Meta Platforms will face a coalition of state attorneys general in a California federal court trial beginning on Wednesday over claims it engineered Facebook and Instagram to be addictive to children, a case that could expose the company to massive damages and force it to make sweeping changes to its platforms. The trial in Oakland,…
Rejoiners like to pretend the economic figures all go their way. But could the UK be sitting on a £525bn fiscal bonanza? Some readers may have noticed that I am a supporter of Brexit. I am familiar with the arguments and rarely surprised. But I was surprised by two analyses that were sent recently to…
Britain has been grappling with how to curb the perilous and politically contentious crossings, which in recent years have seen tens of thousands of migrants arriving annually on the shores of southeast England. A record 230 migrants in one small boat crossed the English Channel to Britain, France’s lifeboat service and UK media said on…
Bunia, Congo — At least 2,000 people have died among the confirmed cases in Congo’s Ebola outbreak that is the fastest-spreading on record, according to the latest government data, as health authorities struggle to get help quickly to remote localities due to rebel conflict, bad roads and work stoppages over payment issues. Data published overnight…
34 million people across four countries felt shaking as Choco communities face road-cut isolation A magnitude 7.4 earthquake tore through western Colombia on Monday morning, partially collapsing the passenger terminal at Matecaña International Airport in Pereira, injuring residents across at least five cities, and triggering a USGS Orange Alert — the service’s second-highest warning level,…
Greetings from Tyler, The Strait of Hormuz has always been strategic, but now more than ever. All that oil has to pass, though, and we’ve been talking about the passageway forever. Dad did programs where that was front and center. How’s the war going? There are many reports, and I’m sure every news organization wants…
Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey signed a mutual defence pact on Friday that would treat any act of aggression on one of the three nations as an attack on all of them, the allies said in a joint statement. However, it did not specify if the agreement would bind them to any particular military action…
Some issues remain unresolved in deal, which could reopen strait for 60 days, may include fees; Houthis say they struck 2 Saudi tankers; Iran warned Gulf it would strike if US renewed attacks Iran’s foreign ministry said Wednesday that Iran and Oman have agreed on a route for ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz and…
Greetings from Tyler, Who knows what’s going on in Iran? I learned a long time ago that the Arabs lie. It’s part of their culture. I’m not going to tell you what else they do, but it’s not good. It’s hard to keep up with the news out of the Strait of Hormuz. News is…
Spain said around 50,000 people had crossed the border since Thursday morning, and estimated that 48,300 had voluntarily returned by 6 p.m. (1600 GMT) on Friday. Juan Jesús Vivas, head of Ceuta’s local government, said as many as 60,000 people had pushed across over the past couple of days. Fifty-seven bodies had been recovered on…