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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is expected to step down from his executive role, CNBC reported. Twitter stock was up on the news before being halted due to news pending. Shares of the microblogging platform surged 9% in early trading, while those of digital payments firm Square Inc (SQ.N), of which Dorsey is also chief […]
Japan on Monday said it would ban all new foreign arrivals from Tuesday, Kyodo news agency reported. The Japanese government had earlier said it was considering reviving a blanket ban on foreign arrivals due to concerns regarding the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus. Japan’s border restrictions were eased in early November, allowing students, […]
American designer and men’s Artistic director for Louis Vuitton , Virgil Abloh is dead. He died on Sunday, at the age of 41, after battling with cancer. This was disclosed on his Instgram account. However, after being diagnosed in 2019 with a rare, aggressive form of cancer known as cardiac angiosarcoma, the CEO of […]
A group of Bayern Munich fans are putting pressure on the club to end their controversial Qatari sponsorship deal amid claims of human rights abuses. Bayern signed a five-year sponsorship deal with state-owned Qatar Airways in 2018 which the German media claim is worth around 20 million euros ($22.5 million) per year to the […]
France and Real Madrid forward Karim Benzema was found guilty of complicity in the attempted blackmail of a former international team mate over a sex tape on Wednesday and sentenced to a one-year suspended jail term. The Versailles court also fined him 75,000 euros ($84,170) and ordered him to pay former team mate Mathieu […]
Emirates Airline says it has suspended the resumption of flight operations between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Nigeria to November 30. This is despite the efforts of the federal government to resolve differences with Emirates Airline over COVID-19 guidelines. The airline said this on Wednesday in an updated statement posted on its website. […]
The star of a hit new Indian film tackling the oppression of marginalised communities was under armed police guard Thursday after threats of violence. “Jai Bhim” is a legal drama based on the true story of an activist lawyer fighting for a tribal woman whose husband was wrongly arrested and killed in police custody […]
At least three people were killed and 15 wounded Friday by a blast at a mosque in Afghanistan’s restive Nangarhar province, a hotbed of Islamic State activity, officials said. The blast — for which no group has yet claimed responsibility — underscores one of the many challenges facing the new Taliban regime in Afghanistan, with […]
A French aid worker who was kidnapped and held hostage in Mali for four years has returned to the West African country on her own initiative, the French government said Wednesday, calling her decision “irresponsible”. Sophie Petronin, 76, was taken by gunmen in December 2016 in the northern Malian city of Gao and held […]
Kylian Mbappe on Monday confirmed that he told Paris Saint-Germain in July he wanted to leave the club. “I said at the end of July that I wanted to leave,” Mbappe said in an interview with RMC radio. “My position has been clear. I said I wanted to leave and I told them (PSG […]
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