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Google to pay $700m in US antitrust settlement
AFP, Published on 19/12/2023
» SAN FRANCISCO - Google parent Alphabet has agreed to pay $700 million as part of an antitrust settlement made public on Monday, with the funds going to US customers of its Android app store and state governments.
Fortnite maker wins court fight with Google
AFP, Published on 12/12/2023
» SAN FRANCISCO - Epic Games, the maker of Fortnite, won a major US court battle against Google on Monday when a jury decided that the search engine giant wields illegal monopoly power through its Android app store.
US judge halts pending TikTok ban in Montana
AFP, Published on 01/12/2023
» SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked a ban on TikTok set to come into effect next year in Montana, saying the popular video sharing app was likely to win its pending legal challenge.
Paris booksellers fight Olympic clearance plan
AFP, Published on 18/11/2023
» PARIS - Paris booksellers, who have operated from little dark green kiosks on the banks of the Seine for some 150 years, are incensed by plans to remove them for the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympics.
New use of landmines ‘drives up casualties’
AFP, Published on 14/11/2023
» GENEVA - New use of landmines, including extensive deployment by Russia in Ukraine, drove a global rise of new casualties from the weapons in 2022, a monitor said on Tuesday.
North Gaza hospitals 'out of service' as fighting rages
AFP, Published on 13/11/2023
» GAZA STRIP (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES) - The hospitals in the centre of the heaviest north Gaza fighting have been forced out of service amid shortages and combat, the Hamas-run health ministry said Monday, adding the number of patients dying in the biggest medical centre had risen.
US surgeons perform world's first whole eye transplant
AFP, Published on 10/11/2023
» WASHINGTON - A team of surgeons in New York has performed the world's first transplant of an entire eye in a procedure widely hailed as a medical breakthrough, although it isn't yet known whether the man will ever see through the donated eye.
One month on, Gaza war set to intensify
AFP, Published on 07/11/2023
» JERUSALEM - Israel's deadliest ever war in Gaza, sparked by the Oct 7 Hamas attacks, entered its second month Tuesday as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stressed there would be no ceasefire until the militant group releases its 240 hostages.
Hundreds more wounded, foreigners hope to flee Gaza
AFP, Published on 02/11/2023
» RAFAH, Palestinian Territories - Hundreds more wounded and foreign passport holders hoped to escape war-torn Gaza on Thursday as Israeli forces bombed and fought intense ground battles with Hamas militants in the besieged Palestinian territory.
Australian woman arrested in lethal mushroom mystery
AFP, Published on 02/11/2023
» SYDNEY - Australian police on Thursday arrested the woman at the centre of a mushroom meal mystery that left three people dead and a local preacher fighting for his life.