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An anti-terrorism probe has been opened into death threats Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz received on social media after his government announced a crackdown on hate preaching and “political Islam.” The Austrian government’s decision to close seven mosques and expel as many as 60 imams as part of their campaign against radicalization has provoked a wave […]
REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez Violence continues to rise in Mexico, setting several homicide records in recent months. Growing insecurity has started to take a toll on local commercial operations. Some businesses are electing to pull out of parts of the country. Grupo Lala, one of Mexico’s 20 largest private companies, shut down operations at a distribution […]
There was no comeback for the Winnipeg Jets this time. There was no cause for an on-ice shimmy from their 260-pound defenceman Dustin Byfuglien. Behind two goals with the score clock ticking down and the quietest the Bell MTS Place has been for a long time, the Jets received a power-play goal from Patrik Laine […]
Fortnite Battle Royale fans are worried that the game is about to close down for good. Rumours have surfaced that Fortnite Battle Royale is shutting down on May 24. As Twinfinite points out, the rumours started when a screengrab of an alleged tweet from the official Fortnite account started doing the rounds online. The post […]
(credit: Aurich Lawson) In light of Internet and social-media privacy landing at the top of major news outlets this week, another major online service announced its own privacy-policy updates on Tuesday. The latest change comes from Steam, the Western world’s largest online PC game seller. According to Steam’s creators at Valve, an updated settings panel will […]
Kmart is owned by Sears Holdings, one of the 15 retailers named by S&P Global Market Intelligence as most likely to go bankrupt in 2018. 166 Kmart and Sears stores are expected to close by the end of April, in addition to the nearly 400 that closed in 2017. We visited a Kmart store in New […]
On June 30th, Uber will sunset its on-demand delivery service for laundry, groceries, flowers and just about anything under 30 pounds that’s not an illegal item or, say, a cute pet. The ride-hailing service has notified its users in an email that it’s shutting down UberRush, which has been doing deliveries for businesses in New […]
URL shorteners can be both useful and fun. Google’s take on the tech launched in 2009, and added a third-party API, the ability to create QR codes and the power to link right to iOS and Android apps. Even Keanu Reeves has a URL shortener named in his honor. Unfortunately, Google is replacing its own […]
(AP Photo/Alejandrino Gonzalez) The world’s largest bottler of Coke shuttered its operations in a town in southwest Mexico on Friday. Coca-Cola Femsa said the shutdown was prompted by constant aggression from organized-crime groups. Attacks on big companies and multinationals have been rare in Mexico in the decade since the country ramped up its war on […]
Drew Angerer/Getty Images President Donald Trump reportedly had a terse reply to White House aides who warned him of the repercussions of not signing the $ 1.3 trillion government spending bill on Friday. “F–k that,” Trump reportedly said, after being reminded that a budget deadline loomed at midnight, and he would be blamed if the […]
