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London, United Kingdom -- A British woman suffering from motor neuron disease who lost her ability to speak is once...
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Paris, France - Developer Jonathan Jacques-Belletete has taken a gamble on forthcoming game "Hell is Us", hoping to ape the...
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Move over Pegasus, new Israeli spyware comes along to target journalists, politicians
Spyware like Pegasus has been widely used by governments and other actors to spy on opponents, media and activists. The...
- The spyware and related exploit or hacking software was created by the little-known firm QuaDream Ltd
- Citizen Lab, which studies the abuse of digital technologies, said it identified five people targeted by QuaDream
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US should be cautious when setting interest-rate policy: Fed official
In the wake of the fall of Silicon Valley Bank, the US Federal Reserve should be cautious in setting interest-rate...
- Since March last year, the Fed has raised interest rates by almost five percentage points, tightening monetary policy in a bid to dampen demand and slow price increases
- The Fed continued with another 25 basis-point hike last month despite the turbulence in the financial markets caused by the rapid collapse of SVB
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Israeli forces kill two Palestinians in occupied West Bank
Jerusalem, Undefined - Israeli forces killed two Palestinians in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, Israel's defense minister Yoav Gallant said....
- A senior Palestinian official told AFP that he had been informed of the death of the two Palestinians, who were not immediately identified.
- Violence has surged in the region over the last week as the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, Jewish Passover and Christian Easter coincided.
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9 Arab nations to discuss Syria ties at Saudi Arabia meet on Friday
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, diplomatically isolated since the start of the Syrian war in 2011, has visited the UAE and...
- Saudi Arabia announced last month that it has started talks with Damascus about resuming consular services.
- Syria was expelled from the Arab League over the crackdown on pro-democracy protests that unleashed the war.
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Yemen prisoner swap to start Thursday as peace hopes rise
Nearly 900 prisoners, most of whom were fighting with Houthi rebels, will be flown between Yemen and Saudi Arabia, which...
- Houthis will release 181 prisoners, including Saudis and Sudanese, in exchange for 706 detainees held by government forces, according to a pact reached last month in Switzerland.
- Yemen's six-month, UN-brokered truce that officially lapsed in October is still largely holding, providing respite for a population of 30 million that is mostly dependent on aid.
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Twitter ad ‘to fall’ 28% in 2023
Major advertisers suspended Twitter activity after Musk took over.
- In January 14 of the top 30 advertisers on Twitter stopped advertising on the platform since Musk took charge on October 27.
- Musk's leadership has also cooled Twitter's remaining users, with Insider Intelligence forecasting a two minute drop in time spent on the platform to 34 minutes per day.
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Germany to shut down last three remaining nuclear plants
At a time when many Western countries are ramping up nuclear power in their transition to greener energy sources, Europe's...
- The exit decision was popular in a country with a powerful anti-nuclear movement fuelled by fears of Cold War conflict and disasters such as Chernobyl
- The three final nuclear plants provided six percent of Germany's energy last year, compared with 30.8 percent from all nuclear plants in 1997
Tesla sued over workers’ alleged access to car video imagery
Tesla employees "circulated recordings of Tesla customers in private and embarrassing situations, without their consent," courtesy of sophisticated camera systems...
- San Francisco resident filed the suit in federal court, in the wake of a Reuters report citing former Tesla staff who said video or pictures had been accessed from people's cars
- Cameras in vehicles captured "highly-invasive videos and images" which were used for "the tasteless and tortious entertainment" of Tesla employees, the suit maintained
Algeria moves to further curb press freedom with new law
The new law would ban Algerian media outlets from receiving funding or "direct and indirect material aid" from abroad, under...
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- Earlier this month an Algiers court sentenced prominent journalist Ihsane El Kadi to three years in prison for "foreign financing of his business"
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China’s consumer price inflation falls below one percent in March
Struggling to recover from its pandemic-driven slump, China, the world's second largest economy, has reported that its consumer price inflation...
- According to National Bureau of Statistics, the CPI came in at 0.7 percent, down from the one percent seen a month earlier
- Although commodity and food prices have been rising all over the world, China has not been hit by increases linked to the Ukraine war
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UN probe accuses Israel of seeking to ‘destroy’ Gaza healthcare
"Israel has perpetrated a concerted policy to destroy Gaza's healthcare system as part of a broader assault on Gaza," the...
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US warns Israel not to repeat Gaza destruction in Lebanon
Netanyahu said in a video address addressed to the people of Lebanon on Tuesday: "You have an opportunity to save...
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Saudi Crown Prince holds talks with Iranian foreign minister in Riyadh
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- Hezbollah told the Lebanese authorities it accepted a ceasefire with Israel the day an Israeli strike killed its leader Hassan Nasrallah