Capital One to buy Discover for $35 billion in deal combining major US credit card companies

Capital One Financial said it will buy Discover Financial Services for $35 billion, in a deal that would bring together two of the nation’s credit card companies as

Former Bank of China chairman indicted for bribery in nation’s long-running anticorruption drive

The former chairman of the Bank of China has been indicted on bribery charges, prosecutors said last night, adding to a long list of business and government officials

China’s coast guard to ramp up patrols near Taiwan’s Kinmen archipelago after two fishermen die

China is stepping up patrols in the waters off the coast of Taiwan’s Kinmen archipelago, days after two of its fishermen drowned while being chased by the Taiwanese coast guard,

Microsoft says US rivals are beginning to use generative AI in offensive cyber ops

Microsoft said that U.S. adversaries — chiefly Iran and North Korea and to a lesser extent Russia and China — are beginning to use its generative artificial intelligence

Germany sells shares in postal company for $2.3 billion to improve finance railway

Germany’s state-owned development bank has sold shares in the company that owns the national postal service for about 2.17 billion euros ($2.3 billion), reducing the government’s stake and raising

US porn actor who advocates for Palestinians visits Iran on trip unacknowledged by Tehran

An American porn actor who has advocated for Palestinians online during  The visit by Whitney Wright as Iran imprisons  Wright filmed herself throughout Tehran despite her

Microsoft says state-backed Russian hackers accessed emails of senior leadership team members

State-backed Russian hackers broke into Microsoft’s corporate email system and accessed the accounts of members of the company’s leadership team, as well as those of employees on its cybersecurity

Secret US spying program targeted top Venezuelan officials, flouting international law

A secret memo obtained by The Associated Press details a yearslong covert operation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration that sent undercover operatives into Venezuela to surreptitiously record

Secret US spying program targeted top Venezuelan officials, flouting international law

A secret memo obtained by The Associated Press details a yearslong covert operation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration that sent undercover operatives into Venezuela to surreptitiously record and build drug-trafficking cases against the country’s leadership – a plan the U.S. acknowledged from the start was arguably a violation of international law.

Déjà vu? Electoral bans, arrests, attacks, threats again part of Venezuelan presidential race

Déjà vu? Feels like it. Assassination plots, arrest warrants for journalists and human rights defenders, attacks against adversaries – from the belittling kind to the judicial type –

Global anti-corruption efforts are faltering, partly due to a ‘decline’ in justice: survey

Efforts to fight public sector corruption are faltering around the world, in part because a “global decline in justice and the rule of law since 2016,” according to a

China protests interrogations and deportations of its students at US entry points

The Chinese government has protested to the United States over the treatment of Chinese arriving to study in America, saying some have been interrogated for hours, had their electronic

‘Doomsday Clock’ signals existential threats of nuclear war, climate disasters and AI

Earth, for the second year running, is nearing apocalypse, a science-oriented advocacy group said, pointing to its famous “Doomsday Clock” that shows 90 seconds till midnight. The

West presses China as UN reviews its rights record, Beijing says it protects human rights

Western countries used a U.N.-backed review of China’s human rights record yesterday to press Beijing to do more to allow freedom of expression, protect the rights of ethnic

6-legged spaniel undergoes surgery and adjusts to life on 4 paws

A spaniel born with six legs that was found abandoned in a supermarket parking lot is now like other dogs after having her extra limbs surgically removed. Ariel,

China, Philippines agree to lower tensions on South China Sea confrontations

China and the Philippines said they have agreed to work on lowering tensions after a year of public and tense confrontations in the South China Sea between their ships

Guinness World Records suspends ‘oldest dog ever’ title for Portuguese canine

Guinness World Records says it has suspended the title of oldest dog ever that was held by a Portuguese dog that died last year. The publication said it

Trump leads GOP rightward march and other takeaways from the Iowa caucuses

Donald Trump’s iron grip on the Republican Party has been clear since the day he announced he would make another run for the White House 14 months ago. It can be

Men who were allegedly abused by a Japanese boy band producer criticize company’s response

Members of a group of men who say they were sexually abused as boys by a Japanese entertainment mogul are accusing the company behind the scandal, previously known

Blinken seeks more aid for Gaza as hostage talks restart in Egypt

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas yesterday to seek governance reforms, part of a plan to rally the region behind a postwar vision

WP2Social Auto Publish Powered By : XYZScripts.com
MACAU DAILY TIMES