Twitter staff await job news as mass lay-off deadline nears
Summary
- All Twitter staff will shortly receive an email telling them whether they have a job or not - it's due at 09:00 Pacific time (16:00 GMT)
- New owner Elon Musk is expected to reduce the platform's workforce of 8,000 by as much as half - some staff have already been locked out of laptops
- He says Twitter has had a massive drop in revenue because activists are pressuring advertisers - something he says is "extremely messed up"
- In London's headquarters, the blinds are down and staff have been told to work remotely while their futures are decided
- An earlier internal email said the cuts were designed to put Twitter on a "healthy path" - the platform struggles to make a profit
- A class action lawsuit has already been filed against the company over the mass job cuts and the amount of notice given
- Tesla and SpaceX owner Musk bought the social media platform in a $44bn (£39.3bn) deal last week after a protracted process
- He has already removed the entire board and is now the sole executive
It's a coin flip for everyone at this point - Twitter employee
Earlier we told you about Simon Balmain who works for Twitter out of the UK. He told us he believed he'd been laid off as he'd been logged out of his work systems.
He's just spoken on the BBC News channel and says he's still waiting to hear what will happen.
He said: "It's a coin flip for everyone at this point."
Asked what he thought of Elon Musk, Twitter's new owner, he said he tried not to judge people he didn't know personally.
But he added: "I don't know if that sort of experience, in sort of physical products like cars and spaceships, neccessarily translates to social media."
Go back to Africa’: outrage at MP’s racist outburst in French parliament
Sitting suspended after interjection by far-right MP while black member was speaking about migrants
Kim Willsher in Paris
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Grégoire de Fournas, a member of the far-right Rassemblement National (RN), or National Rally, is now threatened with temporary suspension from the house and a possible loss of pay. He said he was not referring to the MP but to migrants.
Somalia forces kill at least 100 al-Shabab members
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Defense Ministry spokesperson Abdullahi Ali Anod said the clashes happened on Thursday in the villages of Garas Magan and El Hareeri.
Somali Defense Minister Abdullahi Mohamed Noor said the areas surrounding El Hareeri have been seized by the government following the fighting.
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“Whoah!!” Oleksandr exclaims when smelling the small package of home-made salo (pork fat) his mother has sent him in the mail.
“This is the first time in eight months I’ve eaten my Mum’s salo,” he says, while also picking up some military equipment he has ordered.
Protest calls in Pakistan after ex-PM Imran Khan shot in shin
Nationwide demonstrations have been called after Friday prayers, a day after former prime minister sustained minor gunshot wound.
A day after a bullet wounded former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan while he was leading “a long march” to the capital, his party announced country-wide protests on Friday afternoon.
Khan, who is the chief of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, sustained minor injuries when he was shot while atop a vehicle in Wazirabad city in Punjab province. He was immediately taken to Lahore for treatment, where doctors operated on him late on Thursday. He is in a stable condition.
South Korea scrambles fighter jets after detecting 180 North Korean warplanes, military says
South Korea scrambled about 80 fighter jets after detecting a large number of North Korean warplanes during a four-hour period Friday, the country’s military said, in a further escalation of regional tensions.
In a statement, the South Korean military said it spotted about 180 North Korean military aircraft between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. local time, a day after Pyongyang is believed to have conducted the failed test of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).
Tensions in the Korean Peninsula began rising Monday, when the “Vigilant Storm” joint military drills began between the United States and South Korea, involving hundreds of aircraft and thousands of service members from both countries, according to the US.
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