Twitter said governments around the world made requests to remove content from a record number of user accounts between January and June last year, in data to be released by the social media company on Tuesday. The platform said governments made 43,387 legal demands for the removal of content from […]
Day: January 25, 2022
ZURICH : Logitech International expects the global shortage of semiconductor chips to continue throughout 2022, Chief Executive Bracken Darrell told Reuters on Tuesday. “I think it is going to be around a while,” Darrell said. “I don’t think it (the shortage) will be as severe by the time we get […]
BOGOTA : Neurosurgery on Colombian cyclist Egan Bernal has “ended successfully,” the hospital where he was treated said on Tuesday, just hours after the former Tour de France winner slammed into a vehicle and injured his spine, legs and chest. Bernal, who became the first South American to win the […]
LONDON: Britain will not hesitate to toughen sanctions on Moscow and will look to contribute to any Nato deployment if Russia invaded Ukraine, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said today. Nato said yesterday it was putting forces on standby and reinforcing eastern Europe with more ships and fighter jets, in what […]
LONDON: British police said today they had opened an investigation into possible Covid lockdown breaches at Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Downing Street residence after receiving evidence from an internal government probe into a series of gatherings. Johnson is fighting for his political life after a series of claims that he […]
Daniel Craig and Javier Bardem had shared screen space in the acclaimed Bond movie Skyfall, where Bardem played the main antagonist. Actor Javier Bardem has revealed that he once dressed in drag to celebrate “Skyfall” co-star Daniel Craig‘s birthday. The two actors, who became close friends during the making of […]
SEOUL: South Korea’s daily count of new coronavirus cases topped 8,000 for the first time today, as the highly contagious Omicron variant spreads rapidly despite the recent extension of strict social-distancing rules to slow infection. The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) reported 8,571 cases for yesterday, exceeding the […]
WASHINGTON: The United States today warned Russia of damaging sanctions, including high-tech export curbs, and said attempts by Moscow to “weaponise” its enormous oil and gas industry would backfire. “We are prepared to implement sanctions with massive consequences” that go far beyond previous measures implemented in 2014 after Russia invaded […]
TOKYO: A Japanese advisory panel is set to approve the expansion of tougher measures against Covid-19 to 18 additional regions today, putting more than 70 per cent of the country under restrictions. The western prefectures of Osaka and Kyoto are among the areas covered by the measures, taken in response […]