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(FILES) (Photo by Thomas SAMSON / AFP) PARIS – More than 110 people dining at a clandestine restaurant were fined late yesterday for violating a Covid-19 lockdown, Paris police said, days after the government denied allegations that ministers had attended similar underground soirees. The swoop in the French capital’s 19th ...

Credit: Reuters Photo WELLINGTON -New Zealand temporarily suspended entry for all travellers from India, including its own citizens, for about two weeks following a high number of positive coronavirus cases arriving from the South Asian country. The move comes after New Zealand recorded 23 new positive coronavirus cases at its ...

BANGKOK – Social media giant Twitter launched an emoji for the Milk Tea Alliance, a global online pro-democracy movement that has united anti-Beijing campaigners in Hong Kong and Taiwan with protesters in Thailand, Myanmar and beyond. Activists welcomed the announcement of the emoji – a white cup set against a ...

Reuters LONDON – Apple Inc said that in the coming weeks it will start enforcing a new privacy notification rule that digital advertising firms such as Facebook Inc have warned will hurt their sales. Apple said the notices will become mandatory when its iOS 14.5 operating system becomes available in ...

PHOTO: Reuters England cricketers Saqib Mahmood, Jofra Archer and Sam Billings have lashed out at controversial Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen after her distasteful tweet on Moeen Ali. Taslima, who has been in exile for more than 25 years after a fatwa was issued against her for ‘criticizing Islam’ by a ...

TAIPEI – A global shortage of chips for mid-end consumer products is starting to ease and will be much better come the second half of the year, a senior executive at Taiwan’s Acer Inc, the world’s No. 5 PC vendor by shipments, said on Tuesday. From delayed car deliveries to ...

DUBAI – Iran has arrested an “Israeli spy” and a number of other people who were in contact with foreign intelligence services, Iranian state media reported on Monday, without giving the nationality of those arrested. “An Israeli spy has been arrested in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province … also other spies ...

copyright – MSCHF NEW YORK – A federal judge sided with Nike Inc in ordering a Brooklyn company to temporarily stop further sales of “Satan Shoes” it produced in collaboration with the rapper Lil Nas X. U.S. District Judge Eric Komitee in Brooklyn ruled three days after Nike sued MSCHF ...

LONDON – Visa Inc said it will allow the use of the cryptocurrency USD Coin to settle transactions on its payment network, the latest sign of growing acceptance of digital currencies by the mainstream financial industry. Visa has launched the pilot program with payment and crypto platform Crypto.com and plans ...

LONDON – A New York Times columnist has sold one of his articles in digital form for $563,000, the latest example of the craze surrounding “non fungible tokens,” which collectors are snapping up. Keven Roose’s article entitled “Buy This Column on the Blockchain” was itself aimed at trying to test ...