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Keir Starmer Warns PM Johnson UK Gov’t Risks 'Losing Billions’ by Rejecting Biden’s Global Tax Plan

Keir Starmer has warned Boris Johnson that failure to support US President Joe Biden’s global minimum tax rate plan, touted as a means of cracking down on tax avoidance

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Ethiopia is making the wrong choices in its relations with the U.S.

The Jimma Industrial park in Jima, Ethiopia, December 8, 2018. /Xinhua Editor's note: Tom Fowdy is a British political and international relations analyst and a graduate of Durham and Oxford u

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Pragmatism and compromise necessary to safeguarding Korean peace

President Moon Jae-in of the Republic of Korea (ROK) waves from the steps of his plane as he leaves for the U.S. at Seoul Air Base in Seongnam, south of Seoul, May 19, 2021. /AFP Editor's note

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Obama Was a ‘Parasite’ Who Oversaw 'Pilfering of Talent, Resources’ From Dems, Claims New Book

“Battle for the Soul: Inside the Democrats’ Campaigns to Defeat Donald Trump” is a new book by political journalist for The Atlantic Edward-Isaac Dovere, which will be

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Virtuo raises $96M for its streamlined take on car rentals

Car ownership has become pricey and untenable in many towns and cities in Europe: between congestion charges to reduce emissions, parking fees, and traffic, many consumers opt instead to use public tr

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Google unpauses privacy-focused changes to Chrome UA strings

Google is resuming work on reducing the granularity of information presented in user-agent strings on its Chrome browser, it said today — picking up an effort it put on

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OpenUnit raises a $1M seed round to be the online face of self-storage

How are mom-and-pop self-storage facilities meant to keep up with the tech offered by the massive, ever-growing chains?That’s a key part of the idea behind OpenUnit, a team I first wrote about i

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Google revives RSS

Chrome, at least in its experimental Canary version on Android (and only for users in the U.S.), is getting an interesting update in the coming weeks that brings back RSS, the once-popular format for

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Biden is being influenced by Trump's 'China, China, China' mantra

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 25, 2021. /Getty Editor's note: Azhar Azam works in a private orga

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Google Cloud Run gets committed use discounts and new security features

Cloud Run, Google Cloud’s serverless platform for containerized applications, is getting committed use discounts. Users who commit to spending a given amount on using Cloud Run for a year will g

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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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Daily Crunch: The early-stage tech talent crunch is real

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here.By now everyone is familiar with the tech world’s talent crunch: Dev

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Facebook ordered not to apply controversial WhatsApp T&Cs in Germany

The Hamburg data protection agency has banned Facebook from processing the additional WhatsApp user data that the tech giant is granting itself access to under a mandatory update to WhatsApp’s t

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How did U.S. mismatch its China policy with its national interest?

/VCG Editor's note: Zhou Wenxing is a research fellow at Huazhi Institute for Global Governance, Nanjing University and former Asia Fellow at John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard Univ

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Nothing’s first product, the Ear 1 earbud, launches in June

Say what you will, Nothing has been doing a fine job milking its upcoming launch for all it’s worth. The company has spent the last several month’s teasing the arrival of its first product. The launch

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Bird reportedly prepares to go public via SPAC, aims for 2023 profitability

Micromobility startups are following the lead of EV companies going public via mergers with special purpose acquisition companies, a financial instrument that came back en vogue in 2020.Bird Rides, th

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South Africa losing cultural landmarks like Apartheid Museum to COVID

A pair of boxing gloves worn by Nelson Mandela at the height of the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa lie under a thick layer of dust in a darkened room, the silence broken only by the thud