The Congress of El Salvador has approved a law that will classify Bitcoin as legal tender in the Latin American country, its president said, making it the world's first nation to adopt a... .
PARIS (Reuters) -French PresidentEmmanuel Macron was slapped in the face on Tuesday by a man in a crowd of onlookers while on a walkabout in southern France, video of the incident showed. Macron’s security entourage quickly intervened to pull the man to the ground and move Macron away from him ... .
MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 08th June, 2021) The ChineseEmbassy in the United States has slammed what it believes are baseless allegations that the novel coronavirus leaked from a lab, comparing them with false accusations that suggested Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction ... ....
The Amsterdam-based MarketInformation Research Foundation (SOMI) sued the video-sharing platform TikTok on behalf of 64,000Dutch parents, seeking 1.4 billion euros (about $1.7 billion) for allegedly collecting data from millions of children ... In addition, SOMI pointed out that TikTok collects far more data than it needs for marketing.
DAMASCUS – Israeli air strikes in central Syria killed at least eight pro-government fighters late Tuesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. “At least five army soldiers and three allied fighters were killed,” Observatory chief Rami Abdul Rahman said, adding that several more were wounded ... .
Washington... Nor have they been able to agree on an independent commission into the January 6 Capitol riot, an infrastructure spending package or police reform..
A 37-year-old South African woman broke the Guinness World record by giving birth to 10 babies, according to media reports Tuesday ... Teboho Tsotetsi said his wife also had six-year-old twins. He said he was happy and emotional about the news ... .
San Francisco. Former US presidentDonald Trump, banned on all key social media platforms, has welcomes the Nigeria ban on Twitter, saying more countries should do the same. Trump issued a statement late on Tuesday, supporting the Nigerian government’s decision to suspend Twitter activities, the media reported ... 2024?” ... .
At least 10 people have been killed and 16 others injured in an armed attack on staff members of a British-American charity in Afghanistan that has been clearing land mines in the country for decades, officials said on Wednesday ... He said the victims were all Afghan citizens, and the wounded were transferred to hospitals ... Taliban attacks ... .
The wealthiest Americans – including Warren Buffett, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos – paid little in federal income taxes at times in recent years, despite soaring fortunes, according to Internal Revenue Service data obtained by ProPublica ... "If you don't realize [the income], you don't pay," Mr Hoopes added. Read More ... Monday to Friday ... .
Emma Coronel Aispuro, the wife of Mexican narcotics kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, is expected to plead guilty this week to federal charges of helping him run the notorious Sinaloa drug cartel, the New York Times reported on Tuesday ... Her plea agreement will not require her to cooperate with U.S ... A spokesman for the U.S ... Our Standards.
"When I meet Maros Sefcovic later today my message will be clear. time is short and practical solutions are needed now to make the Protocol work," he said."Further threats of legal action and trade retaliation from the EU won't make life any easier for the shopper in Strabane who can't buy their favourite product ... This work is important.
The Albanian parliament on Wednesday started an extraordinary session to vote on the impeachment of the country’s president after a parliamentary investigation concluded that he should be removed from office for violating the constitution ... .