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  Multinational companies to hire 250,000 refugees   The number of refugees is increasing around the world. Many people are fleeing their countries because of bloodshed ; others because they are unsafe in their homeland. They all want to find a new life in a safe country. Multinational companies will help around 250,000 refugees. They will give them a job. The companies made this offer on World Refugee Day. Adidas, Amazon, Pepsi and Starbucks are some of the more than 40 corporations who will help displaced people over the next three years. Kelly Clements, the U.N. Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees, was happy about this news. She said: "The commitments that businesses are going to make are absolutely essential ." Kelly Clements said more than 110 million people have been displaced worldwide. Around 12 million of these are from Ukraine. More than 6.8 million have fled Syria and 5.7 million have left Afghanistan. Ms Kelly said: "Every number is a story of an i...

Watch : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGRcoQNQ5Ls As the epitome of instant photography, Polaroid has experienced both massive popularity in its heyday through a dramatic fall after as it dealt with the realities of the digital photography boom.   Polaroid as an American company started in 1937 when it was founded by  Edwin H. Land and George W. Wheelwright III  and first entered the market selling polarized sunglasses. Dubbed as “the Apple of its time” by some, the company began to produce the now well-known instant cameras — also likened to having the latest iPhone at the time — and reached its popularity peak in the 1970s when it controlled almost two-thirds of the instant camera market in the United States. During the Second World War, Polaroid’s main customer base was primarily the military, while the instant camera idea arose from Land’s personal experience with his daughter during a day out when she asked why it is not possible to instantly see the photo...