A US judge has ruled Google acted illegally to crush its competition and maintain a monopoly on online search and related advertising. The landmark decision on Monday is a major blow to Alphabet, Google’s parent company, and could reshape how technology giants do business. Google was sued by the US Department of Justice in 2020 […]
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Doctors, social workers and librarians are among those in Sweden who have sounded the alarm over a proposal being explored by a government-appointed committee that would force public sector workers to report undocumented people to authorities. The proposal – which has been referred to as the “snitch law” by some – was among the many
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Chief Justice Obaidul Hassan handed in his resignation on Saturday, two days after Bangladesh’s new interim government led by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus was sworn in. The resignation came after fresh protests broke out on the premises of the Supreme Court, with demonstrators calling for top judges to step down. Bangladesh’s Chief Justice Obaidul Hassan
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American gymnast Jordan Chiles will have to return her bronze medal from the women’s artistic gymnastics floor exercise final at the Paris Games, the International Olympic Committee announced on Sunday. The decision comes less than 24 hours after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruled the IOC should strip Chiles of her Olympic bronze,
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Anggy Diaz and Jared Dicus married in October 2022. Just a few months later, Dicus brutally murdered Diaz. A Texas man has been sentenced to four decades in prison after brutally murdering his wife, just months after the couple married. District Court Judge Gary Chaney sentenced Jared James Dicus, 23, to 40 years behind bars
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Police chiefs announce deployment of extra 2,200 riot officers as list of 60 immigration centres circulated online Immigration lawyers have been warned to take extra security measures or stay away from work amid far-right threats to target their firms, with legal groups blaming political attacks on the profession for fuelling abuse. The Law Society and
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Rolls-Royce is to give every employee shares worth about £700 in the company following a revival. The engineering giant announced in an internal memo that it would gift 150 shares to its 42,000 workers worldwide. The news comes after the Derby-based company, which makes jet engines, announced profits of £1.1bn in the first half of
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Dancehall entertainer Vybz Kartel, born Adidja Palmer, and his three co-accused were set free on Wednesday after Jamaica’s Court of Appeal decided against retrying them for the 2011 murder of Clive “Lizard” Williams. The three-judge panel, comprising Justices Marva McDonald-Bishop, Paulette Williams, and David Fraser, delivered the unanimous decision. Before the ruling, an abbreviated summary
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A jury on Friday found that Abbott Laboratories’ (ABT.N) specialized formula for premature infants caused an Illinois girl to develop a dangerous bowel disease, ordering the healthcare company to pay $495 million in damages. The verdict in St. Louis, Missouri state court comes in the first trial against the company out of hundreds of similar
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An alternative healer has been found guilty of gross negligence manslaughter following the death of a woman at one of his workshops. Hongchi Xiao, 61, of Cloudbreak in California, was convicted after 71-year-old Danielle Carr-Gomm died from complications related to diabetes in 2016. The jury at Winchester Crown Court was told she had stopped taking
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