For gay stars of banned condom ad, no let-up in Poland’s LGBT rights clampdown
For Jakub Kwiecinski, a ban by Poland’s public broadcaster on a condom advert featuring him and his husband has come as no surprise, but it...
China says opposes U.S. restrictions on Chinese students
China on Friday said it resolutely opposes any U.S. government move to restrict Chinese students from studying abroad, and urged the United States to do...
Putin appeals to Russians’ core values as vote on extending term looms
President Vladimir Putin appealed to what he termed Russians’ core values on Friday, the country’s national day, as he sought to rally support for a...
Trump on Juneteenth rally: ‘Think about it as a celebration’
President Donald Trump defended his decision to resume campaign rallies next week on a day marking the end of U.S. slavery and at the site...
Tesla at $1,000: too much too soon for some analysts
Top Wall Street brokerages Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley downgraded their ratings on Tesla Inc saying the electric carmaker’s shares were overpriced, two days after...
Iran asks French experts to read black boxes of downed jet: official
Iranian investigators have asked France’s BEA air accident agency to read black boxes from a downed Ukrainian jetliner, Iran’s envoy to the United Nations aviation...
Take Five: Pump it up
“Rise and rise again until lambs become lions,” runs an oft-quoted line from the 2010 film ‘Robin Hood’. The motto is being taken seriously by...
Facebook’s Giphy deal draws UK competition watchdog’s attention
Facebook’s acquisition of popular GIF website Giphy is being scrutinised by Britain’s competition watchdog for possibly reducing competition in the United Kingdom....
Ukraine president’s wife tests positive for coronavirus
Olena, the wife of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said on Friday she had tested positive for coronavirus but her husband and their two children had...
Rain stops play for COVID-hit Paris cafes
Guillaume Artru, co-owner of a Paris restaurant, has seen his business battered first by COVID-19, then by one of Europe’s strictest lockdown regimes, and now...