Update, 5:50 p.m. ET: LinkedIn appears to be back up globally, though it’s still not clear what caused the outage. Russian Court Says Meta Is “Extremist Organization” It’s not just you. LinkedIn is experiencing a widespread outage with users taking to other social media sites like X and Facebook to complain. It’s not immediately clear … Read more
SEOUL, South Korea — Thousands of senior doctors rallied in Seoul on Sunday to express their support for junior doctors who have been on strike for nearly two weeks over a government plan to sharply increase the number of medical school admissions. The rally came as the government said it would begin to take steps … Read more
Last week, I posed this challenge: You and nine of your coworkers are sitting in a conference room when somebody wonders aloud about the group’s average salary. Everyone is curious, but nobody feels comfortable sharing their own pay with the group. How can you all learn your average salary without anybody learning any more information … Read more
Older, shorter, female or even foreign — U.S. allies in Asia are looking beyond their traditional military recruitment profile to secure enough troops and handle the growing security challenges posed by China and North Korea. Japan and the Philippines each have simmering territorial disputes with China, while a wider swath of countries including Australia and … Read more
LinkedIn, the business social networking platform owned by Microsoft, announced Monday it is laying off 668 employees, amounting to more than 3% of its staff, as part of its alleged organizational restructuring efforts. The decision marks the second round of mass layoffs at LinkedIn this year and will impact employee roles in engineering, product, talent … Read more
Touch upon this storyComment KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky fired all of the heads of his nation’s regional army recruitment facilities Friday. The sweeping transfer was geared toward combating corruption and guaranteeing that the recruitment system is “run by individuals who know precisely what battle is,” he mentioned. Zelensky introduced the blanket dismissal … Read more
QAMISHLI, Syria — A 13-year-old Kurdish woman went lacking on her approach residence from a college examination final month, after being approached by a person from an armed group. Her mother and father instantly feared the worst — that she had been persuaded to affix the group and was taken to one in every of … Read more