April 16, 2021

Google Introduces Special Feature To Aid Vaccine-Finding

April 16, 2021 12:34 am

Google on Thursday announced that it has gone international with tools designed to help people find Covid-19 vaccination locations, as the US internet titan ramps up efforts to fight the pandemic.

The internet superpower also plans to launch a cloud-based ‘virtual agent‘ that people can use to schedule vaccination appointments or get information on the topic in some 28 languages using chat, text messages, or phone calls.

Google had last week announced that it will provide 250,000 vaccine doses to ‘countries in need‘ along with adding the ability for people to find sites for the jab …

France Urge Citizens To Leave Pakistan Amid Riots

April 16, 2021 12:24 am

The French embassy in Pakistan on Thursday urged all French nationals and companies in Pakistan to temporarily leave the country after violent anti-France protests paralysed large parts of the country this week.

In an email it sent to its citizens; ‘Due to the serious threats to French interests in Pakistan, French nationals and French companies are advised to temporarily leave the country,’ the French Embassy.

‘The departures will be carried out by existing commercial airlines.’

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Anti-French sentiment has been simmering for months in Pakistan since the government of …

UK Govt Distances Itself From ‘Failed’ Newcastle Sale

April 16, 2021 12:17 am

The government of the United Kingdom has denied any involvement ‘at any point’ over a Saudi Arabia-backed group’s failed bid to buy Newcastle United.

Officials However acknowledged that meetings had taken place between the Foreign Office and the Premier League.

According to sources from Downing Street, a senior aide was asked to check on the progress of the deal but not intervene.

This is coming on the heels of a report that the prime minister was contacted after the £300m deal ran into difficulties.

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A government spokesman said: ‘While

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15 Sailors Kidnapped At Gulf Of Guinea Finally Released

April 16, 2021 12:08 am

The 15 crew members who were kidnapped from a chemical tanker off the coast of Benin more than a month ago have been released, the ship’s Dutch owners disclosed on Wednesday.

According to a statement released by De Poli Tankers, they said the company was ‘delighted to report that all fifteen of its officers and crew abducted from its vessel Davide B in the Gulf of Guinea on March 11 have been released’.

‘The seafarers are safe and can return to their families in Eastern Europe and The Philippines and can start recovering from this deeply concerning situation,’ the …

France Urged To Try Ex-Rwandan Officer For Genocide

April 16, 2021 12:02 am

Anti-terrorist prosecutors in France have asked for a Rwandan former policeman to be made to stand trial in Paris for genocide and crimes against humanity in his homeland in 1994.

The Ex-Police chief, Philippe Hategekimana has been in detention in France for two years since his extradition from Cameroon, where he was arrested following a warrant from France to that effect in 2018.

He is being accused of putting up checkpoints where ethnic Tutsis were slaughtered in the southern town of Ntyazo, and of complicity in the murder of the town’s mayor Narcisse Nyagasaza.