SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Microsoft exceeded market forecasts with a good quarterly performance in cloud computing and software on Tuesday, continuing to benefit from the pandemic’s online moving of work, play, shopping, and learning. The US internet behemoth, which revealed last week a bombshell agreement to acquire gaming behemoth ActivisionContinue Reading
On the margins of a White House photo session, US President Joe Biden was overheard on a live microphone Monday calling a Fox News journalist a “dumb son of a bitch.” As journalists exited the room following the presentation, a Fox News reporter, a favourite of conservatives, inquired whether inflationContinue Reading
Reuters reports that The deadline for developers to implement an in-app account termination method has been extended by Apple until June 30. The adjustment, which was announced in October of last year, was supposed to take effect on January 31. In addition to extending the conditions for in-app account cancellation,Continue Reading
Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi spoke by phone with Turkmen Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov on Monday, exchanging views on bilateral relations as well as important regional and international issues. Foreign Minister Qureshi emphasised the need of expanding commercial and economic ties between Pakistan and Turkmenistan. The two ministers agreedContinue Reading
Kohli was “forced” to step down as captain, according to Pakistan’s great former cricketer Shoaib Akhtar. “Virat did not want to stand down, but he was pushed to,” Shoib Akhtar stated, according to media sources. He insisted that he was not in the best of moods at the moment. ViratContinue Reading
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) – Hundreds of accounts linked to supporters of Philippine presidential frontrunner Ferdinand Marcos Jr have been suspended by Twitter, which claimed they had broken its rules on manipulation and spam. A major social media campaign aimed at electing the son and namesake of the country’s former dictatorContinue Reading
HASAKA – According to a military source in the Kurdish-led forces in Syria, 23 Islamic State terrorists were killed in skirmishes when the jihadist organisation raided a jail in the northeastern city of Hasaka on Thursday According to the source, seven members of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) andContinue Reading
BERLIN (AFP) – After discussions in Berlin on Thursday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and European allies claimed that reviving the Iran nuclear agreement was still feasible, but that “time is running short.” Blinken told reporters that negotiators in Vienna seeking to resurrect the 2015 agreement with Tehran hadContinue Reading
ACCRA, Ghana (AFP) – According to the authorities, at least 17 people were killed and 59 were injured in a horrific explosion in a western Ghana town Thursday when a truck carrying explosives collided with a motorcycle. The explosion at Apiate, near the city of Bogoso, some 300 kilometres (180Continue Reading
ANKARA (Reuters) – According to Turkish diplomatic sources, Turkey and Qatar have struck an agreement on providing security at Kabul’s major airport if they are granted the assignment as part of continuing discussions with the Taliban administration. Kabul’s international airport serves as the country’s primary aviation link to the restContinue Reading
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