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Year-old peace holds in Tigray but Ethiopia fractured
AFP, Published on 01/11/2023
» ADDIS ABABA - An accord signed a year ago between the rivals in Ethiopia's Tigray war has brought peace to the shattered region, but ignited yet another conflict in the increasingly fractured nation.
European telecom firms urge EU to make big tech pay
AFP, Published on 02/10/2023
» BRUSSELS - The heads of European telecoms firms, including Orange and Vodafone, on Monday urged the EU to make tech and streaming giants pay for the massive amounts of bandwidth they use.
Robots tell UN conference: ‘We could run the world’
AFP, Published on 07/07/2023
» GENEVA: A panel of AI-enabled humanoid robots took the microphone on Friday at a United Nations conference with the message: they could eventually run the world better than humans.
Indonesian tribal group wants internet shut off
AFP, Published on 09/06/2023
» JAKARTA: An Indigenous community in Indonesia has requested an internet blackout in their area to minimise the "negative impact" of the online world, officials said Friday.
Power returns to cities in Pakistan day after massive outage
AFP, Published on 24/01/2023
» ISLAMABAD - Power had returned to most cities across Pakistan on Tuesday, a day after a nationwide breakdown left the country of 220 million people without electricity.
Global timekeepers vote to scrap leap second by 2035
AFP, Published on 19/11/2022
» PARIS: Scientists and government representatives meeting at a conference in France voted on Friday to scrap leap seconds by 2035, the organisation responsible for global timekeeping said.
Virtual reality revives Iraq's war-ravaged heritage
AFP, Published on 29/08/2022
» MOSUL (IRAQ) - An Iraqi museum is using computer technology and virtual reality headsets to turn back time, so visitors can explore heritage sites destroyed by jihadist fighters and in battles to defeat them.
Canada bans Huawei and ZTE from 5G networks
AFP, Published on 20/05/2022
» OTTAWA: Canada will ban Chinese telecommunications giants Huawei and ZTE from its 5G wireless networks due to national security concerns, officials said Thursday.
SWIFT, the global finance arm that the West can twist
AFP, Published on 25/02/2022
» PARIS: An exclusion from SWIFT, a very discreet but important cog in the machinery of international finance, is one of the most disruptive of the possible sanctions that the West could deploy against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine.
Telenor Myanmar sale challenged over data leak fears
AFP, Published on 08/02/2022
» The proposed sale of Norwegian telecoms giant Telenor's Myanmar subsidiary could put sensitive personal data of millions of customers into the hands of the junta, according to a complaint filed on Tuesday.