JAMES ROBERTO
Amazon closes $8.5B deal to acquire Hollywood studio MGM.
Amazon announced it has closed its acquisition of Hollywood studio MGM. Two days after European regulators said the deal “would not significantly reduce competition”...
Council of Europe expels Russia from human rights body.
STRASBOURG, France: The Council of Europe on Wednesday expelled Russia from the continent’s foremost human rights body in an unprecedented move over Moscow’s invasion...
War censorship exposes Putin’s leaky internet controls
BOSTON: Long before waging war on Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin was working to make Russia’s internet a powerful tool of surveillance and social control...
Russian airstrike hits base in western Ukraine kills 35
LVIV, Ukraine: — Ukrainian authorities said Russian missiles pounded a military training base near Ukraine’s western border with NATO member Poland, killing 35 people....
Biden bans Russian oil, warns of higher prices at US pumps.
WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden announced that the U.S. will ban all Russian oil imports. Toughening the toll on Russia’s economy in retaliation for its...
Bank Negara, Bank of Thailand launch cross-border QR payment linkage
Kuala Lumpur: A cross-border QR payment linkage between Thailand and Malaysia was dispatched by the Bank Negara Malaysia and The Bank Of Thailand (BOT)...
Export bans on medical supplies leave many countries vulnerable to COVID-19
The restrictions of overseas shipments of critical medical supplies and protective gears imposed by several nations have gained global criticism as these drastic moves...