MADRID, July 5 (Reuters) – Spanish police have seized semi-submersible drones used by drug traffickers to ship narcotics across the Strait of Gibraltar into Spain, the Interior Ministry said on Tuesday, the first time such purpose-made devices have been discovered in Spain.  Three drones, including one made out of a surfboard, were[Read More…]

PARIS, July 4 (Reuters) – The Eiffel Tower is riddled with rust and in need of full repairs, but instead it is being given a cosmetic 60 million euro paint job ahead of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, according to confidential reports cited by French magazine Marianne. The wrought-iron 324-meter (1,063 ft) high tower, built by Gustave Eiffel in the late 19th century,[Read More…]

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…]