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Italy's dormant bobsleigh track ready for troubled 2026 Winter Olympics
AFP, Published on 02/11/2023
» CESANA TORINESE (ITALY) - The Cesena Torinese bobsleigh track has been dormant for over a decade since being built for the 2006 Winter Olympics but is ready to come to the aid of the troubled Milan-Cortina edition in just under two years' time.
Azerbaijan offensive takes advantage of global turmoil
AFP, Published on 21/09/2023
» PARIS - Azerbaijan has taken advantage of a ripe political moment to bring the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh back under its control, experts say.
Facial recognition makes subtle advance in Britain
AFP, Published on 18/11/2019
» LONDON - The experiment was conducted discreetly. Between 2016 and 2018, two surveillance cameras were installed in the Kings Cross area of London to analyse and track passers-by using facial recognition technology.
New cocoa deals help peasant farmers, but not enough
AFP, Published on 03/11/2019
» ABIDJAN - The willingness of some multinational firms to pay a cost-of-living bonus for African cocoa planters is welcome but will not save many farmers from grinding poverty, industry sources say.
Telegram secretly plans 'Gram' cryptocurrency
AFP, Published on 04/09/2019
» MOSCOW - Working in secrecy for a year, the Telegram messaging service has a plan: to beat Facebook in the race to launch a cryptocurrency with its new project "Gram".
BA scrambles to address theft of passenger bank details
AFP, Published on 07/09/2018
» LONDON - British Airways will financially compensate customers whose bank card data were stolen in a "sophisticated" and "malicious" hack, chief executive Alex Cruz said Friday as he apologised for the fiasco.
Britain to fine Facebook over data breach
AFP, Published on 11/07/2018
» LONDON: Britain's data regulator has said it will fine Facebook half a million pounds (22 million baht) for failing to protect users' data, in an inquiry into whether personal information had been misused by campaigns on both sides of Britain's 2016 EU referendum.
EU's new data protection rules come into effect
AFP, Published on 25/05/2018
» BRUSSELS: The European Union's new data protection laws came into effect on Friday, with Brussels saying the changes will protect consumers from being like "people naked in an aquarium".