WELLINGTON: With promises of extra financing for small businesses and more jobs as a severe economic downturn looms, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Sunday launched her party’s campaign ahead of September general election. Ardern’s rise to become New Zealand’s most popular prime minister in a century, buoyed by […]
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WASHINGTON: A wave of protests over law enforcement abuses has highlighted concerns over artificial intelligence programs like facial recognition which critics say may reinforce racial bias. While the protests have focused on police misconduct, activists point out flaws that may lead to unfair applications of technologies for law enforcement, including […]
ACCRA: Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo will self-isolate for 14 days on the advice of doctors after a person in his close circle tested positive for coronavirus, the government said in a statement late on Saturday (Jul 4). “He has, as at today, tested negative, but has elected to take this […]
LONDON: A British royal historian who said slavery was not genocide has quit his honorary position at Cambridge University and been dropped by his publisher HarperCollins. The comments from Professor David Starkey came during a period of soul searching in Britain over its colonial past. The Black Lives Matter movement […]
FRANKFURT: German animal-rights activists protested outside a meat factory in North Rhine Westphalia on Saturday (Jul 4) where hundreds of employees tested positive for the coronavirus last month, prompting local quarantines and shutdowns. Activists climbed the roof of the slaughterhouse and processing plant in Toennies and unfurled a banner saying […]
LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to begin phasing out the use of Chinese tech giant Huawei’s technology in Britain’s 5G network as soon as this year, The Daily Telegraph reported on Saturday (Jul 4). Officials are drawing up proposals to stop installing new Huawei Technologies equipment in […]
WASHINGTON: Two United States aircraft carriers were conducting exercises in the disputed South China Sea on Saturday (Jul 4), the US navy said, as China also carried out military drills that have been criticised by the Pentagon and neighbouring states. China and the United States have accused each other of […]
HONG KONG: Beijing’s new national security law for Hong Kong is the most radical shift in how the semi-autonomous city is run since it was handed back to China by Britain in 1997. China’s authoritarian leaders say the powers will restore stability after a year of protests and will not […]
DENVER: Three Colorado police officers were fired and a fourth resigned after they shared photographs they took of themselves re-enacting a chokehold officers used to subdue a black man who later died, authorities said on Friday (Jul 3). Vanessa Wilson, interim chief of police in the Denver suburb of Aurora, […]
HONG KONG: A man accused of deliberately driving his motorbike into a group of police officers became the first person in Hong Kong to be charged under Beijing’s sweeping new national security law on Friday (Jul 3). Tong Ying-kit, 23, was hit with one charge of inciting secession and one […]