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On Wednesday, Russia began throttling Twitter as a way of pressuring the San Francisco-based company to remove over 3,100 posts found to be in violation of Russian law. Specifically, this includes 450 instances of child pornography and more than 2,500 incitements to underage suicide. Twitter responded by saying it was …

“We are aware of reports that Twitter is being intentionally slowed down broadly and indiscriminately in Russia due to apparent content removal concerns,” the San Francisco-based company said in a statement on Wednesday, adding it was “deeply concerned by increased attempts to block and throttle online public conversation.” Twitter stock …

As Germany prepares for a string of state elections this weekend, with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) sitting on a one-year low of 30 percent in the opinion polls, the dead-cat strategy has been invoked in an attempt to avoid disaster at the ballot box. The tactic, devised by …

Just 36 percent of respondents in a USA Today/Ipsos poll released on Friday described Floyd’s death as murder, down from 60 percent last June. The racial divide in how the May 25 tragedy is viewed is startling, with 64 percent of black poll participants and just 28 percent of whites …

The New York State Health Department made drastic changes to a July report which examined how the virus spread through the state’s nursing homes, after an intervention from the governor’s aides, according to the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.  Citing documents and officials familiar with the matter, …

“As with all public libraries the New York Public Library does not censor books,” spokeswoman Angela Montefinise said of the Seuss books in question, the New York Post reported on Wednesday. Six titles – including ‘If I Ran the Zoo,’ ‘And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street’ …

Speaking on Monday about recent Covid-19 cases that are linked to breaches of anti-coronavirus restrictions, Ardern aimed mighty jabs at rule breakers. Ruling out punishments for the violators handed out directly by the government, and citing the separation of police and state, the PM urged the public to take the …

Footage posted online showed protesters fighting with Lebanese security services outside a military court in the capital on Monday after judges ruled that six demonstrators in Tripoli had committed “terrorism and theft.” Some 30 people have been arrested in the city of Tripoli in recent weeks after attending demonstrations against …

“On the advice of our public health experts, the whole of Victoria will move to circuit-breaker action from 11:59pm tonight until 11:59pm on Wednesday,” Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews said in a lengthy statement on Friday, calling the move a “short, sharp blast.” A document from Andrews’ office detailed what would …

“On the advice of our public health experts, the whole of Victoria will move to circuit-breaker action from 11:59pm tonight until 11:59pm on Wednesday,” Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews said in a lengthy statement on Friday, calling the move a “short, sharp blast.” A document from Andrews’ office detailed what would …