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02-05-2024 BEINING: New rules that tighten restrictions on China’s internet companies have come into effect today. The expanded State Secrets Law compels firms including social media giants Tencent, ByteDance and Weibo to take action if users post sensitive information. It requires “network operators” to monitor information being shared by users. …

02-05-2024 LONDON: Scientists are trying to create a new type of bread that is just as healthy as whole-meal but looks and tastes like its white counterpart. Aimed at lovers of white bread, the project has been funded by the government to improve the health benefits of UK food. The …

02-05-2024 MELBOURNE: Australian airline Qantas says it is investigating a privacy breach on its app that left customers with access to others’ personal details. Some users reported seeing several boarding passes and flight details belonging to strangers, including their names and frequent flyer information. Qantas said it fixed the problem …

02-05-2024 NEW YORK: Police officers in riot gear arrested dozens of pro-Palestinian demonstrators at Columbia University in Manhattan on Tuesday night and cleared a building that protesters had seized about 20 hours earlier. Columbia said it had called the police to campus for the second time in less than two …

02-05-2024 LONDON/ DUBAI: “Tens of millions” of people are using technical workarounds to secretly access WhatsApp in countries where it is banned, the messaging platform’s boss has said. “You’d be surprised how many people have figured it out,” Will Cathcart told media. Like many Western apps, WhatsApp is banned in …

02-05-2024 NEW YOYK: In October 2016, lawyer Keith Davidson was promised “the easiest deal” he had ever done in his life. On Tuesday, he found himself on the stand in the first criminal trial of a former US president, reading aloud profanity-ridden text messages that led to that deal. Prosecutors …

02-05-2024 BOGOTA: Colombia’s military has lost millions of bullets, thousands of grenades and several missiles, the nation’s president has said. Gustavo Petro said the missing items had come to light during recent inspections of military bases. He blamed the disappearances on internal corruption, saying military personnel sold weapons to arms …

01-05-2024 NEW YORK: The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial fined the former US president $9,000 for contempt of court and said he would consider jailing him if he continued to violate a gag order. In a written order, Justice Juan Merchan said the fine may not be …

01-05-2024 COLUMBIA: Four law enforcement officers were fatally shot and four others were wounded while serving a warrant in Charlotte, North Carolina, officials say. At least one alleged attacker was found dead in the front yard of a barricaded home after a standoff that lasted three hours, police said. Authorities …

01-05-2024 WASHINGTON/ JERUSALEM: The US state department has found five units of the Israeli military responsible for gross violations of human rights in individual incidents, but says they will continue to receive US military backing. All the incidents involved took place outside of Gaza before the current war. Israel took …