KENOSHA: Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden put himself squarely in the middle of ongoing national tumult over racial injustice and police brutality yesterday, meeting with residents of strife-torn Kenosha, Wisconsin, and speaking by phone with the Black man shot there by police. Biden’s trip to Kenosha, the site of sometimes […]
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LONDON: Virgin Atlantic is preparing to cut more than 1,000 jobs after seeing a slower-than-expected recovery in international demand for air travel, Sky News reported on Thursday (Sep 3). The report comes as the company’s £1.2 billion (US$1.59 billion) rescue deal is set for completion this week after a London […]
BERLIN: German prosecutors have dropped their investigation into journalists of the Financial Times in connection with its reporting on the corporate fraud at payments firm Wirecard that eventually led to its collapse. The Munich public prosecutors office said it has discontinued the proceedings as it has not found enough evidence […]
SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook Inc said on Thursday (Oct 3) it would stop accepting new political ads in the week before the US election day on Nov 3, in a series of moves the company billed as its final plan for reducing risks of misinformation and election interference. Facebook, the world’s […]
NEW YORK: Apple Inc said on Thursday that it will delay until early next year changes to its privacy policy that could reduce ad sales by Facebook Inc and other companies targeting users on iPhones and iPads. The delay could benefit Facebook, which last week said the changes to the […]
WASHINGTON: The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell below 1 million last week for the second time since the COVID-19 pandemic started in the United States, but that does not signal a strong recovery in the labour market. The drop in initial claims to a five-month […]
BERLIN: German police have found the bodies of five children in an apartment in the western town of Solingen, mass-selling newspaper Bild reported in its online edition today, citing the police. Bild reported that the children’s grandmother had called police to tell them her daughter, aged 27, had killed five […]
MANILA: A US marine convicted of killing a transgender woman will stay in detention in the Philippines while a court reviews its earlier ruling to free him halfway into his 10-year jail term, officials said today. Lance Corporal Joseph Scott Pemberton has been in prison since the October 2014 killing […]
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump rounded on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi yesterday after she was caught on camera visiting a San Francisco hair salon in breach of coronavirus lockdown rules — and with her face mask removed. The Democrat, a bete noire for Trump and his supporters, regularly hounds the […]
MUMBAI: India reported another record daily jump of 83,883 coronavirus infections today, taking its tally to 3.85 million, just 100,000 behind Brazil, the world’s second most affected nation, health ministry data showed. Asia’s worst-hit country has been posting the world’s largest daily caseload every day for almost a month, although […]