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- Technology
Uber Eats to pay millions for listing US restaurants without consent
San Francisco: Ride-hailing major Uber will pay millions of dollars as settlement with the City of Chicago in the US for listing local restaurants in food delivery apps Uber Eats and Postmates…
- Technology
Meta expands AI face-scanning to Facebook dating in US
San Francisco: Meta announced that it has expanded its Artificial Intelligence (AI) face-scanning tool and ID Upload tool to Facebook Dating in the US, to verify users’ age. The tools will make…
- World
Russian leader rebukes US for ‘containing’ others
Moscow: The world should be multi-polar, but the US attempts to restrain the development of other countries to maintain its hegemony, said Vyacheslav Volodin, Chairman of the Russian State Duma. “Washington and…
- World
Iran accuses US of ‘seeking to cause chaos’ to force concessions in nuke talks
Tehran: Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has accused the US, along with some other Western countries, of “seeking to cause chaos” in Iran to force its concessions in the talks on reviving…
- News
Europe would be in trouble without US: Finnish PM
Sydney: Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin said that Europe is not “strong enough right now” and that it “would be in trouble without the US”. The Finnish leader who is currently on…
- World
US, Japan impose fresh sanctions on N Korea after ballistic missile test
Tokyo: The United States and Japan have announced fresh sanctions on North Korea, in response to Pyongyang’s latest ballistic missile tests. The Biden administration targeted three individuals who have led organizations linked…
- World
Biden meets top Congressional lawmakers on lame-duck session
Washington: US President Joe Biden met top congressional lawmakers to discuss the agenda on the lame-duck session on Capitol Hill. In the House of Representatives, the lame-duck session marks Democrats’ final opportunity…
- World
China warns US not to interfere with its relationship with India: Report
Washington: A Pentagon report revealed that China has warned the US not to interfere with Beijing’s relationship with India. Throughout the 2020-2021 standoff in the Galwan Valley in Ladakh, Chinese officials sought…
- World
‘US working to improve early warning system against N.Korean missile launches’
Washington: The US is working to further improve its missile warning system, the commander of US Space Command has said, following a barrage of North Korean missile tests that included multiple intercontinental…
- World
US weekly flu hospitalisations hit record high since 2010
Washington: Over 11,200 patients in the US were hospitalized with flu, the highest since 2010, according to data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Seasonal influenza activity is…
- Business
US judge stops Amazon from firing employees for unionisation
New York: A US judge has issued a cease and desist order against Amazon to stop the commerce giant from firing employees for unionisation. The order by US District Court Judge Diane…
- World
China’s zero-Covid policy not going to work; everyone has right to protest peacefully: US
Washington: The White House said on Monday that China’s zero-Covid policy is unlikely to work and reaffirmed that everyone around the world has the right to protest peacefully, amidst unprecedented demonstrations in…
- Telangana
Two students from Telangana drown in US lake
Hyderabad: Two students from Telangana died of drowning in a lake in the US state of Missouri. Uthej Kunta (24) and Shiva D. Kelligari (25) drowned in the Lake of the Ozarks…
- India
US Walmart shooter legally purchased handgun on morning of attack: Police
Washington: The gunman, who fatally shot six people at a Walmart in Chesapeake of the US state of Virginia, legally purchased a handgun, police said. The attacker, identified as 31-year-old Andre Bing,…
- Middle East
India upset at ‘unnecessary’ reference to Modi by US official
New Delhi: India is upset at a reference to Prime Minister Narendra Modi by a US State Department official while defending the immunity it had extended to Saudi Arabia’s crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, who…
