Google, a unit of Alphabet, the world’s leading technology company, has been slammed a record $2.7 billion fine by Europe’s anti-trust agency. The fine signalled a tough stance by the agency in the first of three investigations into the company’s dominance in searches and smartphones. It is the biggest fine the EU has ever imposed […]
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A massive cyber-attack has affected Russian and Ukrainian companies and government agencies. The virus known as Petya has affected Rosneft, Bashneft, Mars, Nivea and Mondelez, the International producer of Alpen Gold chocolate – all Russian companies. Affected Ukrainian establishments are Auchan Hypermarkets, Privatbank and local telecommunication operators. Ukrainian state power company and Kiev’s main airport, […]
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U.S. President Donald Trump has sent a strong warning to Syrian President Bashar Assad over another plan to use chemical weapons on civilians including children. A statement issued Monday night by Press Secretary Sean Spicer said the Trump administration discovered evidence that the regime of Assad could be planning another chemical weapons attack. It said […]
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Akinwumi Adesina, the president of African Development Bank (AfDB), has been named the 2017 World Food Prize Laureate. NAN reports that Adesina, whose name was selected on Monday in Washington DC, becomes the 46th recipient and the sixth African to be so honoured. The award ceremony would take place on October 19. Announcing the new […]
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Facebook will soon start production of high-quality television series and gaming shows to be broadcast on its platform, one of the social media giant’s executives said on Monday. The online platform, which has around two billion monthly users worldwide, is working on the project with a small group of partners and hopes to start putting […]
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Over 100 people have died and another 100 injured after an overturned oil tanker caught fire. The tragedy at the Ahmad Sharqia area of Bahawalpur in Pakistan on Sunday morning occurred as a crowd attempted to scoop fuel from the tanker. The tanker exploded. Dozens of motorbikes and cars passing by were caught in the […]
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President Donald Trump’s administration has banned cameras from the daily press briefing at the White House. However, the resourceful US media are undaunted as they deployed sketch artists to cover the event. Cable news channel CNN sent sketch artist Bill Hennessy to the famous West Wing press room, a change from the American courtrooms where […]
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U.S. President Donald Trump said he did not make and does not possess any tapes of his conversations with James Comey, the former FBI director. The recant came after suggesting last month he might have recordings that could damage Comey. “With all of the recently reported electronic surveillance, intercepts, unmasking and illegal leaking of information, […]
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As UK citizens experience unexpected high wave of temperature which rose 40C, the world has been warned to expect killer heat this year. Other parts of Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and the U.S. have already seen record temperatures for May and June. The Pakistani city, Turbat, recorded 54 degrees in late May, the […]
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Police said on Monday that the death toll in the fire that ravaged a London tower block on June 14, has risen to 79. Fire broke out in the 24-storey Grenfell Tower, a social housing block in west London, in the early hours of June 14 and spread with terrifying speed, tearing through the building […]
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