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By Alexandra Alper WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Biden administration is set to unveil new export restrictions on China as soon as next week, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce told members in a Thursday email. The new regulations could add up to 200 Chinese chip companies to a trade restriction list that bars most U.S. suppliers from […]
High-ranking Kremlin officials and Russia’s security services were behind the decision to shutter Moscow’s award-winning Gulag History Museum, Moscow officials close to the matter have said. Moscow authorities announced Wednesday that the museum, which chronicles one of the darkest chapters of the Soviet Union’s repressions, would temporarily close due to “fire safety violations” that “pose […]
The Minister of Environment, Balarabe Lawal, has urged rangers to intensify the crackdown on poachers and illegal miners at the Gashaka Gumti National Park in Serti, Taraba State. The minister gave the order on Wednesday while commissioning a rangers outpost in the northern sector of the park in Tungo Local Government Area of Adamawa State. […]
The Hong Kong government has given new identification numbers to lamp posts that inadvertently referenced the date of the Tiananmen crackdown, with the numbers “8964” and “6489” erased in favour of new codes. A worker spray-paints a new number over a Tseung Kwan O lamp post that was labelled EB6489 on November 12, 2024. Photo: […]
OVERSTAYING Filipinos in the US must leave the US as soon as possible as President-elect Donald Trump is likely to implement his major campaign promise to conduct massive deportation of illegal aliens in the U.S by January 2025. Philippine Ambassador Jose Manuel “Babe” Romualdez said there are estimated 250,000 to 300,000 Filipinos who illegally stayed […]
The head of Russia’s human rights council on Wednesday called Moscow’s major crackdown on dissent part of “sanitary measures” while the country fights in Ukraine, denying the existence of political repression. Russia has banned criticism of its war on Ukraine, handing out prison terms or fines to those who denounce it. All of President Vladimir […]
Officials have said more than 100 of Europe’s most dangerous criminal networks operate in Belgium. (AFP pic) BRUSSELS: A court in Belgium sentenced more than 100 people in a mass drug trafficking trial on Tuesday which authorities hailed as a major victory in the battle against drug gangs. Belgium has been on the frontline in […]
An increasing number of Russian political activists have been placed in forced psychiatric treatment — a practice dating back to the Soviet era and involves confinement in mental hospitals. According to rights activists, some political prisoners who have undergone this treatment report being subjected to humiliation, beatings and being injected with powerful antipsychotic drugs. The number of […]
Starlink Backtracks, AI Royalty Heist The US Navy Is Going All In on Starlink Starlink backtracks, complies with order blocking X in Brazil, says regulator Elon Musk and the rise of supranational oligarchs Telegram quietly updates website to allow abuse reports following founder’s arrest The Internet Archive just lost its appeal over ebook lending FBI […]