Five million residents of a central Chinese city started home confinement Tuesday in a new lockdown to curb the spread of the highly transmissible Omicron variant of the coronavirus, according to state media. Beijing is on high alert for new outbreaks as it prepares to host the Winter Olympics next month, sticking to a “zero-Covid” …
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The company Cyber Ninjas, which controversially reviewed 2020 presidential election ballots in Maricopa County, Arizona, announced Thursday that it is “shutting down.” A report released by election officials in Maricopa County found the recount of ballots in the county was based on around 80 misleading, inaccurate, or outright false claims made by GOP lawmakers and …
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The FBI is still searching for people who stormed the US Capitol on January 6. So is Kay. The 34-year-old from Washington state is one of a number of online sleuths tracking down participants in the attack on Congress. “We’re somewhere between journalists and law enforcement,” said Kay, who declined to use her last name …
The CES tech show announced Friday that the Las Vegas event next week will go on in person but will end one day early amid the surge in Covid-19 infections. Many high-profile participants like Amazon, BMW and Microsoft have pulled out or reduced their footprint at one of the world’s largest trade fairs due to …
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Chinese telecom giant Huawei said on Friday its annual revenue had fallen by nearly a third from the previous year, as it continued to be weighed down by US sanctions that have hit its smartphone sales. Huawei has been caught in the crossfire of a US-China trade and technology rivalry after the administration of former …
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Afghan businessman Shoaib Barak is struggling to pay his workers and suppliers, unable to access funds from a banking system crippled by the freezing of the nation’s overseas assets. They, in turn, can’t pay their bills — and so the country’s economic woes trickle down and hurt everyone along an unbroken chain of misery. “I …
A Moscow court on Thursday heard a case against a leading rights group Memorial that could shut down the veteran organisation, closing off a year marked by a major crackdown on civil society. Memorial’s Human Rights Centre, which campaigns for political prisoners and other disadvantaged groups, is accused of violating Russia’s law on “foreign agents” …
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A new kind of chip shortage has hit Japanese supply chains, with McDonald’s forced to ration fries in the country as Covid-19 and floods in Canada squeeze potato imports. McDonald’s Japan said it will only sell small-sized French fries for a week from Friday to avoid shortages. “Due to large-scale flooding near the Port of …
Hong Kong’s strict adherence to a zero-Covid strategy is damaging the hub’s aviation industry and “killing” Cathay Pacific, a major shareholder in the city’s home carrier told local media. Following Beijing’s lead, Hong Kong has maintained some of the world’s strictest quarantine measures and travel curbs, which has kept the city coronavirus-free but internationally isolated. …
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After more than a decade of tame inflation, a wave of prices increases has washed through the US economy, affecting cars, housing and food and shaking policymakers intent on selling a reassuring message of recovery. President Joe Biden has made it a priority to fight the inflation hitting American families, but it is Federal Reserve …
