Source: Reuters MOSCOW, June 22 (Reuters) – Alphabet’s Google may face a fine of 5-10% of its turnover in Russia for what the state communications regulator said on Wednesday was a repeated failure to delete banned content, including “misleading information” on YouTube about events in Ukraine. This is the second fine[Read More…]
June 21 (Reuters) – The rollout in the United States this week of COVID vaccines for children as young as six months is likely to start slowly, and then pick up in the coming days, according to White House COVID-19 response coordinator Ashish Jha. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration[Read More…]
LONDON, June 16 (Reuters) – U.S. rapper Lil Wayne will no longer perform at a British music festival this weekend after he was declined entry into the United Kingdom, organizers have said. The five-time Grammy Award winner, who was sentenced to one year in jail in 2010 relating to a[Read More…]
BEIJING/OTTAWA, June 6 (Reuters) – Diplomatic tensions between China and Canada are rising again, with each country accusing the other of using their military aircraft flying near North Korea of provocation and harassment. Earlier on Monday, China’s foreign ministry warned Canada of potential “severe consequences” of any “risky provocation,” after[Read More…]
May 9 (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin evoked the memory of Soviet heroism in World War Two on Monday to urge his army towards victory in Ukraine, saying the West had been “preparing for the invasion of our land, including Crimea.” Read full story Putin was speaking at the annual Victory Day[Read More…]
LONDON, March 15 (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Tuesday that the actions of a woman who interrupted a live news bulletin on Russia’s state TV Channel One to denounce the war in Ukraine amounted to “hooliganism.” The protester, in an extraordinary act of dissent on Monday, held up a sign behind the studio presenter and shouted slogans denouncing the war in[Read More…]
March 10 (Reuters) – Netflix Inc NFLX.O raised its prices for subscribers in the United Kingdom and Ireland, the streaming platform said on Thursday, in a bid to invest more in production of new shows and films. Prices for its popular standard plan in UK, which allows streaming on two devices at the same[Read More…]
March 10 (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minster Justin Trudeau said on Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin had made a choice to “specifically target civilians” and any further targeting of civilians in Ukraine is going to be met with the “severest of responses.” “Putin’s callous disregard for human life is absolutely unacceptable.[Read More…]
GENEVA, March 7 (Reuters) – Nearly 400 civilians have been killed in attacks in Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover, more than 80% of them by a group affiliated to Islamic State, a U.N. report shows, underscoring the scale of the insurgency faced by the new rulers. It is the first major human[Read More…]
LONDON, March 7 (Reuters) – Britain’s Queen Elizabeth met Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at Windsor Castle on Monday, in her first official in-person meeting after she tested positive for coronavirus last month. Photographs of the meeting showed Trudeau holding the queen’s hand in his, while also chatting and laughing. The palace announced[Read More…]
