DAVOS, Switzerland — This time last year, Juan Guaidó would have been the toast of Davos. Mr. Guaidó, the Venezuelan opposition leader, had just led a wave of popular unrest to win the presidency of Venezuela’s National Assembly and declared himself the true leader of his crisis-ridden country. But as Mr. Guaidó made the rounds […]
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BRUSSELS — The European Union’s new top agricultural official promised on Thursday to introduce anticorruption measures in response to a New York Times investigation that revealed how the bloc’s huge farm subsidy program underwrites a system of political patronage and land grabbing. The $65-billion-a-year fund is one of the world’s largest subsidy schemes. The money, […]
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Prosecutors in Bulgaria announced criminal charges on Thursday against three Russian spies from a secretive assassination unit for the 2015 poisoning of a prominent Bulgarian arms manufacturer. The three men slipped into the country using fake passports and, according to prosecutors, used an organophosphate poison in an attempt “to deliberately kill” the arms manufacturer, Emilian […]
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Verizon may be known for wireless, but the company is set to branch out into the world of finance with a consumer credit card. Angela Lang/CNET T-Mobile provides banking services through its T-Mobile Money offering, but it soon won’t be the only telecom to enter the world of finance. On Thursday Verizon announced that it […]
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The season that never ends. Epic Games Fortnite chapter 2 season 1 continues to go on and on and on. It’s been more than 100 days since the explosive black hole event that kicked off this current season, and it appears players will have to wait a little longer before it ends. One data miner […]
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In life, Nesyamun was an Egyptian priest who sang and chanted words of worship at the Karnak temple in Thebes. In death, he was ritually mummified and sealed in a coffin with the inscription “Nesyamun, true of voice.” Now, some 3,000 years into the afterlife and with the aid of a 3-D-printed vocal tract, Nesyamun […]
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Nesyamun’s coffin, on display at the Leeds City Museum Leeds City Museum At the gigantic Temple of Karnak in ancient Thebes, around 3,000 years ago, a priest named Nesyamun practiced under Egyptian pharaoh Ramses XI. He would feed grain to sacred cattle offered to the God Amun and had the rare opportunity to read and […]
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Apple has launched a new fitness program called Apple Watch Connected. As the name suggests, the program is aimed at helping Apple Watch users stay fit and works by offering incentives for the same. The Apple Watch Connected program tracks users’ workouts and offers incentives. Apple has partnered with gyms at multiple locations and participants […]
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The Galaxy Z Flip could be announced on Feb. 11. Giuseppe Spinelli/LetsGoDigital With the tablet-like Galaxy Fold, Samsung’s embraced the saying, “Go big or go home.” But its second foldable phone — rumored to be called the Galaxy Z Flip — is almost guaranteed to be cheaper, smaller, vertically bending and outfitted with half the cameras. I couldn’t be more […]
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LUANDA, Angola — Isabel dos Santos, Africa’s richest woman and the daughter of Angola’s former president, is set to be charged with committing crimes to enrich herself, after an investigation into embezzlement of millions of dollars from the state oil company, which she once headed, Angolan officials said. Angola’s attorney general, Hélder Pitta Grós, said […]
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