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Garland: More “depth” needed to protect against cyberattacks

Attorney General Merrick Garland said Tuesday that private industry needs better safeguards to avoid calamitous consequences in the event of cyberattacks like the ones

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Nicolas Sarkozy's lawyer tells court 'to make mistakes is not a crime'

/Christophe Archambault/AFP The defense has presented its closing statements in the trial of the former France President Nicolas Sarkozy for illegal campaign financing."Nicolas Sarkozy has not

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India orders antitrust investigation against Google over alleged abuse of Android’s dominance in smart TV market

India’s antitrust watchdog has ordered an investigation into allegations that Google has abused the dominant position of Android in the country’s smart TV market. The news comes hours after the Europe

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Trump DOJ takes extreme measures to another level

In the spring of 2006, top Justice Department officials were considering an extraordinary next step in a bribery investigation of a sitting House member.Then-Attorney G

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Push to review 2020 votes across US an effort to ‘handcuff’ democracy

Conservative activists across America are pushing efforts to review the 2020 vote more than six months after the election, a move experts say is a dangerous attempt to

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Credit Suisse scandals prompt Switzerland to think unthinkable: punish bankers

Exasperation with Credit Suisse following a string of scandals is prompting Switzerland to rethink a system in which top bankers have been largely untouchable.Credit Su

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Trump’s Hotel in Washington DC Raised Prices to Deter QAnon, Report Says

Trump International was reportedly among several hotels monitored by the police, who were looking for possible threats against Joe Biden’s inauguration and Trump’s impe

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U.S. Attorney General Garland weighs release of Trump-era obstruction memo

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland faces a Monday deadline to decide whether to appeal a court order criticizing his predecessor William Barr, an early test of his w

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France’s Sarkozy goes on trial over 2012 campaign financing

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy goes on trial on Thursday on charges that his unsuccessful 2012 reelection bid was illegally financed, a scandal that has thrown

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Former Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi seriously ill, prosecutor says

Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is seriously ill and his trial on charges of bribing witnesses should be temporarily suspended, a Milan prosecutor says.

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The Sleazy World of Politics: BoJo’s Alleged Ex-Lover Writes TV Drama Inspired by Their ‘Fling’

Netflix, Amazon and Disney+ get in line: a bombshell story is reportedly up for grabs, tailored to appeal to TV audiences, reports The Sun.While featuring fictional cha

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Google hit with $123M antitrust fine in Italy over Android Auto

Google has been fined just over €100 million (~$123M) by Italy’s antitrust watchdog for abuse of a dominant market position.The case relates to Android Auto, a modified version of Google’s

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Facebook board upholds Trump suspension

Former President Donald Trump won’t return to Facebook — for now.The social network’s quasi-independent Oversight Board voted to uphold his ban from the platform after

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Thai ruling thwarts opposition bid to disqualify minister over drugs link

Thailand's Constitutional Court on Wednesday ruled that a prominent politician should keep his cabinet post, thwarting opposition moves to disqualify him over news repo

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Coinbase brings cryptocurrencies to Wall Street

The arrival Wednesday of cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase on Nasdaq is one of the most anticipated events of the year on Wall Street, where enthusiasm for record-breaking bitcoin is in full swing, de

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China’s Xpeng in the race to automate EVs with lidar

Elon Musk famously said any company relying on lidar is “doomed.” Tesla instead believes automated driving functions are built on visual recognition and is even working to remove the radar

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Nigeria’s SEC warns investment platforms to stop trading ‘unregistered’ foreign securities

In a circular released by Nigeria’s capital market regulator SEC, investment platforms providing access to foreign securities might be treading on dangerous grounds. According to the SEC new reg