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7 hours agoAustralia passes law to make Google, Facebook pay for newsAustralia's law forcing Google and Facebook to pay for news is ready to be implemented, though the law's architect says it will take time for the digital giants to strike...
14 hours agoItaly orders food delivery services to treat riders betterItaly is going after online food delivery companies for how they treat the cyclists who deliver the food, many of them immigrants.
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14 hours agoPutin warns of unnamed foreign efforts to destabilize RussiaPresident Vladimir Putin has ordered Russia's top counterintelligence agency to redouble its efforts to address what he described as Western attempts to destabilize the c...
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16 hours agoGhana 1st nation to receive coronavirus vaccines from COVAXGhana has received the world’s first delivery of coronavirus vaccines from the United Nations-backed COVAX initiative.
23 hours agoGerman court convicts radical imam of membership in IS A former imam at a radical mosque in Germany has been Wednesday of being a member of the Islamic State group and sentenced to 10 1/2 years in prison.
1 day agoChinese official calls for 'joint efforts' in China-US tradeChina’s commerce minister has appealed to Washington to help revive trade but gave no indication when tariff war talks might resume or whether Beijing might offer concess...
18 hours agoConviction in landmark case over Syrian government tortureA German court has convicted a former member of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s secret police of facilitating the torture of prisoners in a landmark ruling that human rig...
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1 day agoSouth African ex-president's corruption trial set for May Former South African president Jacob Zuma’s corruption trial is set to begin in May, more than 16 years after he was first implicated in the graft allegations.
1 day agoThousands of students rally in Greece against new police lawMore than 5,000 university students and other protesters have gathered outside a courthouse in Greece’s second-largest city to rally against a new campus security law.
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1 day agoMore policy, less pomp as Biden and Trudeau meet virtuallyPresident Joe Biden’s first bilateral meeting with Canada’s Justin Trudeau since taking office was high on policy, low on pomp and featured a very large swipe at Biden’s ...
1 day agoBLM in Italian Fashion campaign shows early tangible resultsA digital runway show by five Italian fashion designers of African origin is opening Milan Fashion Week on Wednesday.
1 day agoThe Latest: Tennessee probe finds wasted vaccinesHealth officials say that more than 2,400 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in Tennessee’s most populous county went to waste over the past month while local officials sat on te...
1 day agoBritons rush to book holidays amid plans to end lockdown Stir-crazy Britons rushed to book overseas vacations after Prime Minister Boris Johnson unveiled plans to slowly ease a national lockdown.
1 day agoGeorgian opposition leader arrested, protesters set up campDemonstrators have set up tents outside Georgia’s parliament building and blocked the capital’s main avenue to protest the arrest of the leader of the country’s main oppo...
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1 day agoIran officially imposes curbs on UN nuclear inspections Iran has officially started restricting international inspections of its nuclear facilities, a bid to pressure European countries and U.S. President Joe Biden’s administr...
1 day agoA year on, India's riot victims say justice still unservedMuslims who were injured, burned out of their homes and threatened during India’s worst communal riots in decades are still shaken and fear they may never see justice.