Travellers to the United States will soon have to submit their social media identities, previous telephone numbers and email addresses, a measure that could touch 10 million people per year. According to a State Department plan published Friday, visa seekers — whether visitors or would-be
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Was a leaked internal Facebook memo aimed at justifying the social network’s growth-at-any-cost strategy? Or simply a way to open debate on difficult questions over new technologies? The extraordinarily blunt memo by a high-ranking executive — leaked this week and quickly repudiated by the author and by Facebook — warned that the social network’s goal […]
Moscow on Friday issued tit-for-tat measures against countries that have expelled Russian diplomats in a mass show of support for Britain over the poisoning of a former double agent in England. Russia announced the expulsion of diplomats from 23 countries, almost all of them European Union members, and told Britain to make unspecified “reductions” to […]
Russian authorities hit out at “political manoeuvering” after freestyle wrestlers were denied visas to attend an important competition in the United States. According to Russian Wrestling Federation president Mikhail Mamiashvili, a former Olympic champion, the American “embassy refused to meet” with the wrestlers when they went to request visas. As things stand, they are
The Papacy has denied a widely credited statement to Pope Francis that hell does not exist. Vatican spokesman, Greg Burke said the report by 93 year-old Italian journalist Eugenio Scalfari was not textually correct and that the Pope did not say what was credited to him. Scalfari is the founder of the left-wing daily La […]
Catholic Pontiff, Pope Francis on Thursday washed the feet of 12 prisoners, including a Nigerian at Regina Caeli prison in Rome. According to Vatican News, the twelve men, selected by prison authorities, come from Italy, the Philippines, Morocco, Moldavia, Columbia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. Eight of them are Catholics, while two are Muslims, one is […]
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