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Turkey’s president has warned the US that it will lose a valuable ally unless it changes its approach to the case of an American held in Turkey on espionage charges. Washington is threatening Ankara with sanctions over the issue. Talking to Turkish media about US threats of sanctions if Ankara doesn’t release Pastor Andrew Brunson, […]
The largest cryptocurrency, bitcoin, is a commodity and not a payment system, according to Visa’s chief executive. Visa will also not give bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies a platform for wire transfers and exchanges. “I don’t view it as payment system player,” CEO Alfred Kelly told CNBC. “We at Visa won’t process transactions that are cryptocurrency-based. […]
AP New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said on Thursday that he is considering challenging the constitutionality of the GOP tax law in court. He’s also taking action to help New Yorkers circumvent a new cap on state and local tax deductions. But time is running out. The tax law will take effect on Monday. New […]
Steve Bannon and his associates at Breitbart News planned a broad financial, legal, and editorial campaign to damage Twitter, according to documents obtained by BuzzFeed News. The campaign, waged in the months before Bannon left his job as chair of Breitbart and took control of Donald J. Trump’s presidential run in August 2016, sought to […]
Published time: 20 Nov, 2017 22:56 Hungary is facing a frontal assault from US financier George Soros, the vice-chairman of the ruling Fidesz party has said, after the billionaire released a statement accusing the Hungarian government of “lying” about his agenda. Fidesz vice-chairman Gergely Gulyas pushed back against Soros’ claims that his government was spreading […]
WARNING: The following article contains spoilers from episode four of Game of Thrones season seven. Last night’s episode titled ‘The Spoils of War’ ended on an almighty cliffhanger after a spectacular battle left Jaime Lannister (played by Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) and Serr Bronn of Blackwater (Jerome Flynn) feared dead. And in a trailer released by HBO […]
Microsoft has proven itself to be an unlikely vigilante in the ongoing international cyberespionage story. The company started out suing the hacking group Fancy Bear for using domain names that violated Microsoft’s trademarks, and in doing so unearthed an extensive network of command-and-control servers. Via domains such as ‘livemicrosoft.net’ or ‘rsshotmail.com’, hackers are able to […]
Flickr When two Netflix titles, Boon Joon-Ho’s “Ojka” and Noah Baumbach’s “The Meyerowitz Stories,” were added to the esteemed competition lineup for this year’s Cannes Film Festival, it was another notch in the belt for the streaming giant. But it was also another moment when the movie industry felt that Netflix is hurting the theatrical movie […]
