Thu 14 March 2024: A Russian court has fined Google 4 million rubles ($43,680) for failing to block access to certain content banned in Russia. The court found Google guilty of failing to comply with the law by not restricting access to some prohibited content on YouTube. “Google LLC. was found guilty of committing an […]
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Thu 14 March 2024: 45 companies in Germany began a six-month experiment of a four-day workweek, which will see workers work one fewer day per week for the same salary. The non-profit group 4 Day Week Global (4DWG) is collaborating with Intraprenor, a human resource consultant located in Berlin, to lead the campaign. The labor […]
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Thu 14 March 2024: The US government and the United Nations, on Tuesday, expressed concerns about a contentious religion-based citizenship law in India, with the UN calling the legislation “fundamentally discriminatory in nature”, Reuters reports. Rights advocates have criticised the 2019 Citizenship Amendment Act, which the Indian government moved to implement on Monday. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International say it discriminates against […]
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Thu 14 March 2024: The number of children who died before the age of five globally reached a historic low of 4.9 million in 2022, according to the latest estimates released on Wednesday by the United Nations (UN) Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation. A report by the Group found that the global under-five mortality […]
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TikTok users watch the House vote during a protest outside the Capitol in Washington, DC Thu 14 March 2024: In a latest blow to big tech and China, the US House of Representatives passed a bill by an overwhelming majority that would outlaw the social networking site TikTok nationwide. The law was overwhelmingly supported […]
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Thu 14 March 2024: German sportswear giant Adidas saw a net loss in 2023, according to a press release on Wednesday. The company’s net loss was €58 million ($63.4 million) in 2023, down from a net income of €254 million in 2022. Sales totaled €21.4 billion last year, down by 4.8% on a yearly basis. […]
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Wed 13 March 2024: Meta, the parent company of Facebook and WhatsApp, has been working on adding a number of new features to its most recent updates with the goal of improving users’ instant messaging experiences. One of the features that will be added soon is the ability for users to turn photographs into stickers. […]
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Wed 13 March 2024: US President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are headed for a rematch after both clinched their respective party’s nominations on Tuesday. Both candidates were projected to win their primaries in the states of Georgia, Mississippi and Washington, giving them the magic numbers they needed to clinch, according to multiple […]
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Wed 13 March 2024: If Russia’s statehood is under danger, President Vladimir Putin has issued a warning, saying that his country is “ready” to deploy nuclear weapons. “From a military-technical point of view, we are, of course, ready. They (Russian forces) are constantly in a state of combat readiness,” Putin told the state-run Rossiya-1 television […]
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Wed 13 March 2024: The UK government is considering the possibility of amending existing legislation to block the £600 million ($767m) takeover of Telegraph Media Group by Abu Dhabi-backed private equity firm RedBird IMI. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is reportedly exploring the possibility of introducing new powers that would allow ministers to prevent a foreign state […]
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