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Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa used her new prominence to criticise Facebook as a threat to democracy, saying the social media giant fails to protect against the spread of hate and disinformation and is "biased against facts".

SIA website hit by technical difficulties following surge of traffic.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Canada's main stock index edged higher on Wednesday as optimism that a U.S. debt-ceiling deal could be reached offset worries around higher inflation and a pullback in energy stocks, with the index recouping earlier losses.

By Sarah Marsh HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba, which to date had deployed exclusively its homegrown COVID-19 vaccines, will start also using the Sinopharm va...

Extensive coverage in China of sexual assault scandals involving tech giant Alibaba and celebrity Kris Wu, without obvious censorship, has rekindled discussion of the topic in a country where the #MeToo movement has previously been stifled.

Latin Americas resurgent left and Caribbean spurn U.S. policy on Cuba By Sarah Marsh Reuters HAVANA (Reuters) - The United States doubled down on its tough stance and sanctions on Cuba after historic protests in the Communist-run island last month and said it would seek to support protesters. But many countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, a region which is still scarred by Washington’s backing of coups during the Cold War and has shifted leftwards in recent years, are asking ...

Article content NEW YORK — U.S. shares bounded to record highs on Thursday helped by strong company earnings and solid economic growth data, though the Federal Reserve’s message earlier this week that it is in no hurry to taper stimulus pinned the dollar at a one-month low. Following a spate of strong corporate earnings reports from Ford Motor Co to KFC owner Yum Brands Inc overnight, investors were further cheered by data showing the U.S. economy grew at a solid annualized pace of 6.5% in ...

Sarah Marsh 4 minute read Doses of Cuba Abdala vaccine are seen at a vaccination center in Caracas, Venezuela July 1, 2021. REUTERS/Manaure Quintero/File Photo HAVANA, July 28 (Reuters) - Iran will next week become the first country outside of Cuba to start producing one of the Communist-run islands homegrown COVID-19 vaccines on an industrial scale, Cuban state-run media said on Wednesday. The allies are under fierce U.S. sanctions that they say have long encumbered access to medicines and med...

95 FILE PHOTO: Journalists gather next to police officers standing guard near the private residence of Haitis President Jovenel Moise after he was shot dead by gunmen with assault rifles, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti July 7, 2021. REUTERS/Estailove St-Val Reuters – Haiti’s police seized on Thursday at least two more suspected members of the gang of assassins that killed President Jovenel Moise, following a fierce battle that left bullets strewn in the streets of the capital. Hundreds of residen...

Two Haitian Americans in custody after presidents killing, minister says Moise, 53, was shot dead early on Wednesday at his home by what officials said was a commando of apparently foreign, trained killers, pitching the poorest country in the Americas deeper into turmoil amidst political divisions, hunger, and widespread gang violence. Written By: Andre Paultre and Robenson Sanon / Reuters | 2:28 pm, Jul. 8, 2021 × People react outside a police station where suspected mem...