GENEVA: The WHO on Monday (Jun 7) called for COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers to give COVAX first refusal on new doses, or commit half of their volumes to the global jab equity scheme. World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said manufacturers should turn their attention to the COVAX facility, which […]
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CALIFORNIA: Apple on Monday (Jun 8) said a new “private relay” feature designed to obscure a user’s web browsing behavior from internet service providers and advertisers will not be available in China for regulatory reasons. The feature was one of a number of privacy protections Apple announced at its annual […]
While this document may just be a nod towards the God of Mischief’s famed shape-shifting capabilities as it says sex and not gender, fans have taken this to mean that Loki indeed is gender fluid. Everybody’s favourite MCU supervillain Loki is now apparently confirmed, canonically, to be gender-fluid. A new […]
PARIS: American teenager Coco Gauff today became the youngest woman to reach a Grand Slam quarter-final in 15 years while Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal braced to face the future of tennis at the French Open. Gauff swept to an impressive 53-minute, 6-3, 6-1 win over Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur. At […]
JERUSALEM: Israel could face another week of political suspense after its parliament speaker declined today to schedule a pivotal vote on a coalition aiming to oust veteran premier Benjamin Netanyahu after 12 straight years in power. Politicians swapped bitter accusations of undermining the political process after Netanyahu accused his foes […]
CUPERTINO: Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook and his team address one of their most important audiences today, kicking off an annual conference for app developers at a time the iPhone maker is defending itself in court over its App Store practices. The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, being held online […]
Google said on Monday it will test changes to its widely-used online advertising services over the coming months following the French antitrust decision. PARIS: Google said on Monday it will test changes to its widely-used online advertising services over the coming months following the French antitrust decision. The company also […]
NEW DELHI: Key Indian cities re-opened for business today, with long queues for buses in the financial hub of Mumbai while traffic returned to the roads of New Delhi after a devastating second wave of coronavirus that killed hundreds of thousands. The 100,636 new infections of the past 24 hours […]
BRUSSELS: The United States’ reputation as the leading global power has suffered in France and Germany because of Washington’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic that has killed nearly 600,000 Americans, a poll showed on Monday. On the eve of President Joe Biden’s trip to Europe, the survey by the German […]
PARIS: Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova rolled back the years as she reached the quarter-finals of the French Open for the first time since 2011 by beating former world number one Victoria Azarenka 5-7 6-3 6-2 today. The 31st seed, who will play in the last eight of a Grand Slam for […]