Video conference app, Zoom has notified its users in Nigeria it will start charging value-added tax, VAT, on its use. The information is coming in a few days after the social media giant Facebook, states it will charge 7.5% VAT on all Advertisements (Ads) done on its platform.
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UK: Lawyers Challenge Government’s Hotel Quarantine Policy
A London-based law firm has issued a court proceeding against the UK government’s quarantine hotel policy.
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A plumber who discovered stash of cash and checks inside a wall at celebrity televangelist Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church last month has been awarded $20,000 by Crime Stoppers of Houston.
Read More »NY: Pfizer May Settle Lawsuit Against Ex-Employee Accused Of Stealing COVID-19 Vaccine Secrets
It appears Pfizer Inc has reached a truce with a former long-time employee it sued two weeks ago for allegedly stealing confidential documents related to its COVID-19 vaccine and other drugs.
Read More »SWITZERLAND: Approves Painless Assisted Suicide Capsule
Switzerland’s medical review board has authorized the use of a coffin-shaped capsule, which promises relatively painless and peaceful death in under one minute as a new way to die by assisted suicide.
Read More »BARBADOS: Nation To Build Transatlantic Slavery Museum
On the heels of being a republic, Barbados is to build a transatlantic slavery museum in honour of thousands of their African ancestors who died during the slave trade.
Read More »ITALY: Football Fan Banned For Groping Journalist Bum On Live TV
A three-year sporting events ban has been handed by Italian police to a football fan seen on a now viral video smacking a female reporter’s bum on live TV.
Read More »AUSTRIA: Doctor Fined For Amputating Patient’s Wrong Leg
A surgeon in Austria who amputated an elderly patient’s wrong leg has been fined €2,700 for gross negligence.
Read More »GREECE: Unvaccinated Over-60s To be Fined €100 Monthly
From January 16 2022, residents in Greece over the age of 60 will be fined €100 a month if they remain unvaccinated against the coronavirus.
Read More »ZIMBABWE: President Mnangagwa Accuses UK Of ‘Brazen’ Interference In Nation’s Internal Affairs
Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa has accused the United Kingdom of interfering in his country’s internal affairs after London voiced concern over human rights violations and persecution of government critics in the southern African country.
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