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Donald Trump's Facebook ban could be lifted by Oversight Board
After Pro-Trump protesters stormed the USA legislature, Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg said: "We believe the risks of allowing the president to continue to use our service during this period are simply too great". "It could become a potentially important institution that could operate as a meaningful check and balance to the extraordinary power Facebook exercises over the public sphere-or, alter... [Full Article...]
Judge says Amazon won't have to restore Parler web service
Capitol. "Parler welcomes Rep. Maloney's call to have the Federal Bureau of Investigation conduct a robust examination of our policies and actions", Wernick said. Amazon said the company signed up for its cloud computing services about a month later, thereby agreeing to its rules against risky content. Those companies also cited Parler's poor record of policing violent content in explainin... [Full Article...]
L'oléoduc Keystone, première crispation entre Biden et Trudeau ?
TC Énergie a averti que cette décision entraînerait la mise à pied de milliers de travailleurs syndiqués et qu'elle survenait malgré ses engagements à utiliser plus d'énergie renouvelable et à élaborer des partenariats avec les communautés autochtones. [Full Article...]
Where Did Bernie Sanders Get His Inauguration Day Mittens From?
And several artists were quick on the draw with their own takes. One user claimed they wanted to be a "Michelle Obama", but knew deep down they were a " Bernie Sanders ". People also took note of the man who executed the critical task of wiping down the lectern in between appearances. I will sing to the hearts of all people who live on this land. [Full Article...]
Iran reaffirms failure of U.S. policy of maximum pressure
A "tyrant's era came to an end and today is the final day of his ominous reign", Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said earlier in televised remarks to his cabinet. "The United States and other Western countries have turned our region to a powder keg, not Iran", Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told state TV. [Full Article...]
Italy's PM survives two confidence votes
Mr. Renzi has regularly attacked Mr. Conte's economic proposals before pulling out of the government last week. Mr. Conte, a little-known law professor who was chosen to lead two unwieldy coalition governments in 2018 and 2019, has become an unexpectedly stable premier since a year ago, when Italy became the first Western country to be severely hit by the coronavirus. [Full Article...]
Hillary Clinton Suggests Trump Updated Putin During Capitol Riots
Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton resurrected the Russian Federation hoax narrative while seeking to place blame for the violence on Capitol Hill. Fox reported that Clinton and Pelosi were "blasted by [the] left " for "continuing to push "Russiagate" and even compared their speculation that Trump has ties to Putin to the QAnon conspiracy theory. [Full Article...]
Bild: Germany’s Merkel wants to extend lockdown until February 15
Merkel told reporters on Tuesday that the government will extend existing measures until February 14. She said now is the time to guard against the dangers posed by the mutated forms of the coronavirus . "We will certainly have to discuss the situation with Switzerland", she said at a press conference in Berlin on Thursday, referring to the situation with countries bordering Germany that are affe... [Full Article...]
United Kingdom records worst daily Covid-19 death rate in the world
The UK coronavirus strain has spread to at least 60 countries, the World Health Organization reported Wednesday, after US President-elect Joe Biden led a moving tribute to American victims. This is slightly below the record 34,336 patients on January 18, but is up 1 percent on a week ago and up 88 percent since Christmas Day. "To prevent our already stretched health system from becoming overwh... [Full Article...]
Apple's AirPods Pro get the biggest discount in 2021 on Amazon
They joined the family of AirPods and AirPods Pro and got quickly sold out. The ultimate outcome has disclosed some definitely attention-grabbing particulars about AirPods Max like the headband basically now being user-removable which could trace at customization, how the electromechanical hinge hardware is effective, and that they are "actually fairly serviceable". [Full Article...]
Russian Federation tells social networks: Stop promoting anti-Kremlin Navalny protests to minors
The protests are also aimed against Russia's ruling elite in the wake of Navalny's viral video exposé into President Vladimir Putin's alleged $1.3 billion seaside palace. After he was placed behind bars, Navalny's associates released a probe into an opulent Black Sea property in the Krasnodar region allegedly owned by Putin alongside a fundraising call to support more investigations. [Full Article...]
Russia Dismisses Calls for Sanctions After Navalny Arrest
His arrest drew widespread Western condemnation, with the United States, the European Union (EU), France, and Canada calling for his release. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Tuesday said Moscow was aware of the reaction to Navalny's arrest but "cannot and does not" plan to take the responses into account. [Full Article...]
India asks WhatsApp to revert its controversial privacy policy changes
It leverages the social significance of WhatsApp to force users into a bargain that may infringe on their interests in relation to informational privacy and security, the letter noted. Creating a "honeypot of information about users" is risky, it added. "The collection and onward sharing with Facebook companies, of sensitive personal data of individuals portend an ecosystem where any meaningful ... [Full Article...]
US Is First To Designate China's Treatment Of Uighurs As 'Genocide'
Trump later denied that was the case, but he told Axios last June that he had blocked sanctions on Chinese officials over the camps because he was in the "middle of a trade deal" negotiation. Tuesday's move is the latest in a series of steps the outgoing Trump administration has taken to ramp up pressure on China over issues from human rights and the coronavirus pandemic to Taiwan, Tibet, Hong... [Full Article...]
Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 launched
The Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 5G Chipset uses Kryo 585 cores, which are based on ARM's Cortex-A77. The only major difference between the two chipsets is that the new processor sports a 3.2GHz clock speed for the top-end CPU core , up 100MHz from the old chip. [Full Article...]
At least two killed in Madrid city centre explosion
The blast happened just before 3 p.m. local time (1400 GMT) in Calle de Toledo, a main thoroughfare just south of the city center. "The most likely hypothesis is a gas leak, there was a person working on the boiler", the mayor told reporters as he announced that a body had been discovered under the rubble, raising the death toll to three. [Full Article...]
Virus: La Martinique durcit les conditions d'entrée sur son territoire
Le gouvernement l'avait annoncé dans son allocution le 14 janvier: de nouvelles mesures entrent en vigueur pour les territoires d'Outre-mer, également victimes de la propagation de la Covid-19 et inquiets de l'arrivée des variants britanniques et sud-africain . [Full Article...]
Gov. Cuomo proposes tax credits for theatrical productions in NY
In his budget address today, Cuomo once again called on Congress to repeal a law that prevents property owners from deducting their local tax bills from their federal income taxes. He said NY would spend $600 million less on Medicaid and continue $900 million in 5% across-the-board spending reductions. Lowry, who also highlighted the need for more specifics to understand the proposal's impact on... [Full Article...]
Police Investigate Private Lab That Reported Incorrect Covid Test Results
Tens of millions of residents in Hebei province surrounding Beijing , the northeastern Jilin province and Heilongjiang have been put into lockdown in recent weeks amid what is the worst wave of new infections since March 2020. The country had largely brought the virus under control even as the rest of the world struggles with mounting deaths and overburdened hospitals. China's capital Be... [Full Article...]
Jack Ma makes first public appearance in 3 months
Although Ma has no official position at either Ant Group or Alibaba , he is the "ultimate controller" of the fintech company, according to the company's IPO prospectus, and still had a 4.8% stake in the e-commerce giant as of July 2. The Alibaba Group, which Ma co-founded more than two decades ago, cited a scheduling conflict as reason for his absence. Ma generally interacts with rural te... [Full Article...]