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How millions of people are at risk of being locked out of society
Many are at risk of digital exclusion (Picture: Getty) Earlier this week it was revealed that visitors and residents in Paris would need to show a QR code on their phone to enter certain parts of the city. The temporary requirement is part of security measures being put in place around this summer’s...
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European Organisers Respond After EU Makes An Official Complaint About This Year's Competition
Malmö Arena, where this year's Eurovision Song Contest took place Eurovision bosses have responded to a complaint made by the European Union’s vice president about this year’s competition. Last week, the annual song contest took place in Malmö amid a wave of controversy that included calls for a...
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EU leader Josep Borrell calls for collective global action in Gaza and Ukraine
European Union (EU) High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell M.S. ’75 visited the Hoover Institution on Monday for an event hosted by the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. In a keynote speech followed by a conversation with the...
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Donald Trump's son-in-law to redevelop NATO-bombed buildings
An investment group led by Jared Kushner has landed a deal to build a $500 million hotel in Serbia Former US President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and another former White House aide have landed a contract with the Serbian government to develop a luxury hotel on the site of a military...
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Texas governor Abbott pardons man who killed Black Lives Matter protester
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has granted a full pardon to a former US Army sergeant and Uber driver who was jailed for 25 years for fatally shooting a Black Lives Matter protester in 2020. Abbott, a Republican, in his pardon proclamation, cited the state’s “Stand Your Ground” self-defence law, one of...
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Kurdish leader jailed by Turkey court for 42 years over 2014 deadly riots
Ankara [Turkey], May 17 (ANI): A Turkish Court has sentenced over 20 Kurdish politicians, including former presidential candidate Selahattin Demirtas, on bogus charges of crimes against the state and for their role in the 2014 deadly riots that erupted as Islamic State group overran the Syrian town...
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Michael Cohen gives Donald Trump his best day in hush money trial so far
Donald Trump finally had a good day in court. The presumptive GOP nominee has often seemed embarrassed and infuriated by his first criminal trial, which has featured salacious exposés of his personal life and details of his alleged attempts to cover it up. But on Thursday, he got to savor his former...
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Taiwan grapples with divisive history as new president prepares for power
Taipei, Taiwan – Even as Taiwan prepares for the inauguration of its eighth president next week, it continues to struggle over the legacy of the island’s first president, Chiang Kai-shek. To some, Chiang was the “generalissimo” who liberated the Taiwanese from the Japanese colonisers. To many...
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Russia expels British defence attaché in tit-for-tat move
Russia has ordered the British defence attaché in Moscow to leave within a week in a tit-for-tat move that underlines fraught relations between London and the Kremlin. The foreign ministry said Adrian Coghill was being expelled in response to the “politically motivated” and “Russophobic” expulsion...
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Microsoft asks some employees in China to move to other countries
Microsoft has asked at least 100 of its employees in China to consider moving to other countries, according to Chinese state media reports. The reports come as relations between Beijing and Washington deteriorate over technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and clean energy. Microsoft...
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