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Macron ally pulls out of Paris mayoral race amid sex images reports
14 Feb 10:19 • 3 articles
Macron ally pulls out of Paris mayoral race amid sex images reports
A Russian performance artist reportedly claimed responsibility for leaks of compromising sexual images involving Benjamin Griveaux.
14 Feb 10:19 • Shropshire Star • 3480199991269407985.htmlMacron ally pulls out of Paris mayoral race amid sex images reports
A Russian performance artist reportedly claimed responsibility for leaks of compromising sexual images involving Benjamin Griveaux.
14 Feb 10:19 • Jersey Evening Post • 6141642773350989041.htmlMacron ally pulls out of Paris mayoral race amid sex images reports
A Russian performance artist reportedly claimed responsibility for leaks of compromising sexual images involving Benjamin Griveaux.
14 Feb 10:16 • Express & Star • 7324224458815585521.htmlCBDT notifies forms for firms to avail lower corporate taxes
14 Feb 16:46 • 2 articles
CBDT notifies forms for firms to avail lower corporate taxes
The income tax (I-T) department has notified forms for companies to avail the reduced corporate tax rates that were announced in September last year. The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has
14 Feb 16:46 • Deccan Herald • 2027555797649202772.htmlCBDT notifies forms for firms to avail lower corporate taxes
The move comes after the government had slashed corporate tax rate last year in September as a measure to boost economic activity. The base corporate tax for existing companies was brought down to 22% from the current 30% while for new manufacturing firms, the tax was reduced to 15 per cent from the current 25 per cent.
14 Feb 11:24 • The Economic Times • 7653256037785698278.htmlTexas school district invests in high-tech security software to protect students
14 Feb 17:21 • 2 articles
Texas school district invests in high-tech security software to protect students
A Texas school district has taken security to a new level by installing hundreds of cameras in its 14 schools. At any point in time, around two-dozen can have facial recognition capabilities.
14 Feb 17:21 • ABC Action News - WFTS - Tampa Bay • 5911730202038193298.htmlTexas school district invests in high-tech security software to protect students
A Texas school district has taken security to a new level by installing hundreds of cameras in its 14 schools. At any point in time, around two-dozen can have facial recognition capabilities.
14 Feb 12:21 • Fox 4 • 8372747776906185874.htmlProsecutor: Weinstein saw victims as 'complete disposables'
14 Feb 17:43 • 2 articles
Prosecutor: Weinstein saw victims as 'complete disposables'
Harvey Weinstein believed he was so powerful he could get away with denigrating aspiring actresses drawn into a world where he considered them 'complete disposables,' a prosecutor said on Friday in closing arguments at his New York City rape trial.
14 Feb 17:43 • CTVNews • 2422791599129944972.htmlProsecutor: Weinstein saw victims as 'complete disposables'
Harvey Weinstein considered himself such a big shot in Hollywood that he thought he could get away with treating aspiring actresses like "complete disposables," a prosecutor told a jury in closing arguments Friday at his New York City rape trial.
14 Feb 10:59 • CTVNews • 2422791598274969750.htmlQuarantined cruise ship passengers beg Richard Branson for help
14 Feb 17:11 • 2 articles
Quarantined cruise ship passengers beg Richard Branson for help
A British couple stuck onboard a cruise ship quarantined off the coast of Japan have appealed to billionaire Richard Branson for help.
14 Feb 17:11 • Shropshire Star • 3480199991745267924.htmlQuarantined cruise ship passengers beg Richard Branson for help
A British couple stuck onboard a cruise ship quarantined off the coast of Japan have appealed to billionaire Richard Branson for help.
14 Feb 17:08 • Express & Star • 7324224459291445460.htmlBarcelona identify Mallorca star Ante Budimir to solve striker injury crisis
14 Feb 09:16 • 2 articles
Barcelona identify Mallorca star Ante Budimir to solve striker injury crisis
Luis Suarez and Ousmane Dembele have been ruled out until the end of the season and the La Liga giants are now lacking options going forward
14 Feb 09:16 • mirror • 675785260012112401.htmlBarcelona identify Mallorca star Ante Budimir to solve striker injury crisis
Luis Suarez and Ousmane Dembele have been ruled out until the end of the season and the La Liga giants are now lacking options going forward
14 Feb 09:16 • Irish Mirror • 2875825628730370335.htmlHow calligraphy became an integral part of Arab identity — and how it can remain so
14 Feb 10:41 • 2 articles
How calligraphy became an integral part of Arab identity — and how it can remain so
MALAGA: When we think of Orientalism — the much-studied and, now, often-derided artistic genre through which colonial-era artists created fantasized imagery of the faraway lands of the East — French titans Eugène Delacroix and Jean-Léon Gérôme’s odalisques, slave markets and hamams usually come to mind. However, an exhibition at the Carmen Thyssen Museum in Malaga sheds light
14 Feb 10:41 • Arab News • 8912634263869495527.htmlHow calligraphy became an integral part of Arab identity — and how it can remain so
AMMAN: In the spring of 2017, a group of fishermen in Gaza discovered treasure that could change their lives: A hoard of ancient Greek coins — over 2,000 years old — which included dozens of silver decadrachm coins from the time of Alexander the Great. Only 12 such coins had been officially recorded previously, and each is worth thousands of dollars (some, depending on their
14 Feb 10:25 • Arab News • 8912634263929472262.htmlSociety 27
Macron ally pulls out of Paris mayoral race amid sex images reports
14 Feb 10:19 • 3 articles
Macron ally pulls out of Paris mayoral race amid sex images reports
A Russian performance artist reportedly claimed responsibility for leaks of compromising sexual images involving Benjamin Griveaux.
14 Feb 10:19 • Shropshire Star • 3480199991269407985.htmlMacron ally pulls out of Paris mayoral race amid sex images reports
A Russian performance artist reportedly claimed responsibility for leaks of compromising sexual images involving Benjamin Griveaux.
14 Feb 10:19 • Jersey Evening Post • 6141642773350989041.htmlMacron ally pulls out of Paris mayoral race amid sex images reports
A Russian performance artist reportedly claimed responsibility for leaks of compromising sexual images involving Benjamin Griveaux.
14 Feb 10:16 • Express & Star • 7324224458815585521.htmlAir strike in Afghanistan kills eight civilians
14 Feb 15:42 • 2 articles
Air strike in Afghanistan kills eight civilians
JUBA: South Sudan President Salva Kiir on Friday dismissed international calls for compromise with his foes to break a deadlock that threatens a cease-fire in their six year war. Kiir and rebel chief Riek Machar are under increasing pressure to resolve their differences by February 22 and form a unity government as part of a peace agreement. The pair have already missed two
14 Feb 15:42 • Arab News • 8912634263426299968.htmlAir strike in Afghanistan kills eight civilians
BERLIN: German police detained 12 men on Friday suspected of setting up a far-right organization with the goal of carrying out attacks against politicians, asylum seekers and Muslims, the Federal Prosecutor’s Office (GBA) said. Prosecutors said four of the suspects had set up a “terrorist organization” in September 2019 and regularly met and contacted each other by phone and
14 Feb 14:33 • Arab News • 8912634263969194300.htmlWeinstein ‘saw victims as complete disposables’
14 Feb 17:07 • 3 articles
Weinstein ‘saw victims as complete disposables’
A prosecutor was making his closing arguments at Weinstein’s rape trial in New York.
14 Feb 17:07 • Jersey Evening Post • 6141642773941177177.htmlWeinstein ‘saw victims as complete disposables’
A prosecutor was making his closing arguments at Weinstein’s rape trial in New York.
14 Feb 17:06 • Shropshire Star • 3480199991859596121.htmlWeinstein ‘saw victims as complete disposables’
A prosecutor was making his closing arguments at Weinstein’s rape trial in New York.
14 Feb 17:06 • Express & Star • 7324224459405773657.htmlUniversities say Chinese students could quit Australia
14 Feb 10:42 • 2 articles
Universities say Chinese students could quit Australia
Top Australian universities warned Friday Chinese students may walk away from courses Down Under after Canberra extended a coronavirus travel ban, in a major blow to the multi-billion-dollar sector.
14 Feb 10:42 • The Guardian • 7580308505331680409.htmlUniversities say Chinese students could quit Australia
SYDNEY, Feb 14 — Top Australian universities warned today Chinese students may walk away from courses Down Under after Canberra extended a coronavirus travel ban, in a major blow to the multi-billion-dollar sector. Nearly 70,000 Chinese visa holders are due to start their semesters soon at eight...
14 Feb 08:16 • Malaymail • 302165936121330876.htmlSouth Sudan’s Kiir says no compromise to end peace deal deadlock
14 Feb 16:15 • 2 articles
South Sudan’s Kiir says no compromise to end peace deal deadlock
South Sudan President Salva Kiir on Friday dismissed international calls for compromise with his foes to break a deadlock that threatens a ceasefire in their six year war.
14 Feb 16:15 • The Guardian • 7580308504276356218.htmlSouth Sudan’s Kiir says no compromise to end peace deal deadlock
KABUL: An air strike in Afghanistan on Friday killed at least eight people — all believed to be civilians, residents said — following US statements that there had been a breakthrough in peace talks. US President Donald Trump said on Thursday there was a “good chance” of reaching an agreement with the Taliban on a reduction of US troops in Afghanistan.
14 Feb 16:13 • Arab News • 8912634263225015345.htmlIndian students stripped for menstruation checks
14 Feb 09:57 • 2 articles
Indian students stripped for menstruation checks
Scores of women students staged a protest outside an Indian college saying they were forced to strip to check if they were menstruating.
14 Feb 09:57 • Pulse Live • 3606876835981443502.htmlIndian students stripped for menstruation checks
Scores of women students staged a protest outside an Indian college saying they were forced to strip to check if they were menstruating.
14 Feb 09:50 • Digital Journal • 4566489171493292815.htmlSri Lanka arrests ex-envoy to Russia over MiG deal
14 Feb 14:52 • 2 articles
Sri Lanka arrests ex-envoy to Russia over MiG deal
Sri Lanka arrested a former ambassador to Russia after he was extradited from Dubai Friday to face money laundering charges over a controversial MiG aircraft purchase, police said.
14 Feb 14:52 • Pulse Live • 3606876836623116774.htmlSri Lanka arrests ex-envoy to Russia over MiG deal
Sri Lanka arrested a former ambassador to Russia after he was extradited from Dubai Friday to face money laundering charges over a controversial MiG aircraft purchase, police said.
14 Feb 14:50 • Digital Journal • 4566489171830766544.htmlEconomy 1
CBDT notifies forms for firms to avail lower corporate taxes
14 Feb 16:46 • 2 articles
CBDT notifies forms for firms to avail lower corporate taxes
The income tax (I-T) department has notified forms for companies to avail the reduced corporate tax rates that were announced in September last year. The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has
14 Feb 16:46 • Deccan Herald • 2027555797649202772.htmlCBDT notifies forms for firms to avail lower corporate taxes
The move comes after the government had slashed corporate tax rate last year in September as a measure to boost economic activity. The base corporate tax for existing companies was brought down to 22% from the current 30% while for new manufacturing firms, the tax was reduced to 15 per cent from the current 25 per cent.
14 Feb 11:24 • The Economic Times • 7653256037785698278.htmlTechnology 1
Texas school district invests in high-tech security software to protect students
14 Feb 17:21 • 2 articles
Texas school district invests in high-tech security software to protect students
A Texas school district has taken security to a new level by installing hundreds of cameras in its 14 schools. At any point in time, around two-dozen can have facial recognition capabilities.
14 Feb 17:21 • ABC Action News - WFTS - Tampa Bay • 5911730202038193298.htmlTexas school district invests in high-tech security software to protect students
A Texas school district has taken security to a new level by installing hundreds of cameras in its 14 schools. At any point in time, around two-dozen can have facial recognition capabilities.
14 Feb 12:21 • Fox 4 • 8372747776906185874.htmlSports 7
Barcelona identify Mallorca star Ante Budimir to solve striker injury crisis
14 Feb 09:16 • 2 articles
Barcelona identify Mallorca star Ante Budimir to solve striker injury crisis
Luis Suarez and Ousmane Dembele have been ruled out until the end of the season and the La Liga giants are now lacking options going forward
14 Feb 09:16 • mirror • 675785260012112401.htmlBarcelona identify Mallorca star Ante Budimir to solve striker injury crisis
Luis Suarez and Ousmane Dembele have been ruled out until the end of the season and the La Liga giants are now lacking options going forward
14 Feb 09:16 • Irish Mirror • 2875825628730370335.htmlNo 'Plan B' for Olympics; questions over Chinese presence
14 Feb 16:25 • 2 articles
No 'Plan B' for Olympics; questions over Chinese presence
Tokyo Olympic organizers and the International Olympic Committee said Friday there is no "Plan B" for the 2020 Games, which open in just over five months and have been jolted by the outbreak of a virus in neighbouring China.
14 Feb 16:25 • CTVNews • 2422791598172358223.htmlNo 'Plan B' for Olympics; questions over Chinese presence
Tokyo Olympic organizers and the International Olympic Committee said Friday there is no “Plan B” for the 2020 Games, which open in just over five months and have been jolted by the outbreak of a virus in neighboring China.
14 Feb 16:18 • Fox News • 7362823820150205504.htmlWelsh and Scottish women’s football bosses pick up MBEs at Palace
14 Feb 15:46 • 2 articles
Welsh and Scottish women’s football bosses pick up MBEs at Palace
Scotland’s head coach Michelle Kerr and Wales manager Jayne Ludlow were honoured.
14 Feb 15:46 • Jersey Evening Post • 6141642773410934038.htmlWelsh and Scottish women’s football bosses pick up MBEs at Palace
Scotland’s head coach Michelle Kerr and Wales manager Jayne Ludlow were honoured.
14 Feb 15:44 • Shropshire Star • 3480199993315832944.html5 things we noticed from Man Utd's training camp in Malaga ahead of huge clash against Chelsea
14 Feb 15:11 • 2 articles
5 things we noticed from Man Utd's training camp in Malaga ahead of huge clash against Chelsea
United's stars have been lapping up some winter sun on the Costa del Sol and look in a relaxed mood ahead of their game against fellow top-four challengers Chelsea on Monday
14 Feb 15:11 • Irish Mirror • 2875825629263843663.html5 things we noticed from Man Utd's training camp in Malaga ahead of huge clash against Chelsea
United's stars have been lapping up some winter sun on the Costa del Sol and look in a relaxed mood ahead of their game against fellow top-four challengers Chelsea on Monday
14 Feb 15:11 • mirror • 675785260983088056.htmlWoman, 39, killed in crash between lorry and car on A5 near Weston Park
14 Feb 09:57 • 2 articles
Woman, 39, killed in crash between lorry and car on A5 near Weston Park
A 39-year-old woman was killed in a crash today between a lorry and a car on the A5 near Weston Park.
14 Feb 09:57 • Shropshire Star • 3480199992915040143.htmlWoman, 39, killed in crash between lorry and car on A5 near Weston Park
A 39-year-old woman was killed in a crash today between a lorry and a car on the A5 near Weston Park.
14 Feb 09:57 • Express & Star • 7324224460461217679.htmlEx-England captain Dave Watson has brain disease "most likely" result of heading ball
14 Feb 17:14 • 2 articles
Ex-England captain Dave Watson has brain disease "most likely" result of heading ball
Dave Watson's wife Penny says that the 73-year-old's consultant thinks that it is "in all probability Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy"
14 Feb 17:14 • mirror • 675785261810318522.htmlEx-England captain Dave Watson has brain disease "most likely" result of heading ball
Dave Watson's wife Penny says that the 73-year-old's consultant thinks that it is "in all probability Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy"
14 Feb 17:14 • Irish Mirror • 2875825628928706844.htmlJordan Henderson has chance to join Liverpool legends - and is a worthy PFA Player of the Year winner
14 Feb 15:03 • 2 articles
Jordan Henderson has chance to join Liverpool legends - and is a worthy PFA Player of the Year winner
The Liverpool captain is a shining example of a player who has made the most of his gifts and I would have no complaints he won the accolade, but my vote would go to Trent Alexander-Arnold
14 Feb 15:03 • Irish Mirror • 2875825628084258453.htmlJordan Henderson has chance to join Liverpool legends - and is a worthy PFA Player of the Year winner
The Liverpool captain is a shining example of a player who has made the most of his gifts and I would have no complaints he won the accolade, but my vote would go to Trent Alexander-Arnold
14 Feb 15:03 • mirror • 675785260512947430.htmlEntertainment 2
Prosecutor: Weinstein saw victims as 'complete disposables'
14 Feb 17:43 • 2 articles
Prosecutor: Weinstein saw victims as 'complete disposables'
Harvey Weinstein believed he was so powerful he could get away with denigrating aspiring actresses drawn into a world where he considered them 'complete disposables,' a prosecutor said on Friday in closing arguments at his New York City rape trial.
14 Feb 17:43 • CTVNews • 2422791599129944972.htmlProsecutor: Weinstein saw victims as 'complete disposables'
Harvey Weinstein considered himself such a big shot in Hollywood that he thought he could get away with treating aspiring actresses like "complete disposables," a prosecutor told a jury in closing arguments Friday at his New York City rape trial.
14 Feb 10:59 • CTVNews • 2422791598274969750.htmlBe my music valentine: Camden venue Koko thanks firefighters
14 Feb 16:33 • 4 articles
Be my music valentine: Camden venue Koko thanks firefighters
A blaze broke out in January, destroying the famous venue's 120-year-old copper dome.
14 Feb 16:33 • The Irish News • 993065790973289.htmlBe my music valentine: Camden venue Koko thanks firefighters
A blaze broke out in January, destroying the famous venue’s 120-year-old copper dome.
14 Feb 13:34 • Jersey Evening Post • 6141642774127356284.htmlBe my music valentine: Camden venue Koko thanks firefighters
A blaze broke out in January, destroying the famous venue’s 120-year-old copper dome.
14 Feb 13:32 • Shropshire Star • 3480199992045775228.htmlBe my music valentine: Camden venue Koko thanks firefighters
A blaze broke out in January, destroying the famous venue’s 120-year-old copper dome.
14 Feb 13:32 • Express & Star • 7324224459591952764.htmlScience 1
Quarantined cruise ship passengers beg Richard Branson for help
14 Feb 17:11 • 2 articles
Quarantined cruise ship passengers beg Richard Branson for help
A British couple stuck onboard a cruise ship quarantined off the coast of Japan have appealed to billionaire Richard Branson for help.
14 Feb 17:11 • Shropshire Star • 3480199991745267924.htmlQuarantined cruise ship passengers beg Richard Branson for help
A British couple stuck onboard a cruise ship quarantined off the coast of Japan have appealed to billionaire Richard Branson for help.
14 Feb 17:08 • Express & Star • 7324224459291445460.htmlOther 90
How calligraphy became an integral part of Arab identity — and how it can remain so
14 Feb 10:41 • 2 articles
How calligraphy became an integral part of Arab identity — and how it can remain so
MALAGA: When we think of Orientalism — the much-studied and, now, often-derided artistic genre through which colonial-era artists created fantasized imagery of the faraway lands of the East — French titans Eugène Delacroix and Jean-Léon Gérôme’s odalisques, slave markets and hamams usually come to mind. However, an exhibition at the Carmen Thyssen Museum in Malaga sheds light
14 Feb 10:41 • Arab News • 8912634263869495527.htmlHow calligraphy became an integral part of Arab identity — and how it can remain so
AMMAN: In the spring of 2017, a group of fishermen in Gaza discovered treasure that could change their lives: A hoard of ancient Greek coins — over 2,000 years old — which included dozens of silver decadrachm coins from the time of Alexander the Great. Only 12 such coins had been officially recorded previously, and each is worth thousands of dollars (some, depending on their
14 Feb 10:25 • Arab News • 8912634263929472262.htmlSacked Cabinet minister tells pupil last meeting with PM was ‘er, just great’
14 Feb 14:19 • 2 articles
Sacked Cabinet minister tells pupil last meeting with PM was ‘er, just great’
Julian Smith lost his role as Northern Ireland Secretary on Thursday.
14 Feb 14:19 • Jersey Evening Post • 6141642775237016731.htmlSacked Cabinet minister tells pupil last meeting with PM was ‘er, just great’
Julian Smith lost his role as Northern Ireland Secretary on Thursday.
14 Feb 14:17 • Express & Star • 7324224460701613211.htmlStruggling Morocco oasis risks becoming mirage
14 Feb 14:09 • 2 articles
Struggling Morocco oasis risks becoming mirage
ANKARA: A Syrian military helicopter was shot down over the last major opposition bastion in northwest Syria on Friday, the second such incident in a week of high tensions with Turkey. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said two pilots were killed. The Turkey-backed National Liberation Front rebel group claimed responsibility. It came as Syrian and Russian forces pressed
14 Feb 14:09 • Arab News • 8912634263155343220.htmlStruggling Morocco oasis risks becoming mirage
SKOURA (Morocco), Feb 14 — Dead palm trees lie on dry, yellowish earth near an abandoned adobe house in Morocco’s arid southeast, as drought threatens ancient oases. “I grew up in this oasis and I have seen it shrink,” says 53-year-old Mohamed El Houkari, who lives in Skoura, a rural oasis...
14 Feb 13:00 • Malaymail • 302165935240578114.htmlMogollon Rim
14 Feb 16:32 • 3 articles
Mogollon Rim
Neighbors of the Mogollon Rim sued the U.S. Forest Service and Fish and Wildlife Service in federal court, claiming they illegally expanded grazing allotments that had been closed to grazing for 40 years in Arizona’s Mogollon Rim.
14 Feb 16:32 • Courthouse News Service • 1799505150628338783.htmlNot Funny
A woman who says she cofounded defendant Madelia Community Hospital and Clinic’s Mental Health Task Force claims it fired her after her son wrote a letter to the editor criticizing a brewery owned by the hospital’s CEO, for giving its beers names such as Personality Disorder Porter, Botched Lobotomy and Hopzophrenia, in Watonwan County Court, Minn.
14 Feb 16:31 • Courthouse News Service • 1799505149475009834.htmlForced Labor
A woman seeks punitive damages from La Luz del Mundo, claiming she was “enslaved, trafficked, and sexually abused by (its) leaders,” and that the religious organization “has made the economic and sexual exploitation of children and others a centerpiece of its operations for decades,” in L.A. Federal Court.
14 Feb 16:25 • Courthouse News Service • 1799505149384240441.htmlMacron's candidate for Paris mayor says withdrawing over sex video
14 Feb 17:34 • 2 articles
Macron's candidate for Paris mayor says withdrawing over sex video
Emmanuel Macron's candidate for Paris mayor, Benjamin Griveaux, withdrew from the race over a leaked sex video Friday, in a blow for the French president's party ahead of March local elections.
14 Feb 17:34 • The Jakarta Post • 7678601102787553069.htmlMacron's candidate for Paris mayor says withdrawing over sex video
Emmanuel Macron's candidate for Paris mayor, Benjamin Griveaux, has withdrawn from the race over a leaked sex video, in a blow for the French president's party ahead of March local elections.
14 Feb 12:43 • News24 • 3752801378648230320.htmlHong Kong doctor battles fear and separation on virus 'dirty team'
14 Feb 15:22 • 2 articles
Hong Kong doctor battles fear and separation on virus ‘dirty team’
The 38-year-old volunteered to join staff on isolation wards -- dubbed
14 Feb 15:22 • Manila Bulletin News • 7849457200203089331.htmlHong Kong doctor battles fear and separation on virus 'dirty team'
HONG KONG: After gruelling shifts treating coronavirus patients, Hong Kong doctor Alfred Wong often finds himself alone in a hotel room eating ...
14 Feb 14:40 • CNA • 5644198863641036277.htmlHorse-drawn carriages lead funeral procession for My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding twins
14 Feb 12:24 • 2 articles
Horse-drawn carriages lead funeral procession for My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding twins
Billy and Joe Smith, who appeared on the Channel 4 TV show in 2014, were found dead in a country lane just days after Christmas.
14 Feb 12:24 • Shropshire Star • 3480199992207176603.htmlHorse-drawn carriages lead funeral procession for My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding twins
Billy and Joe Smith, who appeared on the Channel 4 TV show in 2014, were found dead in a country lane just days after Christmas.
14 Feb 12:24 • Express & Star • 7324224459753354139.html