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Live TV can throw up all sorts of potential hurdles – technical glitches, unpredictable guests and knowing that there is no take two. But Marichka Padalko, a news anchor on Ukraine, faced an usual problem this week when part of…
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s Social Democrat Finance Minister Olaf Scholz is facing calls from rival parties to account for the regulatory failures that led to the collapse of Wirecard after it emerged he knew of concerns about the company 18…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Senator Josh Hawley, a Republican who closely follows tech issues, pressed Twitter Chief Executive Jack Dorsey on Friday on whether a company employee had been paid to assist with a hack of high-profile accounts this week aimed…
(Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Friday it would prohibit websites and apps that use its advertising technology from running ads on “dangerous content” that goes against scientific consensus during the coronavirus pandemic. The world’s largest search engine updated…
A man wearing a medical mask passes a building with a “For Rent” sign on Kyiv’s central Saksahanskoho Street on July 7, 2020
(Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google on Friday said it will prohibit websites and apps that use its advertising technology from running ads on “dangerous content” that goes against scientific consensus during the coronavirus pandemic. The move comes as the health…
(Reuters) – Some U.S. political figures, candidates and lawmakers locked out of their Twitter accounts (TWTR.N) in collateral damage from Wednesday’s high-profile hack were beginning to return to the social media site on Friday. “Guess who’s back?” President Donald Trump’s…
Irma Vitovska and Andriy Lidagovskiy star as mother and son in “My Thoughts Are Silent,” a comedy-drama about dreams, family and generation gap. The road movie is set in Zakarpattia Oblast in western Ukraine. “My Thoughts Are Silent,” the debut…
LONDON (Reuters) – British scientists analysing data from a widely-used COVID-19 symptom-tracking app have found there are six distinct types of the disease, each distinguished by a cluster of symptoms. A King’s College London team found that the six types…
Centrenergo smokestacks loom in the distance. The thermal power company produces 15% of Ukraine’s total electricity. State energy company Centrenergo has long been known as a den of corrupt schemes. So it wasn’t too surprising when the journalists at RFE/RL’s…