Investigators also searched 2 premises — one in Rotterdam and another in a nearby village. Berlin, Germany: Germany and Belgium have seized 23 tonnes of cocaine in a record haul of the drug in Europe, German customs said Wednesday. “The enormous amount of cocaine would have brought in several billion euros (dollars) in street sales,” […]
NEW DELHI: Chafing from a dispute with Twitter, India plans to oblige social media companies to erase contentious content fast and assist investigations, according to a draft regulation. New Delhi’s planned “Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code” – a copy of which was seen by Reuters – come as various nations around the world […]
ONE OF TRAE YOUNG‘S favorite moves is simple. He gets the ball, calls for a screen and turns the corner, putting his defender on his hip as the help comes over to corral the drive. Once he feels his defender behind, he brake-checks, pulling up into a quick shot. A little old thing called Newton’s […]
Klarna co-founder and CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski speaks on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin 2019 on December 11, 2019. Noam Galai | Getty Images LONDON — The boss of European fintech giant Klarna says he’s “deeply worried” about posts promoting bitcoin on Twitter and thinks regulators should act to protect people from potential losses. Sebastian Siemiatkowski […]
Sir Ed Davey has called for Team GB to boycott next year’s Winter Olympics in Beijing over the treatment of Uighur Muslims in China’s Xinjiang region. The Lib Dem leader said it was a “genocide happening in front of our eyes”. Boris Johnson said it was a “longstanding position” of the UK government to “not […]
Most of the world maps you’ve seen in your life are past their prime. The Mercator was devised by a Flemish cartographer in 1569. The Winkel Tripel, the map style favored by National Geographic, dates to 1921. And the Dymaxion map, hyped by the architect Buckminster Fuller, debuted in a 1943 issue of Life. Enter […]
Liaqat Ali, the former public face of the militant Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan escaped last year three years after he handed himself in to the military. Source link
Top executives at The New York Times said in a note to the staff on Wednesday that they were committed to bringing about fundamental changes to the company’s workplace culture in an effort to make the newsroom and other Times divisions more diverse and inclusive. The note, from the publisher A. G. Sulzberger, the chief […]
Samsung has announced that the company topped the global TV market for the 15th consecutive year. Citing the latest data from market research firm, Omdia, the South Korean tech giant says that its global TV market share by revenue in Q4 2020 (October to December) stood at 31.8 percent while the company retained the largest […]
Back in 2005, DaMarcus Beasley didn’t think of himself as a trailblazer. He wasn’t thinking about being the first American to play in the semifinals of the UEFA Champions League, or how doing so might eventually pave the way for future U.S. players. He was just a 22-year-old midfielder trying to make his way through […]