Small rivals of Alphabet Inc’s GOOGL.O Google say signs are emerging of more benevolent behavior from the online advertising leader. It is because of accusations by the U.S. government and states that the company uses its dominance to thwart competition. Among the dozens of software companies who rely on Google as an intermediary to ad […]
BEIJING: A Chinese journalist Yang Jingzhong whose home was raided as part of an Australian anti-interference investigation in June said the action was unfounded and “baseless”, in a detailed account released by Chinese media late on Tuesday. China announced earlier this month that four journalists were subject to raids by Australian intelligence and police as […]
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday directed that no legal means should be spared to bring former prime minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif back from the United Kingdom. This important decision was taken in a meeting of the federal cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Imran Khan here. It has been decided to write a fresh […]
The global death toll from COVID-19 has crossed one million, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. The World Health Organization (WHO) says that number is probably an underestimate and the actual toll is likely to be much higher. Some 1,000,555 people across the world have now died from the virus, data from JHU showed […]
The incident comes as a chilling reminder of the 2012 Delhi Gang Rape case. In this incident a 23-year-old female medical student was severely assaulted and gang-raped by five men and a juvenile inside a moving bus in South Delhi. A woman passenger was allegedly gang-raped inside a running bus for the entire night on […]
Attacks against small towns, big cities, and the contractors who run their voting systems. Federal officials are fearing that hackers will try to sow chaos around the election. Many of the attacks are conducted by Russian criminal groups, some with shady ties to President Vladimir V. Putin’s intelligence services. But the attack on Tyler Technologies, […]
Violence flares up in Nagorno-Karabakh, with militaries from both sides accusing each other for the major escalation. Armenia has declared martial law. Armeniaordered its military to mobilise after a major flare-up in violence with Azerbaijan over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. Heavy fighting between the two arch-foes broke out on Sunday. They blamed each other for […]
Residents of Lake Jackson, Texas, have been warned about using tap water after a deadly brain-eating microbe was found in the city’s public water supply. Tests confirmed the presence of Naegleria fowleri in the system. The amoeba can cause an infection of the brain, which is usually fatal. Infections are rare in the US, with […]
A man suspected of injuring two people with a meat cleaver in Paris. He has admitted to deliberately targeting the former offices of the satirical Charlie Hebdo magazine. The suspect reportedly linked his actions to the magazine’s recent republication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Charlie Hebdo did this as a trial over the 2015 […]
Ukraine: At least 22 people including military cadets were killed and two others were seriously injured on Friday when a Ukrainian air force plane crashed near Kharkiv in the east of the country, the interior ministry said. Deputy Interior Minister Anton Gerashchenko confirmed the death toll to the local TV channel, describing the incident as […]
