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June 24, 2022
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…]
By Paresh Dave OAKLAND, Calif., June 21 (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp on Tuesday said it would stop selling technology that guesses someone’s emotion based on a facial image and would no longer provide unfettered access to facial recognition technology. The actions reflect efforts by leading cloud providers to rein in[Read More…]
By Kanishka Singh and Emilio Parodi June 20 (Reuters) – Oscar-winning Canadian screenwriter and director Paul Haggis is under house arrest in southern Italy on charges of sexual assault and aggravated personal injury, accusations that Haggis denies, his lawyers said on Monday. “Mr Paul Haggis was detained on Sunday with[Read More…]
PARIS, June 13 (Reuters) – Russia’s relentless shelling of the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv with cluster munitions and scatterable land mines amounts to a war crime that indiscriminately killed hundreds of civilians, Amnesty International said on Monday. Ukraine’s second largest city Kharkiv was under near-constant bombardment from the beginning[Read More…]
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, June 10 (Reuters) – The United States will drop from Sunday a 17-month-old requirement that people arriving in the country by air test negative for COVID-19, an official said, a move that follows intense lobbying by the airlines and the travel industry. A formal announcement will[Read More…]
June 7 (Reuters) – New York City police were searching on Tuesday for a man who grabbed and pushed a woman onto the tracks at a Bronx train station over the weekend, the latest in a string of violent crimes on one of the world’s largest transit systems. New York[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…]
By Guy Faulconbridge LONDON, June 6 (Reuters) – Russia warned U.S. news organizations on Monday they risked being stripped of their accreditation unless the treatment of Russian journalists in the United States improves, according to three sources with knowledge of the matter. Since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, some[Read More…]
June 1 (Reuters) – Russia’s invasion of Ukraine enters its 100th day on Friday with no end in sight to the fighting that has killed thousands, uprooted millions and reduced cities to rubble. After abandoning its assault on the capital, Kyiv, Russia is pressing on in the east and south[Read More…]
May 30 (Reuters) – Efforts to evacuate civilians in the Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine were suspended on Monday after an armored transport was hit by shrapnel from a Russian shell, killing a French journalist, regional governor Serhiy Gaidai said. Gaidai wrote on the Telegram app that the shrapnel had[Read More…]