MILAN — Authorities in Rome have arrested 14 migrants from nine countries for alleged involvement in unrest in a repatriation center following the death of a migrant from the African nation of Guinea, police said Monday. After the body was discovered Sunday morning, migrants in the center began setting mattresses on fire and throwing objects … Read more
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — More than 100 Rohingya immigrants have escaped from a detention center in Malaysia after a protest, with one confirmed killed in a road accident, officials said Friday. This was the second time in two years that such a breakout occurred. In 2022, 528 Rohingya refugees staged a protest and escaped from … Read more
X, formerly known at Twitter, is building its content moderation team back up, but not completely. According to Bloomberg, the company is hiring 100 employees for a “Trust and Safety center of excellence” in Austin, TX. After Elon Musk took over the platform in 2022, he laid off around 80 percent of the company and … Read more
Chevrolet Cruise autonomous vehicles sit parked in a lot on June 08, 2023 in San Francisco, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images News | Getty Images Culture issues, ineptitude and poor leadership at General Motors’ Cruise autonomous vehicle unit were at the center of regulatory oversights and coverup concerns that have plagued the company since … Read more
DAVOS, Switzerland — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is headlining a frenzied first full day of the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in the Swiss ski resort of Davos, where top officials from the United States, the European Union, China, the Middle East and beyond will also be prominent Tuesday. Zelenskyy will endeavor to keep his … Read more
Nicola Peltz shows off her resilience in the trailer for her directorial debut Lola. The 29-year-old actress takes center stage in the drama, which highlights the titular character’s relationship with her beloved brother Arlo (Luke David Blumm) and their cruel mother Mona (Virginia Madsen). The trailer sets the scene and introduces an unexpected challenge that … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave U.S. intelligence officials offered fresh details this week to bolster their November assessment that Hamas militants used the al-Shifa Hospital complex in the northern Gaza Strip as a command center, a public statement that preceded by hours a controversial assault on the complex by Israel’s military. The … Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors on Tuesday recommended a six-month term of imprisonment for a man at the center of a right-wing conspiracy theory about the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol — an attack that he has admitted to joining. Ray Epps, who is scheduled to be sentenced next Tuesday, pleaded guilty … Read more
Queen Latifah, Dionne Warwick, and the Bee Gees’ Barry Gibb were among the 2023 Kennedy Center honorees at a ceremony that took place on December 3. Now, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has shared footage from the show. The ceremony in Washington, D.C., hosted this year by 2017 honoree Gloria Estefan, … Read more
Samsung said on Wednesday that it has verified the use of Compute Express Link (CXL) memory operation in a real user environment with open-source software provider Red Hat. CXL is a unified interface standard, with the relevant consortium being formed in 2019 that continues to update the standard, which connects various processors and memory devices … Read more