Maribor, 23 March – Večer expresses apprehension about China's inroads into Europe via its One Belt One Road initiative, noting in Saturday's commentary that despite their focus on Brexit, this was an issue that EU leaders were unable to ignore at this week's summit. The rest of this news item is available to subscribers.The news […]
Welcome to FiveThirtyEight’s weekly politics chat. The transcript below has been lightly edited. sarahf (Sarah Frostenson, politics editor): On Thursday, political Twitter was abuzz with the news that former Vice President Joe Biden (a still undecided 2020 Democratic contender) was considering launching his campaign with Stacey Abrams, a rising star in the Democratic Party who […]
Date created : 23/03/2019 – 22:14 Yellow vest protesters clashed sporadically with French police firing tear gas on Saturday during a mostly peaceful march through Paris to the Sacré Coeur basilica in Montmartre. ADVERTISING Read more Scattered yellow vest protesters clashed with French police firing tear gas Saturday after a peaceful march through Paris, but […]
Bulgarian Justice Minister Tsetska Tsacheva has resigned following media reports that she and three other ruling center-right GERB party politicians have purchased luxury apartments at below market prices, the government’s press office said. Tsacheva has denied any wrongdoing. Prime Minister Boyko Borissov accepted Tsacheva’s resignation after meeting with her early on March 23, the press […]
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has criticized Colombia’s government for its failure to adopt a law that defines the powers of a war crimes tribunal. The IACHR said it was concerned that more than two years after peace was signed with demobilized FARC guerrillas, the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) continues to operate without […]
Shopify has cut off Mailchimp from its app store in a battle over treatment of customer data and the two sides are blaming each other. Get used to it as the industry is likely to see more battles over data and application programming interfaces. The modern cloud infrastructure and services ecosystem is held together by […]
A team of security researchers has hacked a Tesla Model 3 car on the last day of the Pwn2Own 2019 hacking contest that was held this week in Vancouver, Canada. Team Fluoroacetate –made up of Amat Cama and Richard Zhu– hacked the Tesla car via its browser. They used a JIT bug in the browser […]
LONDON (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of people opposed to Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union marched through central London on Saturday to demand a new referendum as the deepening Brexit crisis risked sinking Prime Minister Theresa May’s premiership. After three years of tortuous debate, it is still uncertain how, when or even if Brexit […]
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Nakheel – the master developer behind the Palm Jumeirah in Dubai – has announced a net profit of AED4.38 billion for 2018. Breaking Travel News
Barbra Streisand is facing criticism for expressing sympathy towards late singer Michael Jackson, who is accused of sexually abusing children. She told the Times she believed allegations made in the documentary Leaving Neverland but said “it didn’t kill” the alleged victims. “Did you really say that?” the film’s director Dan Reed asked of Streisand in […]