The EU executive on Tuesday launched a never-used procedure against Hungary that could see the Hungarian government stripped of EU funding for falling short on anticorruption and flouting democratic standards.
On Tuesday it was confirmed that Ukraine has received over a dozen Soviet-designed T-72M tanks from the Czech Republic amid a big push among Western powers to bolster Ukrainian defenses amid the continued Russian war, and as the Russians are beginning to cut off much of the east and south.
Google is fighting back against a Brazilian court order to turn over data on all users who searched for specific terms, including the name of a well-known elected official and a busy downtown thoroughfare. (Brief in Portuguese / English*) While we applaud Google for challenging this digital dragnet search in Brazil, it must also stand up for the rights of its users against similar searches in the U.S. and elsewhere.
Inflation poses severe challenges for emerging market economies. The latest example is in Peru, where social unrest spreads across the country, forcing the government to impose a curfew in the capital, Lima, on Tuesday, according to Reuters.
If new permanent military bases are built in eastern Europe to host more American troops in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, U.S. forces should rotate through the new posts, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley said Tuesday.
The post was made two days before it was disclosed on Monday that Elon Musk, chief executive at Tesla, acquired 73.49 million shares, or a 9.2% passive stake of Twitter, becoming the biggest shareholder of the platform.
New investments flooding partisan media platforms are starting to restructure America's internet business around the nation's deepening political divide.
Elon Musk has purchased 9.2 percent of Twitter's stock, he revealed in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Monday. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO bought 73,486,938 Twitter shares on March 14, the filing said.
