NEW DELHI: Social media giant Facebook admitted yesterday it has to do better to curb hate speech as it battled a storm over how it handled comments by a member of India’s ruling party who called Muslims traitors. “We’ve made progress on tackling hate speech on our platform, but we […]
Year: 2020
SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter yesterday said it is bracing for efforts by President Donald Trump or others to attack the integrity of the US election, as US media reported that Facebook and YouTube were planning defences of their own. Trump has used Twitter in particular to stoke unsubstantiated doubts about mail-in […]
GENEVA: The world should be able to rein in the coronavirus pandemic in less than two years, the World Health Organisation said on Friday, as European nations battled rising numbers of new cases. Western Europe has been enduring the kind of infection levels not seen in many months, particularly in […]
SYDNEY: Australia’s second most populous state, Victoria, reported 13 new coronavirus deaths in the 24 hours to this morning, authorities said, while new infections in the hotspot state remained below 200 for the second consecutive day. Other than in Victoria, which accounts for over 80 per cent of the country’s […]
SEOUL: South Korea started talks with China’s top diplomat today, the first visit by a high-level Beijing official since the new coronavirus emerged in China late last year. Yang Jiechi, a member of the Communist Party Politburo, was meeting South Korea’s new national security adviser, Suh Hoon, in the southern […]
WASHINGTON: The Republican Party is to make its case next week for four more years of President Donald Trump after his Democratic opponent Joe Biden wrapped up his party’s convention with a vow to end what he called a “chapter of American darkness.” With the nation digesting the impact of […]
Joe Biden said he will be prepared to do whatever it takes to save lives because “we cannot get the country moving until we control the coronavirus” Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden says he would do whatever was needed to keep the country safe amid the coronavirus pandemic even if […]
SINGAPORE: The Singapore-registered company that says it is close to buying English soccer club Newcastle United admits it doctored photos of former US President Barack Obama in marketing materials used to publicise the newly formed group. Bellagraph Nova Group (BN Group) also said some of the information in those materials […]
In a tweet, the company also said that 18% of the participants currently enrolled are Black, Latino, American Indian or Alaska Native, groups among the hardest hit by the coronavirus virus pandemic. Drug developer Moderna Inc on Friday said it has so far enrolled 13,194 participants in the ongoing late-stage […]
The White House on Friday held a memorial service for Robert Trump, whom the US president described “not just my brother. He was my best friend.” US President Donald Trump on Saturday posted an emotional tweet remembering his brother Robert Trump, who passed away at the age of 71. Donald […]