Coinbase to allow users to use card via Apple, Google wallets
Coinbase Global Inc launched a tie-up with Apple and Alphabet Inc’s Google on Tuesday that will allow users to add cards from their accounts to the payment apps run ...
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Cruise urges US president to back autonomous vehicle deployment boost
Cruise LLC, the autonomous vehicle (AV) company majority-owned by General Motors Co, has urged President Joe Biden to back efforts to speed thousands of self-driving cars to US roads, saying ...
OPEC, Russia seen gaining more power with Shell Dutch ruling
Climate activists who scored big against Western majors last week had some unlikely cheerleaders in the oil capitals of Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Russia.
Defeats in the courtroom and ...
New coral reef restoration technology aims to reverse climate change damage
By Cassandra Garrison
Marine scientist Deborah Brosnan remembers “feeling like a visitor at an amazing party” on her diving trips to a bay near the Caribbean island of Saint Barthelemy ...
‘Sea snot’ outbreak off Turkish coast poses threat to marine life
By Yesim Dikmen and Mehmet Emin Caliskan
A thick, slimy layer of so-called “sea snot” is spreading in Turkey’s Sea of Marmara to the south of Istanbul, posing a ...
Big oil may get more climate lawsuits after Shell ruling -lawyers, activists
By Shadia Nasralla and Tom Hals
A Dutch court’s decision to force Royal Dutch Shell to make deeper, faster cuts to its climate warming emissions on the basis of ...
Gun attack on Ugandan ex-army chief kills daughter, driver – military
Gunmen opened fire at a car carrying a Ugandan government minister in an attempted assassination on Tuesday, wounding the former army commander and killing his daughter and driver, the military ...
Turkey launches probe into 1996 killing after mob leader’s claims
An Istanbul prosecutor’s office said on Tuesday it launched an investigation into the murder of a Turkish Cypriot journalist 25 years ago, after a mob leader said last month the ...
Ten years after Breivik attacks, survivors seek to confront far-right extremism
Nearly 10 years after Anders Behring Breivik tried to kill her on the Norwegian island of Utoeya, Astrid Hoem is back there to explain to a group of teenagers how she ...
Germany, U.S. hold talks in Washington on Nord Stream 2
Germany and the United States are holding talks in Washington to try to resolve a row over the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said on Tuesday.
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Germany lowers coronavirus risk level as cases fall, Malaysia orders new lockdown
Germany’s public health agency lowered the coronavirus risk level to “high” from “very high” on Tuesday for the first time in 2021, reflecting a fall in the number of new ...
Germany, France, Dutch want more say over tech giants’ start-up deals
Draft rules targeted at Alphabet unit Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple should be beefed up to allow regulators to vet their acquisitions of start-up rivals, Germany, France and the Netherlands ...
Netanyahu legal challenge to rival’s PM bid is spurned
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s party on Tuesday challenged the legality of a bid by a rival rightist to head a new Israeli government, but the last-gasp attempt at extending ...
Sicilian mafia ‘people-slayer’ released after 25 years in jail
Sicilian Mafia turncoat Giovanni Brusca, the man who detonated the bomb that killed judge Giovanni Falcone in 1992, has been released from jail after serving a 25-year sentence, causing grief and ...
Players, fans will both suffer from ‘too much football’
Bayern Munich striker Robert Lewandowski said the packed soccer schedule over the next few years is a major problem as players will struggle to deliver their best when there is ...
Top seeds take centre stage at Roland Garros (Order of play)
Order of play on the main showcourts on the third day of the French Open on Tuesday (play begins at 0900 GMT unless specified, prefix number denotes seeding):
COURT PHILIPPE CHATRIER (1000 ...
US colleges in dire need of international students says Politico
A steadily growing pipeline of cash for U.S. colleges and universities from international students was abruptly cut off with the pandemic, and higher education institutions are now looking to ...
Nestlé, with too many ‘unhealthy’ products, seeks new strategy
Nestle said on Monday it was working on updating its nutrition and health strategy after the Financial Times reported an internal document at the food giant described a large portion ...
Saudi Arabia defends decision to restrict mosques speaker volume
Saudi Arabia‘s Islamic Affairs minister on Monday defended an order to lower the volume on mosque loudspeakers, saying families had been complaining that competing speakers were keeping their children ...
Peru revises and triples its pandemic death toll, now worst in the world per capita
Peru almost tripled its official COVID-19 death toll to 180,764, following a government review, making it the country with the worst death rate per capita, according to Johns Hopkins University data.
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Serena survives scare in French Open’s first night match (Day 2 highlights)
American Serena Williams survived a scare in the first ever night session match at the French Open as she edged out Romanian Irina-Camelia Begu 7-6(6) 6-2 in the first round ...
Is it all Greek to you? Coronavirus variants get new names
By Emma Farge
Coronavirus variants with clunky, alphanumeric names have now been assigned the letters of the Greek Alphabet in a bid to simplify discussion and pronunciation while avoiding stigma.
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Russia’s Prague embassy stronghold cleared out in spy dispute
By Robert Muller
A Russian charter plane took home dozens of Russian embassy staff on Monday, abruptly ending what Czech officials say was a decades-old practice by Moscow of using ...
Denmark to reconsider exclusion of J&J and AstraZeneca shots
Denmark’s government on Monday asked the country’s health authorities to reconsider a decision to exclude Johnson & Johnson’s and AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 shots from its vaccination programme.
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