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British American Tobacco to pay $635m for North Korea sanctions breaches
British American Tobacco is to pay $635m (£512m) plus interest to US authorities after a subsidiary admitted selling cigarettes to North Korea in violation of sanctions. The US authorities said the settlement related to BAT activity in North Korea between 2007 and 2017. BAT’s head Jack Bowles said “we deeply regret the misconduct”. The US…
NATO finds gaping holes in Europe’s defences
BRUSSELS, July 24 (Reuters) – The war in Ukraine and the looming U.S. presidential election dominated a NATO summit in Washington this month but, away from the public stage, the alliance’s military planners have been focused on assessing the enormous cost of fixing Europe’s creaking defences. NATO leaders agreed plans last year for the biggest…
Chinese hackers breached State, Commerce Depts, Microsoft and US say
WASHINGTON/LONDON, July 12 (Reuters) – Chinese state-linked hackers since May have secretly accessed email accounts at around 25 organizations, including at least two U.S. government agencies, Microsoft (MSFT.O) and U.S. officials said on Wednesday. The United States detected a breach of federal government accounts “fairly rapidly” and managed to prevent further breaches, White House national…
Trump’s meeting with Sharaa, unthinkable just months ago, boosts Syrians’ hopes
Donald Trump has said his administration is now exploring the possibility of normalising relations with Syria – his comments coming shortly after he met Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa, whose forces ended the decades-long dictatorship of the Assad family. The extraordinary encounter, unthinkable just months ago, was short but significant. “I think he has got…
For First Time, Streaming Viewing Topped Broadcast and Cable Combined in May
More and more, life is but a stream for us consumers of TV. Nielsen’s latest monthly viewership report, titled The Gauge, shows that for the month of May, TV viewing done via streaming eclipsed broadcast and cable combined for the first time ever. According to The Gauge, streaming represented 44.8% of TV viewership in May…
Magnitude 5.1 earthquake gives SF Bay Area a big shake
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake was felt widely across California’s greater San Francisco Bay Area on Tuesday, rattling homes and shaking windows. The quake hit at 11:42 a.m. with a depth of 4 miles, just south of Mount Hamilton in the hills about 12 miles east of downtown San Jose, according to the U.S. Geological Survey….


