... rs reports. US District Court Judge Anthony Trenga in Alexandria, Virginia, on Thursday ordered Manning released because the grand jury hearing the case had concluded. Alexandria City Sheriff Dana Law ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-13
... rs reports. The suspension upends an industry already struggling with cancellations following the outbreak, and comes after Finland’s Viking Line temporarily paused operations of its river ships and o ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-13
US President Donald Trump signed legislation to bar telecom carriers from using US subsidies to purchase network equipment from Huawei Technologies, ZTE Corp. (000063.CN) and other companies deemed a ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-13
... oronavirus. Duterte approved a resolution allowing a raft of measures including bans on mass gatherings, a month of school closures and community quarantining, and threatened to jail local officials w ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-13
... too late". It appears a lot of policy initiatives devised by the government out of good intent have ended up being a bad thing in the public eye. The government itself is partly to blame for its curr ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-12
... akers said. The lawmakers urged the US government to activate as soon as possible the sanction mechanism under Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act, which the US Congress passed and President Dona ...More
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... ities said. Six of the new patients were members of a Hong Kong tour group that traveled to Egypt from Feb. 27 to March 7, the same group where three infection cases were confirmed on Tuesday, accordi ...More
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... a tailspin. Trump announced the travel ban on live television along with emergency funds to boost the US economy, saying: “This is not a financial crisis. This is just a temporary moment of time that ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-12
The National Basketball Association (NBA) said it is suspending the season until further notice after a Utah Jazz player tested positive for the coronavirus, Reuters reports. The test result was repor ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-12
Social media app TikTok is launching a content moderation center in a bid to boost transparency, taking the initiative as it faces scrutiny from US lawmakers over security and data privacy issues. The ...More
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... rs reports. Fellow OPEC member, the United Arab Emirates, followed suit by pledging to accelerate its plans to increase capacity. Oil prices have almost halved since January after the collapse of a pa ...More
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... gatherings. The virus sent the Dow into a bear market for the first time since the 2008 financial crisis as the massive financial stimulus promised by governments around the globe failed to reassure i ...More
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... #MeToo era. The sentence was handed down on Wednesday in Manhattan criminal court by Justice James Burke, with Weinstein’s lawyer Donna Rotunno afterward denouncing the prison term as “obscene” and “c ...More
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Hong Kong has survived through the intense social turmoil and conflicts that spanned the entire second half of 2019. As the protests crisis waned, the city now faces fresh uncertainty in relation to t ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-11
... House bid. Biden, the former vice president under Barack Obama, also captured Missouri and Mississippi on a day when six states made their choices in the race to pick a challenger to Republican Presi ...More
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... of a deal. The rise in the number of US cases of Covid-19 has concerned health officials and spurred calls within Congress for action to expand testing and avert an economic meltdown. Almost three-qu ...More
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... rs reports. Alipay traditionally competes against Tencent Holding’s (00700.HK) WeChat pay in China for mobile payments and financial services, with users using both apps daily for tasks such as paying ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-11
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson defeated his first party rebellion over a government decision to allow Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. to have a role in building the country's 5G phone network, Reut ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-11
Saudi Arabia said it will boost its oil supplies to a record high in April, raising the stakes in a standoff with Russia and effectively rebuffing Moscow’s suggestion for new talks, Reuters reports. T ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-11
... rs reports. Weinstein, 67, faces up to 29 years in prison after being found guilty of sexually assaulting former production assistant Mimi Haleyi in 2006 and raping former aspiring actress Jessica Man ...More
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