By CCN: When you’ve got a target on your back, the best strategy is to give your enemy more arrows. At least, that’s what Google seems to think. Just days after the government launched its antitrust crackdown against the tech titans, Google decided to put more blood in the water. It announced that it is buying fast-growing cloud data analytics company Looker for $2.6 billion. In December, Looker... 

Germany’s biggest lender, Deutsche Bank, has basically stolen 20 tons of gold belonging to Venezuela as collateral after Caracas defaulted on a gold swap agreement valued at US$750 million. The seizure comes as part of a deal clinched between the Bolivarian Republic and the lender as early as 2016, Bloomberg reports. Under the terms of the agreement, Venezuela received a cash loan from Deutsche... 

General Motors (GM) executives announced this week that two of their vehicles will be produced in South Korea as American workers in Lordstown, Ohio are left jobless after their GM plant closure and other Americans’ jobs at the corporation hang in the balance. At the end of last year, GM CEO Mary Barra announced that the corporation would soon lay off 14,700 workers in the United States and Canada.... 

The removal of India from a preferential trade deal which allowed for $5.6bn in duty-free imports, is inevitable, American officials have stressed, claiming, however, that the US wants nothing but good relations with its partner. Calling India a “high tariff nation” and repeatedly accusing the South Asian country of failing to provide the US with unlimited access to its markets, Washington announced... 

Holy mother of Jesus!!! Trump is finally doing something against the Mexican invasion… Unbelievable! This is shocking, we all gave up hope that this man will ever do anything yet when all hope was lost, he finally did it. Mexico might actually do something about the invasion now even though its only a tiny 5% tariff which might not be enough, its a start. He might need to apply more sanctions.... 

Wow, just wow! How aren’t the Democrats ashamed of themselves? They approve to fund a wall in Jordan yet they refuse to fund a wall in their own country? This must be the height of all immoralities. Make sure you share this story around. Most Americans probably don’t even know about this and if they knew, they would rightfully be pissed off. Trump needs to step up and do something about... 

Los Angeles is on the verge of a significant disease outbreak in the coming months, according to prominent physician and media personality Dr. Drew Pinsky. Pinsky issued the ominous warning during an appearance on the The Brian Kilmeade Show, citing the city’s stunning homeless crisis, growing rodent and insect infestation, and deplorable sanitation conditions. “I live in the great state of California,... 

Germany spent a record 23 billion euros last year on helping to integrate more than one million refugees and fighting the root causes of migration abroad, Reuters reports. That marks an increase of nearly 11 percent on the 20.8 billion euros that Germany spent in the previous year, a document prepared by the Finance Ministry shows. Merkel has repeatedly defended her 2015 decision to leave German borders... 

Only the US – not Germany or the EU – is interested in economic sanctions against Russia, the head of the Bundestag’s economy and energy committee has said. German MPs are looking at ways to lift the restrictions, he added. Bundestag energy and economy chief Klaus Ernst of Die Linke party accused the US of behaving as if Germany is its colony, as Washington tries to bully Europeans out of buying... 

Online gambling is a growing business. The number of gamblers is skyrocketing thanks to the availability of reliable online casinos like 13 wins. Clearly, it is an industry that is growing and will continue to receive a lot of love from the enthusiastic gamblers. This can be attributed to the fact that it comes with so much convenience, the players get access to tons of games and also there is the... 

The UK’s regulator for nursing, the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), has confirmed that the number of nurses from outside Europe registering for the first time to work in Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) has surged by 126 percent in a year as the numbers of white EU medical staff continued to decline in the face of Brexit. The NMC said that between March 2017 and March 2018, 2,724 nationals... 

Only 742—or 0.09 percent—of the more than 780,000 Syrians who officially claimed “asylum” in Germany since 2015 have taken up the German government’s offer of a subsidized return to their homeland now that the war there is formally over—and over 76 percent are still on welfare more than four years after invading Germany. According to official figures released by the Federal government... 

Aliexpress has become one of the largest online shops in the world competing with the likes of Ebay and Amazon. On all platforms there are scammers but nowhere like on Aliexpress. After all its a Chinese-only platform and the Chinese people just love to scam Westerners one way or another. The following scams are common on ebay Chinese sellers too but this is more common on Aliexpress since on Aliexpress... 

At least one polling station in the South African province of Kwa-Zulu Natal had to conduct its business by candelight after the power supply failed, leaving voters and officials struggling in the darkness to complete the voting procedures, while outside voters expressed fears of “being attacked.” A report in South Africa’s IOL news service titled “We are shocked to find vote counting will... 

Not very long ago, it was a sin, a moral crime to admit to having gambled online. It was one thing to frequent a land based establishment as people had the option to assume you went to see a show, perhaps you went to one of the live events but never, oh no never would you stoop to the addiction of gambling. Then one day, some average Joe discovered online gambling and hit a few million in winnings....