PARIS—Digital payment services developed by U.S. tech giants such as Apple and Alphabet’s Google risk reinforcing their market power by giving them greater sway over consumers’ data, France’s antitrust authority said on Thursday. The remarks, part of a 127-page opinion, follow a one-year inquiry into new payment technologies and shine a light on the watchdog’s…
Chinese National Admits Exporting US Marine Tech to China
A Chinese national has admitted to illegally exporting more than $100,000 in U.S. marine technology for a Chinese military research institute.
Spain Recovers 24 Bodies From Migrant Boat Off Canaries
BARCELONA, Spain—The bodies of 24 sub-Saharan migrants, among them two minors, who are believed to have died of thirst and hunger as they tried to cross from the west coast of Africa to the Canary Islands, were brought to land by Spain’s Maritime Rescue Service Wednesday evening. Their wooden boat was first spotted by a…
Japan Expresses Concern Over China’s Military Expansion
Japan expressed concern over the Chinese regime’s military expansion and its activities in the Indo-Pacific in a foreign policy report released on April 27. Beijing’s strengthening of its military and activities in the East and South China Seas “has become a serious security concern for the region and the international community,” states the “Diplomatic Bluebook…
Four Killed at German Hospital, Employee Arrested
BERLIN—Police in Germany detained a 51-year-old hospital employee and opened a murder inquiry after four people were found dead and another seriously injured at a clinic near Berlin. Police said they had arrived around 9 p.m. (local time) on Wednesday to find people with fatal injuries in several rooms of a ward at the Oberlin…
Astronaut Michael Collins, Apollo 11 Pilot, Dead of Cancer
Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins, who orbited the moon alone while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made their historic first steps on the lunar surface, died Wednesday. He was 90. Collins died of cancer, his family said in a statement: “Mike always faced the challenges of life with grace and humility, and faced this, his…
New York Legislature Begins to Repeal Gov. Cuomo’s Pandemic Orders
New York’s Democrat-led legislature repealed several of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s pandemic directives on April 28. The state’s Assembly and Senate voted to repeal parts of a series of executive orders Cuomo issued over the course of the pandemic of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known as the novel coronavirus. The repealed provisions include…
Boeing Posts $537 Million Loss in Q1, Less Than a Year Ago
Boeing Co. reported a wider than expected first-quarter loss on Wednesday, although revenue met Wall Street forecasts as the company generated cash by delivering more new airliners than it did a year ago. Boeing lost $561 million—or $537 million after accounting for a loss attributable to a noncontrolling interest—as the COVID-19 pandemic continued to hurt…
‘Torso Killer’ Pleads Guilty in 1974 Cold-Case Murders
NEWARK—For years, a savage murderer called the “Torso Killer” dribbled out confessions to a New Jersey detective, closing cold cases into the brutal deaths of four young women that dated back to the late 1960s. But there was one unsolved case the notorious serial killer would never admit to: The slayings of 17-year-old Mary Ann…
UK Health Secretary Gets AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine
UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock received the first dose of the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday, in a public show of support for the jab which has been suspected of causing life-threatening blood clots. Jonathan Van-Tam, the Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England, administered the jab for Hancock at a vaccination centre in London. “It…
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