US general suspended over snarky tweet

A retired three-star army general lost his ‘senior mentor’ job for apparently mocking US First Lady Jill Biden The US Army’s former top spokesman, Lt. Gen. Gary Volesky, has been relieved of his duties as an adviser to active-duty officers amid a probe into his controversial response to Jill Biden’s claim that the rights of…

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Richard Branson’s rocket firm files for bankruptcy

Virgin Orbit was unable to secure the funding it needed to recover from the failure of its last mission Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit Holdings, a California-based satellite launch company and a subsidiary of his Virgin Group, announced on Tuesday that it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the US.

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WTO warns of ‘polycrisis’

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala says the world is facing a food and fuel crisis and export controls are making it worse Export restrictions are pushing up food prices and could further exacerbate the global “polycrisis,” World Trade Organization (WTO) Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said at the opening of the 12th WTO ministerial conference in Geneva on Sunday.

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