LONDON (Reuters) – As Moscow has suppressed independent, Russian-language media, YouTube has remained a bastion of online freedom of expression, giving opposition figures a platform to air their views. Now, YouTube in Russia is living on borrowed time. Russian internet monitoring services reported mass outages on Thursday of the online …

KUALA LUMPUR: One-stop food processing and packaging machinery solutions provider, EPB Group Bhd’s initial public offering (IPO) of 19.57 million shares made available for the public has been oversubscribed by 61.08 times. The group received a total of 25,756 applications for 1.21 billion public issue shares worth RM680.3mil from the …

BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s disbanded Move Forward political party on Thursday rallied its supporters to prepare for the launch of its new name and leadership, and urged them to make their case at the ballot box rather than on the streets.Move Forward was the largest force in parliament until the …

CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom: Quantum computing promises society-changing breakthroughs in drug development and tackling climate change, and on an unassuming English high street, the race to unleash the latest tech revolution is gathering pace. The founder of Cambridge-based Riverlane, Steve Brierley, predicts that the technology will have its “Sputnik” breakthrough within …

(Reuters) -Warner Bros Discovery said on Wednesday it wrote down the value of its TV assets due to the uncertainty of fees from cable and satellite distributors and sports rights renewals, sending its shares down nearly 10% in extended trading. The film and entertainment studio, which owns sports network TNT …

PARIS (Reuters) – France’s Sofiane Oumiha said his amateur boxing career had not played out quite as he imagined after his defeat to Erislandy Alvarez in the lightweight final at the Paris Games on Wednesday meant he missed out on Olympic gold for a second time. The Frenchman, a silver …

Vienna, Aug 7, 2024 (AFP) – The Vienna leg of a tour by American mega-star Taylor Swift has been cancelled after Austria arrested an Islamic State sympathiser in connection with an attack plot, the organisers said Wednesday. Authorities had earlier confirmed the arrest of a 19-year-old sympathiser of the armed …

PARIS (Reuters) – A French police officer who fatally shot a teenager of Tunisian heritage during a traffic stop in 2021 was among BMX riders who took part in the Paris Olympics opening ceremony, to the distress of the deceased teenager’s family. Romain Devassine, 26, shot 19-year-old Soheil El Khalfaoui …

WALL Street was set to open higher on Wednesday, aided by a dovish turn by Japan’s top policymaker after a surprise interest rate hike last week partly sparked heavy volatility in global markets. Global equity markets gained after Bank of Japan (BOJ) Deputy Governor Shinichi Uchida said the central bank …