ShareBy Aluta News Oct. 25, 2022 India’s competition watchdog has imposed a fine of 9.36 billion rupees ($113.4 million) on Google parent Alphabet. The country’s competition commission accused Google of abusing the dominant role of the Google Play Store by forcing app developers there to use Google’s payment system forContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Oct. 24, 2022 President Emmanuel Macron and Pope Francis held nearly an hour of private talks on Monday. The duo discussed mainly the crisis in Ukraine and prospects for peace. Macron, accompanied by his wife Brigitte, arrived at the Vatican and was greeted by an honour guardContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Oct. 24, 2022 South Africa’s largest public sector unions on Monday gave notice of its intention to strike after rejecting a three per cent wage offer from the government. The Public Servants Association (PSA), which said it had more than 235,000 members, could embark on a nationalContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Oct. 21, 2022 Out of power for a matter of months, comeback king Boris Johnson is once again being touted as the new leader of the governing Conservative Party and Britain’s prime minister. The man who was forced to quit as prime minister in July, brought downContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Oct. 21, 2022 Uganda’s Ministry of Health on Friday said the country has eliminated sleeping sickness as a public health problem. The ministry in a tweet attributed the success to intense surveillance, tsetse fly control, and individual case management. The ministry said the disease was a bigContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Oct. 19, 2022 Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday said he was introducing martial law in four Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine that Moscow claimed as its own territory. In televised remarks to members of his Security Council, Putin also instructed the government to set up a specialContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Oct. 18, 2022 Zhao Chenxin, Deputy Head of China National Development and Reform Commission, has assured of the country’s plan to advance its foreign investment. Zhao gave the assurance at the news conference on sideline of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) inContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Oct. 10, 2022 Russia fired 75 missiles at various cities across Ukraine on Monday, according to a top official in Kiev as of midday. Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, who gave the figure on Telegram, said 41 of themContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Oct. 5, 2022 Tesla CEO Elon Musk has proposed to proceed with a deal to buy Twitter at the original price of 44 billion U.S. dollars, according to a financial filing. The offer came ahead of a trial scheduled at the Delaware Chancery Court on Oct. 17,Continue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Oct. 5, 2022 London’s Old Bailey Court on Wednesday said Jaswant Singh Chail, 20, who threatened to kill late Queen Elizabeth at her Windsor Castle home in 2021, would go on trial in 2023. Chail was charged under Britain’s Treason Act. He was accused of threatening toContinue Reading
