ZOOM: Video conferencing service Zoom is cutting about 1,300 jobs, or approximately 15 per cent of its workforce.

The organisation’s chief executive Eric Yuan said on Tuesday that the company recruited large numbers during the Covid-19 pandemic when businesses became increasingly reliant on its service. 

Mr Yuan said that Zoom grew three times in size within 24 months to manage demand.

SOMALIA: The United Nations called on Tuesday for an independent and impartial investigation into clashes in the separatist Somali region of Somaliland, which it said left “at least 20 dead and 119 injured.”

The UN toll is double that advanced on Monday by sources after clashes between armed militias loyal to the Somali government and forces of the self-proclaimed Republic of Somaliland, in Las Anod.

PAKISTAN: A speeding bus collided with a car and plunged into a ravine in north-west Pakistan on Tuesday, killing at least 22 passengers and injuring 12 others, the second such deadly accident in less than a week.

The bus was travelling to the garrison city of Rawalpindi from the Ghizer district in the north when the accident happened near Shatial village, 30 miles north of Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

BRAZIL: On Tuesday, Brazil’s Federal Police arrested four military police officers for dereliction of duty during the January 8 assault on the headquarters of the three branches of government in Brasilia.

Those arrested are: Colonel Jorge Eduardo Naime Barreto, Captain Josiel Pereira Cesar, Major General Flavio Silvestre de Alencar and Agent Rafael Pereira Martins.