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Israel blocks law that keeps out Palestinian spouses

Israel’s parliament early on Tuesday failed to renew a law that bars Arab citizens from extending citizenship or residency rights to spouses from the occupied West Bank

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Design student creates device that rapidly stops bleeding from stab wounds

Joseph Bentley says his prototype, called REACT, is quicker and more effective than the traditional method of wound packing.

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Why Western accusations against China's ethnic minorities are a lie

Editor's note: While facts and figures show that the population and proportion of China's ethnic minorities experienced a pronounced increase, anti-China extremists lik

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Why Western accusations against China's ethnic minorities are a lie

Editor's note: While facts and figures show that the population and proportion of China's ethnic minorities experienced a pronounced increase, anti-China extremists lik

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Belarusian protester fights extradition from Russia

Andrei Kazimirov left Belarus for Russia last September to sit out a crackdown on anti-government protests after he was detained over a rally in August and beaten while

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Gunshots heard near George Floyd Square one year after his murder

00:30 Reporter Philip Crowther was interrupted by what are believed to be gunshots, as he was reporting on the anniversary of George Floyd's murder in Minneapolis for CGTN. He tweeted t

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U.S.: Unclear if Iran ready to return to compliance with nuclear deal

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Sunday that it remains unclear if Tehran is willing to take steps to return to compliance with the Iran nuclear deal."The outstanding question, the ques

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Turkey: Term Genocide 'Has to Be Used' for Washington, Not Ankara

Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay has claimed the US president's recent recognition of events in 1915 as Turkey's genocide against Armenians can be put down to two reas

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Porsche makes its case for an all-electric Taycan wagon

Porsche has always gone its own way when it comes to creating new vehicles. It is, after all, the company that continues to stick to the wacky idea that putting the weight of an engine in the rear of

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Turkey summons US ambassador over genocide announcement

Turkey’s foreign ministry has summoned the U.S. ambassador in Ankara to protest the U.S. decision to mark the deportation and killing of Armenians during the Ottoman Em

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Queenly raises $2.3M for its dress marketplace

One of our favorite companies from the most recently Y Combinator batch has closed a seed round. This morning Quenly announced that it has closed a $2.262 million round, following its $800,000 pre-see

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As UiPath closes above its final private valuation, CFO Ashim Gupta discusses his company’s path to market

After an upward revision, UiPath priced its IPO last night at $56 per share, a few dollars above its raised target range. The above-range price meant that the unicorn put more capital into its books t

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Why it’s not surprising to see nine-figure AI rounds 

Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s broadly based on the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch, but free, and made for your weekend reading. If

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City of London Brexit hit worse than expected, says study

Over 400 financial firms in Britain have shifted activities, staff and a combined trillion pounds ($1.4 trillion) in assets to hubs in the European Union due to Brexit,

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Nighttime spectacle debuts at Shanghai Disneyland

Amid awe and cheers, Shanghai Disneyland launched a brand-new nighttime show, featuring Marvel characters and more, to celebrate its five-year anniversary.The all-new nighttime spectacular ILLUMINATE!

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U.S., Iran clash on sanctions with more talks in coming weeks

Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif stresses U.S. remove all sanctions reimposed by former U.S. president Donald Trump in Iran on his twitter. /@JZarif U.S. and Iranian officials clashed on F

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Private equity, a SPAC and an IPO walk into a bar

The first quarter of 2021 was a busy season for technology exits. Coming off a hot period in the final quarter of 2020, it was no surprise that tech upstarts pursued liquidity through a variety of mec