Vishal Garg: 'Your employment here is terminated, effective immediately'
Vishal Garg, the boss of US mortage firm Better.com, fires about 900 of his staff on a single Zoom call.
Free and and fair trade is in the European Union’s DNA, but the EU will have to take measures if AstraZeneca does not deliver the agreed quantities of Covid-19 vaccinations, an Austrian MEP says. Export controls or even export bans should be considered if that does not work, Angelika Winzig told BBC World News. The…
The ongoing unrest in Myanmar is in danger of spiralling into an “all-out civil war”, a human rights group has warned. Hundreds of people, including children, have been killed since the military seized power in February. The coup triggered mass protests that have been met with a violent response from the authorities. “The military regime…
The first emergency international assistance aimed at helping stem India’s devastating coronavirus surge arrived in India on Tuesday. But while this was a positive move, solidarity among countries needs to be a continuous thing and not just in times of crisis, the World Health Organization’s Dr Margaret Harris told BBC World News. “It would be…
Houses have been buried by hot ash after a volcano erupted in Indonesia on Saturday. Mount Semeru on the island of Java engulfed villages, submerging vehicles and leaving glimpses of rooftops behind. Fourteen people are known to have died and dozens were injured, authorities said. Watch the BBC’s Valdya Baraputri, surrounded by buried buildings, describe…
Four Iranian intelligence officials have been charged with plotting to kidnap a New York-based journalist critical of Iran, US prosecutors have said. While the indictment did not name the target, Masih Alinejad, an Iranian-American author and activist, has said it was her. She told BBC World News about learning she was a target for kidnapping…
Israel is looking for a “sustainable peace” rather than a sticking plaster which becomes a “prescription for another Gaza war a month from now,” the senior adviser to the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said. Mark Regev told BBC World News: “We want to come out of this with a solution that will bring…