WASHINGTON: America should prepare for a “surge upon a surge” in coronavirus cases as millions of travellers return home after the Thanksgiving holiday, top US scientist Anthony Fauci warned yesterday. The United States is the worst-affected country, with 266,074 Covid-19 deaths, and President Donald Trump’s administration has issued conflicting messages […]
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WASHINGTON: The Trump administration is poised to add China’s top chipmaker SMIC and national offshore oil and gas producer CNOOC to a blacklist of alleged Chinese military companies, according to a document and sources, curbing their access to US investors and escalating tensions with Beijing weeks before President-elect Joe Biden […]
WASHINGTON: President-elect Joe Biden yesterday tapped key campaign staff and advisors to lead his all-woman communications team, naming former Obama State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki as his White House press secretary and campaign spokeswoman Kate Bedingfield as communications director. Senior advisor to the Biden-Harris campaign Symone Sanders will be Vice […]
WASHINGTON: The US state of Pennsylvania’s supreme court dismissed another legal challenge to the election by supporters of President Donald Trump yesterday, further reducing his already near-impossible odds of overturning the results. A Republican lawsuit had sought to invalidate mail-in ballots in the battleground state that President-elect Joe Biden won […]
JAKARTA: Indonesia reported its record daily rise in coronavirus infections today with 6,267 cases, bringing the total to 534,266, data from the country’s Covid-19 task force showed. This was the third record high in a week for the Southeast Asian country. The data showed 169 new coronavirus deaths, taking the […]
Facebook’s human moderators have focused on election and Covid-19 misinformation this year, so the company has leaned more on artificial intelligence algorithms to monitor other areas of the platform. New York-based businesswoman Ruth Harrigan usually sells her honey and beeswax products in souvenir shops. But with Covid-19 pausing tourism, she’s […]
Officials said online platforms bring huge benefits for businesses and society, but there is growing consensus in the UK and abroad that the concentration of power within a small number of tech companies is curtailing growth in the tech sector, reducing innovation, and potentially having negative impacts on the people […]
MUMBAI: India will allow app-based taxi aggregators such as Uber Technologies and Ola to charge up to 20 per cent commission on ride fares, according to guidelines issued on Friday (Nov 27) , diluting an earlier proposal to cap fees at 10 per cent. Industry experts had warned that a […]
BEIJING: US electric car maker Tesla is recalling 870 vehicles in China over defective roofs, part of which could fall off, China’s market regulator said on Friday (Nov 27). The announcement comes just a month after another recall of almost 30,000 cars imported into China – the world’s biggest auto […]
The Ministry of Commerce imposed import taxes of up to 212.1%, effective Saturday, which Australia’s trade minister said make Australian wine unsellable in China, his country’s biggest export market. China on Friday added wine to the growing list of Australian goods barred from its markets in a trade war against […]