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Black Mirror is back to unsettle
Life, Published on 25/04/2025
» Charlie Brooker is back with a new season of the dystopian sci-fi, cautionary-tale dark comedy series Black Mirror. Like previous seasons, this one delivers six episodes -- including a much-anticipated follow-up to the wildly popular USS Callister, which is titled USS Callister: Into Infinity.
US State Department to cut positions, rights offices
AFP, Published on 23/04/2025
» WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's top diplomat Marco Rubio on Tuesday unveiled a restructuring of the US State Department that will cut positions and scale back human rights offices, saying the "bloated" organization was ideologically out of sync with the administration.
NZ draft law seeks ‘biological’ definition of man and woman
AFP, Published on 22/04/2025
» WELLINGTON - A populist party in New Zealand’s governing coalition on Tuesday proposed a law to enforce a biological definition of men and women, condemning the existing “woke ideology” of “cancerous social engineering”.
Apple customers dash to stores to buy iPhones ahead of tariffs
Bloomberg News, Published on 08/04/2025
» NEW YORK - The Trump administration’s threat of massive new tariffs has sent Apple’s share price plummeting, but it also brought a short-term benefit: customers rushing to retail stores to buy iPhones.
Trump smashes trade systems in record time
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 08/04/2025
» In ten whirlwind weeks, Donald Trump had already smashed the international system of rules and alliances that more or less kept the peace for the past eighty years, but his bizarre "tariffs on everybody" policy has given us a glimpse of what may take its place. It's the United States against the whole world, and America's only possible great-power ally is Russia.
Google AI Search Overview leaves website makers feeling betrayed
Bloomberg News, Published on 07/04/2025
» NEW YORK -- In March 2024, website owner Morgan McBride was posing for photos in her half-renovated kitchen for a Google ad celebrating the ways the search giant had helped her family’s business grow. But by the time the ad ran about a month later, traffic from Google had fallen more than 70%, McBride said.
Trump order targets 'improper ideology' at famed US museums
AFP, Published on 28/03/2025
» WASHINGTON — United States President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to remove "improper ideology" from the famed Smithsonian Museums -- and the National Zoo -- expanding his conservative clampdown on cultural institutions.
Journalism 'under threat' in Turkey
AFP, Published on 28/03/2025
» ISTANBUL — Yasin Akgul, a photojournalist for Agence France-Presse who was arrested this week after covering the huge protests rocking his native Turkey, said after his release on Thursday that the profession is under threat in the country.
ONE Championship targets Rodtang vs Jonathan Haggerty next – with Denver in frame
Published on 27/03/2025
» ONE Championship boss Chatri Sityodtong revealed Jonathan Haggerty is “next” for Rodtang Jitmuangnon, with the Bangkok Post understanding the fight is being targeted for Denver.
ONE Championship: Chatri says Superlek ‘refused to fight’, will book five-round title trilogy against Nabil
Published on 25/03/2025
» ONE Championship will look to book a five-round trilogy fight between Superlek and Nabil Anane as confusion over the bantamweight Muay Thai title continued on Sunday.