Early bird: Visa is preparing a revolution in the use of payment cards. Fico is out of life threat.
Visa is planning changes to the way payment cards function so that people don't have to carry full wallets. Foreign agencies report an improvement in the condition of Robert Fico, who was the victim of an assassination attempt. A woman from Great Britain caused resistance to these medicines by regularly using antibiotics. Switzerland wants to host a major international summit that would facilitate peace in Ukraine.
Visa will enable to link payment cards together
A wallet less stuffed with cash could become a reality thanks to Visa. On Wednesday, Visa announced fundamental changes in how credit and debit cards in the US will operate in the coming months and years.
New features could mean that Americans will carry fewer physical cards in their wallets and the 16-digit credit or debit card number printed on each card will become less and less important. The biggest change for Americans will be the ability of banks to issue a single physical payment card that will be linked to multiple bank accounts, said AP agency.
Slovak Prime Minister Fico is out of life-threatening danger
The assassination attempt committed yesterday on the Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico is at the forefront of the focus of all major global media and news agencies. For instance, Reuters immediately reports among the most crucial world news that Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, who was shot on Wednesday as he was leaving a government meeting in an assassination attempt, is no longer in life-threatening danger, said one of the government ministers and deputy prime minister, Tomáš Taraba. The shooter, aiming at the 59-year-old Fico, fired five times, the Prime Minister was initially in a critical condition and underwent surgery on Wednesday evening.
Woman in the UK gained resistance to antibiotics by using them regularly
A woman who needs antibiotics almost every other month claims that her growing resistance to them causes "stress and suffering". Seventy-one-year-old Sian suffers from recurrent urinary tract infections (UTIs) since she was 18. She says it affects her everyday life, sometimes she has to cancel plans and stay at home. She tries to maintain health and treat herself with cranberry juice and vitamins, but often the need for medication is inevitable.
The inefficacy of antibiotics was described to her doctor and subsequently, she was involved in the research, although the growing antibiotic resistance is spreading among the global population, such a individual case is unique. Reported by BBC's website.
Switzerland wants a peace summit towards war in Ukraine
Delegations from more than 50 countries have gathered for the summit, which Switzerland hopes will lay the groundwork for a peace process in Ukraine, Swiss President Viola Amherd said on Wednesday.
The neutral Swiss government sought wide participation from different parts of the world and sent out 160 invitations, Amherd said at a press conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz after both met in Berlin.
Switzerland wants to convince more countries of the so-called global South and China to join. The communist regime controlling the world's most populous country is a key ally of Russia and could play a key role in putting pressure on Russia to end the fighting, the agency Reuters reported.
