Kolkata: The European Union (EU) has postponed the implementation of stringent traceability requirements for polished diamond imports, pushing the deadline from March 2025 to January 1, 2026, bringing some relief to the Indian diamond trade, which cuts and polishes nine out of 10 natural diamonds globally. The move will also improve the situation in Surat,…
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, will not hesitate to seek the US President Trump‘s intervention if the European Union unfairly targets the company with its digital regulations, according to Meta‘s global policy director Joel Kaplan.Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, Kaplan said Meta would alert the U.S. government to any discriminatory…
Apple and Fortnite maker are fighting or rather fighting again. This time the tussle is not over App Store billing, but over a porn app. And caught in this crossfire is Reddit. In a series of posts, Fortnite maker Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney slammed Apple for not removing the Reddit app from iOS App…
Co leader of German far right party AfD Alice Weidel speaks during an AfD election campaign in Magdeburg, Germany, Monday, Dec. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi) Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party, a right-wing populist movement, has made headlines for its hardline stance on migration and increasingly radical rhetoric. Recent developments reveal how the AfD’s…
Mikheil Kavelashvili (Picture credit: AP) Georgian lawmakers on Saturday elected former soccer player and anti-Western politician Mikheil Kavelashvili as the country’s new president. Kavelashvili’s election comes amidst ongoing protests sparked by the government’s decision to pause the country’s bid to join the European Union.Kavelashvili, a former soccer player known for his critical stance toward the…
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Russian President Vladimir Putin held a telephonic exchange on Friday, discussing ways to end the Ukraine war for an hour, according to a Bloomberg report citing sources.The first direct communication between the leaders in almost two years comes as Ukraine braces for the third full winter under Russian attack, with…
The logo of Temu, an e-commerce platform owned by PDD Holdings, is seen on a mobile phone displayed in front of its website, in this illustration picture taken April 26, 2023. REUTERS/Florence Lo/Illustration/File Photo Chinese online shopping giants Shein and Temu have changed the face fashion ecommerce in the Europe and US. In the United…
United Kingdom considered an “aquatic raid” on a warehouse in Netherlands in order to seize Covid vaccine AstraZeneca during the height of the pandemic, former and then UK PM Boris Johnson revealed in his memoir ‘Unleashed.’ In his memoir, Johnson said that he “had commissioned some work on whether it might be technically feasible to…
Google and Apple have recently faced major legal defeats in the European Union (EU), highlighting the growing scrutiny of their business practices globally. Both tech giants lost separate court fights in the EU, resulting in billions of euros in fines and potential ramifications for their operations in the region. The setbacks follow a string of…
NEW DELHI: The rush to beat the deadline for higher US tariffs on Chinese goods has aggravated a container shortage in India as several empty ones were shipped to China as its exports to US are getting front-loaded. The Biden administration had announced its decision to impose higher tariffs on several Chinese goods – ranging…
