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In the United States, a White House staffed by xenophobes is using the coronavirus to strengthen border controls it has long wanted to embrace. In Israel and Singapore, governments are invoking the crisis over Covid-19 to track movements of people on cell phones. In Iran, a government obsessed with control…

In 1968, the late Robert F Kennedy, then a presidential candidate in the United States, pointed out in a famous speech that Gross Domestic Product (GDP) “measures everything … except that which makes life worthwhile”. More than 50 years have passed since that speech, and even though several pundits have noted…

Five people have been killed in a shooting at a gas station in Missouri, including a police officer and the gunman.  Police in the city of Springfield said they received several calls on Sunday evening reporting gunshots being fired from a car in various locations.  Witnesses said the gunman entered…

Are you about to embark on your software localization (L10n) voyage? Or perhaps you’re already in the middle of assigning locales and hreflang to your internal pages. Whatever stage you’re at in your project, there will be a few moments when you feel overwhelmed. That’s because rolling out sophisticated software…

Several cases of bird flu have been reported in India, prompting authorities to order the culling of poultry. Kerala's government said it had deployed special squads to cull all poultry within a 1km radius of the epicentre of the outbreak in Parappanangadi. Authorities said they would cull around 4,000 chickens, ducks and…

Spain’s King Felipe VI has renounced any future personal inheritance he may receive from his father, King Emerit Juan Carlos I, the country’s royal house has said. It follows alleged financial irregularities involving the former monarch. The royal house said in a statement on Sunday that in addition to renouncing his inheritance,…

Hello Friends,  The 60 Days Training has finally begun:) DAY 13 is here! Before any competition, there is a preparatory phase. That phase involves a lot of sessions on strengths and weaknesses. Throughout the preparatory phase, the athletes train in a gradual manner. In the last phase, just before the…

The COVID-19 pandemic provides a measure of our worth as individuals and it is also a stress test for Spain’s political system, a democracy whose welfare state is under great strain as a result of the economic downturn and unresolved territorial issues which complicate the management of an unprecedented situation…

Spanish police stepped up their operation to force people to stay indoors today, with officers driving up and down beaches with megaphones, warning of prison time and massive £25,000 fines for those breaking the lockdown - after the country's deaths from the coronavirus doubled to 288 overnight.Footage shared on Twitter captures…

The alleged former leader of a white-supremacist group accused of threatening journalists and activists was also involved in sharing child pornography, federal prosecutors alleged on Friday. John Cameron Denton was brought to federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, this week on a charge of conspiracy to make interstate threats. Mr Denton’s…