January 2020

Sainsbury’s to cut hundreds of management jobs

Image copyright Getty Images Sainsbury’s plans to cut hundreds of management roles as the supermarket chain integrates further with Argos. The supermarket will merge more teams across the business, including in commercial, retail, finance, digital, technology and human resources, it said. Sainsbury’s said the proposals were part of £500m cost savings plans that had previously

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Glenn Greenwald Charged With Cybercrimes in Brazil

RIO DE JANEIRO — Federal prosecutors in Brazil on Tuesday charged the American journalist Glenn Greenwald with cybercrimes for his role in the spreading of cellphone messages that have embarrassed prosecutors and tarnished the image of an anti-corruption task force. In a criminal complaint made public on Tuesday, prosecutors in the capital, Brasília, accused Mr.

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Democrats are livid about the proposed trial rules.

Democrats are livid about the proposed trial rules. The impeachment trial for President Trump will reconvene Tuesday afternoon with a raucous debate over proposed ground rules for the proceedings unveiled Monday night by Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader. Mr. McConnell’s proposal includes the following provisions: (1) House prosecutors and Mr. Trump’s defense

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Other countries join China in responding to new coronavirus

BEIJING — Countries in Asia and elsewhere are checking the body temperatures of arriving airline passengers and adopting precautionary quarantine procedures in response to a new coronavirus that has sickened nearly 300 people and killed six in China. India, Nigeria, Japan and the United States are some of the countries where airport screening procedures were

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Davos: Trump decries climate ‘prophets of doom’ with Thunberg in audience

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption“We must reject the perennial prophets of doom” – Trump US President Donald Trump has decried climate “prophets of doom” in a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, where sustainability is the main theme. He called for a rejection of “predictions of the apocalypse” and

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