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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.html
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 Jersey Evening Post 6141642773350989041.html
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 10:16 Express & Star 7324224458815585521.html
Economy
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.html
CBDT 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.html
Technology
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.html
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 12:21 Fox 4 8372747776906185874.html
Entertainment
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.html
Prosecutor: 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.html
Science
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.html
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 17:08 Express & Star 7324224459291445460.html
Sports
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.html
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 Irish Mirror 2875825628730370335.html
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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.html
How 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.html
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Society
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.html
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 Jersey Evening Post 6141642773350989041.html
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 10:16 Express & Star 7324224458815585521.html
Society
Air 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.html
Air 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.html
Society
Weinstein ‘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.html
Weinstein ‘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.html
Weinstein ‘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.html
Society
Universities 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.html
Universities 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.html
Society
South 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.html
South 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.html
Society
Indian 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.html
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 09:50 Digital Journal 4566489171493292815.html
Society
Sri 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.html
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 14:50 Digital Journal 4566489171830766544.html
Economy 1
Economy
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.html
CBDT 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.html
Technology 1
Technology
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.html
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 12:21 Fox 4 8372747776906185874.html
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Sports
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.html
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 Irish Mirror 2875825628730370335.html
Sports
No '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.html
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 neighboring China.

14 Feb 16:18 Fox News 7362823820150205504.html
Sports
Welsh 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.html
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 15:44 Shropshire Star 3480199993315832944.html
Sports
5 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.html
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 mirror 675785260983088056.html
Sports
Woman, 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.html
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 Express & Star 7324224460461217679.html
Sports
Ex-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.html
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 Irish Mirror 2875825628928706844.html
Sports
Jordan 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.html
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 mirror 675785260512947430.html
Entertainment 2
Entertainment
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.html
Prosecutor: 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.html
Entertainment
Be 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.html
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 13:34 Jersey Evening Post 6141642774127356284.html
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 13:32 Shropshire Star 3480199992045775228.html
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 13:32 Express & Star 7324224459591952764.html
Science 1
Science
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.html
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 17:08 Express & Star 7324224459291445460.html
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Other
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.html
How 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.html
Other
Sacked 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.html
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 14:17 Express & Star 7324224460701613211.html
Other
Struggling 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.html
Struggling 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.html
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Mogollon 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.html
Not 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.html
Forced 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.html
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Macron'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.html
Macron'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.html
Other
Hong 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.html
Hong 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.html
Other
Horse-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.html
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 Express & Star 7324224459753354139.html