By Andrew MacAskill, Guy Faulconbridge LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s testing system for COVID-19 was creaking on Tuesday as a bottleneck prevented people including medics from getting a test in a potential threat to key health services, with the government saying it may take weeks to resolve the problem. In an attempt to slow one of the highest […]
By Antoni Slodkowski, Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese ruling party head Yoshihide Suga, in line to become the next prime minister, appeared set on Tuesday to continue his predecessor’s policies by keeping key cabinet ministers and party officials in their posts, as he had promised. Suga, long a loyal aide and chief cabinet secretary under outgoing […]
By Alexander Marrow MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny shared a photograph from a Berlin hospital on Tuesday, sitting up in bed and surrounded by his family, and said he could now breathe independently after being poisoned in Siberia last month. The photo – the strongest evidence yet of Navalny’s advancing recovery after emerging […]
Microsoft has said that its offer to buy the US operations of hugely popular video-sharing app TikTok has been rejected, paving the way for Oracle to make a last-minute bid. US President Donald Trump gave a 15 September deadline for the Chinese-owned app to sell or shut down. The Trump administration claims TikTok and other […]
Japan’s governing party has elected Yoshihide Suga as its new leader to succeed Shinzo Abe, meaning he is almost certain to become the country’s next prime minister. Last month Mr Abe announced his resignation due to health reasons. Mr Suga, 71, serves as chief cabinet secretary in the current administration and was widely expected to […]
BBC. TikTok has only been part of our lives for two years, but it’s already had a massive impact on the music business. Now the app has told Radio 1 Newsbeat that agents and managers are asking it for advice on how to get their artists featured. And it’s not just about viral dances anymore. […]
UK-based computer chip designer ARM Holdings is being sold to the American graphics chip specialist Nvidia. The deal values ARM at $40bn (£31.2bn), four years after it was bought by Japanese conglomerate Softbank for $32bn. ARM’s technology is at the heart of most smartphones, among many other devices. Nvidia has promised to keep the business based […]
A prominent student leader has been arrested in connection with February’s deadly riots in Delhi. Delhi police have alleged that Umar Khalid was a “key conspirator” in the riots. Mr Khalid is among several prominent activists and student leaders who have been arrested. Human rights groups say that many activists, mostly Muslims, have been unfairly […]
Yechury has come under the police scanner in an investigation that has aimed to draw direct links between peaceful CAA protesters and rioters. The Wire Staff New Delhi: General secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), Sitaram Yechury hit out at the Delhi police’s investigation into the February riots, in which several students and […]
President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign did not provide a reason for dropping the fundraiser linked to a baseless, dangerous conspiracy theory. Matthew Brown BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence has canceled plans to attend a Trump campaign fundraiser in Montana following revelations that the event’s hosts had expressed support for the QAnon conspiracy theory. President […]
