Today’s Headlines

The move plunges the social network into the post-coup politics of the roiled nation, after years of criticism over how Myanmar’s military had used the site. ... read more

New Delhi, angry with Twitter for ignoring request to erase accounts, wants content down within 36 hours when asked. ... read more

President Biden has lifted ban that prevented many green card applicants from entering the country. Biden said that shutting the door on legal immigration did not help the US. ... read more

A global vaccine-sharing program begins. ... read more

The mini electric vehicle being made by China's biggest carmaker is now outselling Tesla two to one. ... read more

New Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel is desperate to shape his newly-inherited band of brothers into a force to be reckoned with. Leading a side who have scaled immense highs and humbling lows, his Atletico test could define his impact. Tuchel had a particular glint in his eye during his ... read more

The legislation could provide a framework for other countries looking to address platforms' dominant position. ... read more

“The fundamental defining feature of American politics is that one coalition has become detached from broad public opinion, from trying to achieve truly national majorities," says Chris Hayes on Congressional Republicans opposing Covid relief despite widespread popularity. ... read more

White House says unclassified US intelligence report on 2018 murder of Saudi journalist will be released 'soon'. ... read more

Georgia lawmakers have passed a bill that would prohibit large cuts to city and county police budgets, handing off the law to the GOP-led Senate as Democrats insist it would violate local autonomy and the state constitution. The measure passed the state house 101-69 on Wednesday, with lawmakers largely ... read more

Australian lawmakers have passed a law that forces tech giants like Facebook and Google fork out money for the media content. Critics argue the bill was watered down after Facebook imposed a week-long ban on Australian news. The much-anticipated bill, which is widely expected to serve as a precedent ... read more

Australian lawmakers have passed a law that forces tech giants like Facebook and Google fork out money for the media content. Critics argue the bill was watered down after Facebook imposed a week-long ban on Australian news. The much-anticipated bill, which is widely expected to serve as a precedent ... read more

“The only way that we are going to raise the minimum wage is through reconciliation or ending the filibuster. In my view, I do not see in the foreseeable future getting significant support from Republicans,” says Sen. Bernie Sanders.  ... read more

A bleak reminder that the recent progress the state has made against the pandemic may be fragile. ... read more

Facebook says it was asked to pay a "potentially exorbitant price" in a dispute with Australia over payments to media groups. Australian lawmakers have now officially passed the newly amended media law. ... read more

Facebook says it was asked to pay a "potentially exorbitant price" in a dispute with Australia over payments to media groups. The company also pledged at least $1 billion to support journalism over the next three years. ... read more

The New York chapter of the oldest US Asian-American civil rights group has denounced critical race theory as actual racism and urged its members to “resist,” as the Biden administration seeks to mandate CRT-based “equity.” CRT “is a hateful, divisive, manipulative fraud,” the Chinese American Citizens Alliance (CACA) of ... read more

Trump-era measure restricting many visa applicants cited need to protect US jobs amid COVID-19 pandemic. ... read more

Researchers are developing new technology to help reduce human-elephant conflicts. ... read more

The defence minister said people should at times provide their own security but it is not that easy. ... read more

The GOP’s blind devotion to Trump, Mike Pence claiming he has a strong relationship with him after the Capitol riot as an example, is Joy’s choice for the Absolute Worst. ... read more

A rebel attack on the government's northern stronghold of Marib threatens mass displacement. ... read more

After the death of the last male member of an indigenous group, his grandchildren take an unusual step. ... read more

The order is intended to help insulate the economy from future shortages of critical imported components by making the United States less reliant on foreign supplies. ... read more

Lizzi Gee and her eight-year-old son Rufus say tap routines are one positive to come out of lockdown. ... read more

A report describes how prisoners of war are used as slave labour to generate money for the regime. ... read more

The world-first law is designed to make the tech giants pay news publishers for content. ... read more

An NGO is training and paying communities in Kenya to catch locusts, so they can be turned into animal feed. ... read more

Women's sport in India is changing, as an emboldened new generation of athletes combat poverty and patriarchy on their way to success. ... read more

Local communities in the US have come up with a novel way to help feed those going hungry. ... read more

Figures show Australians are moving out of the large cities in search of a better quality of life. ... read more

The German government has agreed to extend its military mandate in Afghanistan into 2022. The extension now requires the approval of the Bundestag lower house of parliament.  ... read more

A tacit admission by the US Air Force that the F-35 has failed its main mission has triggered an outpouring of outrage from Americans who think the stealth fighter’s gargantuan budget could have been better spent on other things. Frustration with Lockheed Martin’s fifth-generation stealth jet flooded Twitter on ... read more

GameStop shares have again soared, surging by more than 100 percent until a trading halt slowed the rally before markets closed, stoking suspicions among small investors, some pointing to mysterious Reddit issues during the spike. $GME was up by nearly 104 percent when trading stopped on Wednesday, more than ... read more

The Fed chief promises Treasury purchases as far as the eye can see. ... read more

The Covid bill hides a major expansion of the Affordable Care Act. ... read more

If it’s stacked with Democrats, it won’t be a credible inquiry. ... read more

Governors plead poverty even as tax revenue is rolling in. ... read more

Trading in GameStop shares halted minutes before markets closed but jumped again in late trading. ... read more

Thirty years ago, a Marxist military collapse. ... read more

South Dakota's top lawman could be removed after officials say he fatally hit a man with his car. ... read more

Deadly fights broke out between rival gang members in three prisons, but authorities say situation is now under control. ... read more

Regulations forbid utilities from building energy resiliency. ... read more

Will he double down on grievance or begin the arduous process of re-creating his image? ... read more

Trusted technocrat Mario Draghi heads a coalition that includes former euroskeptics. ... read more

It shouldn’t take two days for a stock trade to clear and settle. It’s become feasible to do it in one. ... read more

Does Twitter have a tool for deleting 1,000 politically self-destructive tweets? ... read more

BlazeTV host Steven Crowder had his Twitter account restricted after posting about a video investigative piece claiming numerous voter addresses in the 2020 presidential election were faked. “DOZENS of voter names, addresses, and pictures proving they don’t exist. Period. Today I’m tired of this s**t. Mass voter fraud is ... read more

An operation to supply billions of coronavirus vaccine doses to poorer countries has started. But as rich countries buy most of the available supply, stark inequalities remain. ... read more

Ferland Mendy scores a stunning late winner as Real Madrid clinch a hard-working last-16 first leg victory against 10-man Atalanta. ... read more

Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly urged US President Joe Biden to maintain his predecessor’s sanctions against the International Criminal Court, arguing that even if he disagrees with them, the US and Israel must stick together. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu personally called up Biden last week to request he keep the ... read more

Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly urged US President Joe Biden to maintain his predecessor’s sanctions against the International Criminal Court, arguing that even if he disagrees with them, the US and Israel must stick together. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu personally called up Biden last week to request he keep the ... read more

Manchester City make it 19 wins in a row with another utterly dominant display against Borussia Monchengladbach ... read more

The uses of the sequencer in Earth orbit – and eventually on the Moon and on flights to Mars or asteroids – will be multifold. ... read more

The Biden administration has taken a popular meme and mutilated it, leaving what appears to be praise for Canada’s Justin Trudeau but which was hard to understand either way. Biden’s White House Twitter account posted two images in a row captioned “How it started. How it’s going” on Wednesday. ... read more

A huge study in Israel found that the vaccine reduced symptomatic cases by 94 percent a week after the second dose, and reduced severe disease by 92 percent. ... read more

Sevilla want £68m for defender Jules Kounde, Tammy Abraham considers his Chelsea future, Norwich City's Max Aarons attracts attention, plus more. ... read more

Democrats are working on a massive package of measures to help the US through the pandemic. ... read more

This next decade will be critical for America and a moderate current Presidency will be key to how well this racial dawning will occur. ... read more

WBC champion Tyson Fury says a fight against Anthony Joshua is no closer to being agreed than it was a year ago. ... read more

California company accused of 'dereliction of duty', claimants fear it will not be able to pay $13.5bn settlement. ... read more

Mahamane Ousmane insists 'fraud' committed 'pretty much everywhere in all of Niger's regions'. ... read more

Riots have continued in the Spanish region of Catalonia for a ninth consecutive night as demonstrators voice their anger over the arrest of rapper Pablo Hasel for insulting the monarchy and glorifying terrorism on Twitter. Protesters pelted police with bottles and stones and torched refuse containers in the town ... read more

Riots have continued in the Spanish region of Catalonia for a ninth consecutive night as demonstrators voice their anger over the arrest of rapper Pablo Hasel for insulting the monarchy and glorifying terrorism on Twitter. Protesters pelted police with bottles and stones and torched refuse containers in the town ... read more

U.S. foreign policy isn’t to blame for the mullahs’ deep-rooted hatred of America and Americans. ... read more

He refused to apologize for fake transgressions and never lost his humor. More could follow his example. ... read more

Lionel Messi scores twice as Barcelona beat Elche to move within five points of La Liga leaders Atletico Madrid. ... read more

The digital token rose as much as 7 percent on Wednesday after sinking 13 percent on Tuesday. ... read more

Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza said Isabel Brilhante had 72 hours to leave the country.  ... read more

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyoming) is facing a backlash after openly disagreeing with Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-California) on Donald Trump’s future with the party during an awkward press conference exchange. Asked on Wednesday whether Trump should be speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Florida this week, McCarthy ... read more

Heavyweight champion Tyson Fury has been mocked by fans after appearing to advertize a "white people’s champion" sweatshirt to more than four million followers on Instagram, encouraging them to snap up the offer at his shop. Eagle-eyed fans laughed at giant Briton Fury's howler after he attempted to flog ... read more

Femicide of 18-year-old Ursula Bahillo pushed thousands into the streets of Buenos Aires this month to demand action. ... read more

Baarack the sheep was taken in by a sanctuary after being found in a forest near Melbourne. ... read more

An 'operational error resulted in disruption of service' in Fed systems that process trillions of dollars in payments. ... read more

Emma Modesta Coronel Aispuro, the wife of the Mexican drug lord El Chapo — who is serving a life sentence in the US state of Colorado — has now been arrested, as well. It's a long fall for a childhood pageant winner. ... read more

Federal Reserve Chair Powell urged lawmakers not to worry about inflation unless prices were to rise in a troubling way. ... read more

The head of the EU's delegation to Venezuela has been told she has just 72 hours to leave after being expelled by Caracas in response to Brussels expanding its sanctions on Venezuelan officials for “undermining democracy.” Venezuela's National Assembly voted earlier this week to expel EU envoy Isabel Brilhante ... read more

The head of the EU's delegation to Venezuela has been told she has just 72 hours to leave after being expelled by Caracas in response to Brussels expanding its sanctions on Venezuelan officials for “undermining democracy.” Venezuela's National Assembly voted earlier this week to expel EU envoy Isabel Brilhante ... read more

Longtime Democratic operative Neera Tanden drew bipartisan criticism for critical tweets in Trump era ... read more

Jamie Hill said taking the stunning photos of the northern cardinal was "once in a lifetime". ... read more

The LGBT+ Rights Ghana group says its Accra office was raided and closed by security forces. ... read more

Nearly 400 Twitter accounts have been shut down in the latest Silicon Valley banning spree over allegations many are linked to Moscow and work to discredit a US-led military grouping that stages war-games on the country's border. On Tuesday, Russian media reported that the San Francisco-based microblogging platform had ... read more

The US Federal Reserve announced Wednesday it is investigating a disruption to services including Fedwire, which facilitates billions of dollars in wire transfers between institutions every day. According to updates from the Federal Reserve, the massive disruption to services was caused by an “operational error”. "We acknowledge that payment ... read more

The global vaccine sharing program kicks off. ... read more

State Department officials overseas expressed anger and disappointment that diplomats in Washington were being vaccinated before those in more perilous posts. ... read more

Partners decided not to keep Kevin Sneader in the top job. Weeks earlier, McKinsey had reached a historic settlement agreement in the U.S. over its advice to drugmakers. ... read more

Women are still underrepresented in senior executive roles, especially at smaller firms. ... read more

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announces that Brisbane is the preferred bidder to host the 2032 Olympic Games. ... read more

Senator Jack Reed said he favored seeking an extension of the May 1 deadline for withdrawing troops that President Donald Trump and the Taliban negotiated last year. ... read more

England's batsmen played "like rabbits in headlights" on the first day of the third Test against India in Ahmedabad, says former captain Michael Vaughan. ... read more

Dele Alli scores a spectacular overhead kick as Tottenham cruise into the Europa League last 16 with an 8-1 aggregate win over Wolfsberger. ... read more

The White House coronavirus task force said weekly supply of doses to states is up by 70 percent, with more on the way. ... read more

Video of Finance Minister Philip Mpango, maskless and in a coughing fit, has been widely condemned. ... read more

Venezuela is giving the EU ambassador 72 hours to leave the country, again. But the bloc insists on negotiations. ... read more

Hundreds protest in Rustavi, expressing solidarity with opposition leader Melia a day after his arrest. ... read more

From this Friday, the city of Dunkirk and the surrounding area will enter a weekend lockdown similar to that in Nice, France's Health Minister Olivier Veran has announced while warning of an uptick in Covid-19 cases nationwide. "The epidemic situation is deteriorating in our country," Veran said during a ... read more

From this Friday, the city of Dunkirk and the surrounding area will enter a weekend lockdown similar to that in Nice, France's Health Minister Olivier Veran has announced while warning of an uptick in Covid-19 cases nationwide. "The epidemic situation is deteriorating in our country," Veran said during a ... read more

Organisers are "very confident" the events will happen this summer, as lockdown is due to be eased. ... read more

The United States has grappled with shortages of medical gear and computer chips, among other items. ... read more

Purchases of new single-family homes in the United States in January increased 4.3 percent, beating forecasts. ... read more