This morning, the developers of third-party Twitter clients Tweetbot, Twitterific, Tweetings and Talon banded together to highlight upcoming API changes that could potentially break the way their apps work. As you might expect, their collective user base — a base largely made up of folks who need more out of …
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Air France strike hits flights as French brace for rail stoppages
PARIS (Reuters) – Air France grounded just under a third of flights on Saturday as staff staged a walkout over pay, and travelers also braced for a fresh wave of train strikes starting later in the day, crippling much of France’s transport network. The industrial action at France’s flag carrier …
Read More »Brazil's Lula to surrender to police
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionSupporters blocked Lula’s car Supporters of ex-Brazilian President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva have stopped him surrendering to police after he agreed to end a stand-off over his prison sentence. Scores of them blocked his car leaving the trade union building near …
Read More »Former Catalan leader Puigdemont to stay in Germany
Catalonia’s former leader Carles Puigdemont will stay in Berlin while a German court considers whether to extradite him to Spain on a charge of misuse of public funds. At a press conference in the city, he said he hoped to eventually return to Belgium to live but only after the end of …
Read More »The government seizes Backpage.com
Visitors to Backpage.com today were greeted by a simple message from the U.S. Department of Justice, noting that it had seized the classifieds site. According to the static image, the move was a joint effort that included the FBI, IRS and the U.S Postal Inspection Service. The action, while brash, perhaps …
Read More »New footage shows McGregor throwing hand truck at bus
Extended video footage has emerged of UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor throwing a hand truck at a bus in New York. McGregor and his entourage entered the Barclays Center in Brooklyn around 1.30pm (6.30pm Irish time) on Thursday and threw a hand truck at a bus transporting fighters from a UFC …
Read More »Fed's Evans says he's optimistic on inflation, wants rate hikes
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Chicago Federal Reserve Bank President Charles Evans, one of the Fed’s most dovish policymakers, said Saturday that he is optimistic inflation will reach the Fed’s 2 percent goal and that slow, gradual rate increases will be appropriate. FILE PHOTO: Charles Evans, president of the Federal Reserve Bank …
Read More »A South Korean President Is Jailed for Graft, but Few Expect Major Change
In the months before Ms. Park was impeached, millions of South Koreans demonstrated in Seoul calling for her ouster, in the biggest popular uprising since protests in 1987 officially ended military dictatorship. Three decades later, government-business collusion had become the nemesis big enough to bring the populace into the streets. …
Read More »Facebook reportedly suspends AggregateIQ over connection to improper data-sharing
AggregateIQ, a Canadian advertising tech and audience intelligence company, has been suspended by Facebook for allegedly being closely connected with SCL, the parent company of Cambridge Analytica, reported the National Observer. News broke late last month that AIQ, which was deeply involved with (and handsomely paid by) pro-Leave Brexit groups, …
Read More »HSE to reimburse Cork mother for medicinal cannabis
The HSE will reimburse the cost of medicinal cannabis sourced in the Netherlands by a Cork mother for the treatment of her eight-year-old daughter’s Dravet’s Syndrome. A spokesperson for Health Minister Simon Harris said the HSE contacted Vera Twomey yesterday to confirm arrangements to cover the cost and that the Minister contacted her ‘to express …
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