Новости за 18.01.2021

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Ugandan opposition presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi, who is also known as Bobi Wine, said on Monday that the military and the police surrounded offices of his political party, the National Unity Platform (NUP), in Kampala and once again claimed that the recent presidential election in the African country was rigged.

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The I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! 2019 contestant shared the worrying news to Instagram, asking fans to pray for his high risk father

​Size?, the “community-led” trainer store, has unveiled a new feature on its Size? Launches app that “immerses users in an interactive app experience” and introduces 17 collab products dropping across the new year.

Home Secretary Priti Patel said people needed to realise that ‘actions have consequences’.

Artificial intelligence (AI) used by governments and the corporate sector to detect and extinguish online extreme speech often misses important cultural nuance, but bringing in independent factcheckers as intermediaries could help step up the fight against online vitriol, according to Sahana Udupa, professor of media anthropology at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany. Factcheckers who […]

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BBC Radio 4 announces slight alteration to broadcasting times.

Two teenagers and a man in his forties have been arrested following a double stabbing in south London.

“Change actually starts from within each one of us,” Walmart’s CEO Doug McMillon said last week at a keynote address at CES 2021. “Our biases, conscious and unconscious, need to be dealt with individually and collectively.” What’s holding back faster progress for retailers with diversity and inclusion programs?

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There must be a reckoning for Trump and for all those who were complicit with Trump.

Staples for the third time is seeking to acquire rival Office Depot as the accelerated shift to online shopping and work-from-home culture recasts the opportunity in office supply retail. Does a Staples and Office Depot merger make more sense in a post-COVID environment?

Marc Lore, who has often been credited with jumpstarting Walmart’s digital evolution, is leaving the discount giant after five years.  How much headway has Walmart made competing with Amazon  over the last five years?

Keeping constant watch: India on China building village in Arunachal

The air quality was recorded in the ''very poor'' category in Ghaziabad, Noida, Greater Noida and Faridabad while it was ''poor'' in Gurgaon on Monday, according to data issued by a government agency.

Everything we’ve recently heard about Deshaun Watson suggests the star quarterback’s relationship with the Texans is fractured beyond repair. But perhaps there’s one way Houston can make Watson happy and thus keep him with the organization for the forseeable future. Some of Watson’s current frustration reportedly is due to the Texans not consulting him before […]

Former Bigg Boss contestant Sana Khan is living her happily ever after with husband Anas Saiyad. The actress in a new post on Sunday showered praises on her husband for pushing her to do good even under adverse circumstances.

The world is on the “brink of a catastrophic moral failure” if rich countries hog COVID-19 vaccine doses while the poorest suffer, the head of the WHO said Monday.World Health Organization

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Power Finance Corporation (PFC) has planned to raise Rs 10,000 crore through bonds in two tranches.

Japanese researchers are testing materials that can stand high temperatures and improve the efficiency of gas turbines in power plants and aircraft.

The Met Office has warned of "danger to life" from floods, gales and snow as Storm Christoph heads to the UK.

(Telecompaper) Ugandan financial technology companies say they expect to lose at least UGX 666 billion daily after the government shut down the internet on 13 January, The Monitor reported...