Israeli missile strikes building in central Damascus, five dead By: Reuters on February 19, 2023AMMAN, Feb 19 (Reuters) – An Israeli rocket strike early on Sunday hit a building in central Damascus’s Kafr Sousa neighbourhood near a large, heavily guarded security complex close to Iranian installations, killing five people, witnesses and officials said. The rare, targeted strike damaged several buildings in the densely populated district close to Omayyad square […]
China declares ‘decisive victory’ over COVID-19 on February 17, 2023BEIJING, Feb 17 (Reuters) – China’s top leaders declared a “decisive victory” over COVID-19, claiming the world’s lowest fatality rate, although experts have questioned Beijing’s data as the coronovirus tore across the country after largely being kept at bay for three years. China abruptly ended its zero-COVID policy in early December, with 80% of its 1.4 billion […]
Turkish woman dies a day after her rescue By: Reuters on February 11, 2023KIRIKHAN, Turkey, Feb 11 (Reuters) – A woman died in hospital on Saturday a day after she was pulled out of the rubble of a collapsed building in southern Turkey, where she had been trapped for 104 hours since Monday’s devastating earthquake, rescuers said. German rescuers pulled 40-year-old Zeynep Kahraman out of the rubble in the […]
Olympics row deepens as 35 countries demand ban for Russia and Belarus By: Reuters on February 11, 2023VILNIUS, Feb 10 (Reuters) – A group of 35 countries, including the United States, Germany and Australia, will demand that Russian and Belarusian athletes are banned from the 2024 Olympics, the Lithuanian sports minister said on Friday, deepening the uncertainty over the Paris Games. The move cranks up the pressure on an International Olympic Committee […]
Activist investor ValueAct takes stake in Spotify By: Reuters on February 10, 2023Reuters: Spotify Technology SA (SPOT.N) has been acquired by ValueAct Capital Management at a time when the audio streaming company is looking to cut costs. “We welcome ValueAct as an investor in Spotify,” a spokesperson for the Swedish company said on Friday, without disclosing further details on the investment. Spotify’s shares rose 3.5% to $125. ValueAct Chief Executive Mason Morfit disclosed the investment during a presentation at a Columbia University event in New York on Friday, according to Bloomberg […]
Shoppers to face fresh price hikes as stores, suppliers pass on costs By: Reuters on February 8, 2023 Grocery costs seen rising further in 2023 -executives, analysts Input costs exacerbated by Ukraine war Retailers seeking to pass on high raw material costs Unilever, Nestle, Danone to report results this month Cost inflation likely to be a feature – analysts LONDON, Feb 8 (Reuters) – According to retailers, consumer goods companies, […]
Google introduces a ChatGPT rival, Bard By: webdesk on February 7, 2023To compete with ChatGPT, Google is releasing the Bard chatbot, which is AI-powered. Bard is based on Google’s huge language model Lamda, which one programmer said had responses that were so similar to humans’ that he thought it might even be sentient AI tools for its current search engine. AI chatbots also announced new AI chatbots are made to find information and respond to queries. The most well-known example is ChatGPT. […]
Imran Ali Yousaf celebrates defamation win against Daily Mail, David Rose By: By Our Correspondent on December 11, 2022Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s son-in-law Imran Ali Yousaf has said that he was defamed by David Rose in the Daily Mail newspaper just because he was married into the Sharif family and the paper published lies about him despite knowing that he was never involved in any kind of corruption or benefitting from the Pakistan […]
Trevor Noah is stepping down from “The Daily Show” By: webdesk on September 30, 2022It has been seven years since he took Jon Stewart’s place, he said during a Thursday night Comedy Central taping. He announced that he would leave at a later time. The South African comedian Trevor Noah, who took over as host of “The Daily Show” after Jon Stewart left seven years ago, revealed on Thursday […]
First woman to lead UN’s telecom agency By: AFP/ Web Desk on September 30, 2022GENEVA: Doreen Bogdan-Martin was elected on Thursday as the first woman to lead the UN’s telecom agency in its 157-year history, with the US contender beating a Russian rival to the post. Bogdan-Martin will become the next secretary general of the International Telecommunication Union, which plays an important global role in setting the technical standards […]