for the entire Alliance.” “Russia has established a new Arctic Command. It has opened hundreds of new, former Soviet-era Arctic military sites, …

Howard University (USA) evacuates its students for the second time in 48 hours due to bomb threats.

Howard University President Wayne Frederick announced Friday that the school has received two bomb threats in 48 hours and has ordered students to evacuate their dormitories. Frederick has labeled these bomb threats as “terrorism.” He also added that the latest …

Netherlands refugee center where infant died evacuated

Authorities in the Netherlands have evacuated the Ter Apel center for asylum seekers, on the border with Germany, in an attempt to relieve overcrowding at a facility where a baby died this week. Dutch authorities have confirmed the transfer of …

Petro announces for the first time an assembly of coca growers in Catatumbo, northern Colombia

Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced Friday that the country’s first assembly of coca growers will be held in the region to achieve dialogue and that Catatumbo will be the origin of Colombian peace, inviting illegal groups to dialogue. “I propose …

Ayotzinapa students’ families demand scientific proof of victims’ whereabouts

A thousand people have demonstrated again this Friday in the streets of Mexico to remember that the struggle will not give up until the whereabouts of the 43 normalist students of Ayotzinapa are known. Days after the report of the …

Jerome Powell says the Fed’s fight against inflation will be “a little painful,” after saying last year that high inflation is “probably temporary”

At the event, Jerome Powell emphasized the need for tight monetary policy, and his comment implied that the Fed would not slow monetary tightening until inflation was under control. Fed Chairman Jerome Powell says the U.S. central bank’s inflation policy …

Lawyers for young men murdered in Sucre (Colombia) denounce that the Prosecutor’s Office omitted information

Lawyers for the three young men killed in Sucre have claimed this Friday that the Colombian Prosecutor’s Office would have omitted many details that occurred during the murder. “The prosecutor did not fully describe the torture and the way in …

President of Central African Republic creates committee to draft new constitution

The president of the Central African Republic (CAR), Faustin Archange Touadéra, has signed this Friday a decree to create a committee in charge of drafting a new constitution for the country. The current Constitution prohibits the head of state from …

BTC nears $20,000, while ETH hits one-month low

Bitcoin was trading near $20,000 to start the weekend, with traders reacting to comments from U.S. Fed Chairman Jerome Powell at the Jackson Hole summit on Friday. Powell warned that “there will be pain ahead” as the Fed tries to …

Poland buys tanks and artillery from South Korea for nearly six billion dollars

Aug. 27 () – Poland has signed this Friday the purchase of almost 400 battle tanks and howitzers to South Korea, because of the growing tensions in the European continent against Russia. Seoul plans to deliver 180 K2 battle tanks …