Europe

TikTok CEO resigns amid US pressure to sell video app

3:27 pm August 27, 2020

Hong Kong: TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer resigned Thursday amid US pressure for its Chinese owner to sell the popular video app, which the White House says is a security risk. In a letter to employees, Mayer said that his decision to leave comes after the “political environment has sharply changed”. His resignation follows President Donald Trump’s order to ban TikTok unless its parent company, ByteDance, sells its US operations to […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Europe is going back to school despite recent virus surge

3:24 pm August 27, 2020

Paris: A mother and her three children scanned the school supplies in a Paris supermarket, plucking out multicolored fountain pens, crisp notebooks – and plenty of masks. Despite resurgent coronavirus infections, similar scenes are unfolding across Europe as a new school year dawns. Virus or no virus, European authorities are determined to put children back […]

UN: Discussions with Russia on COVID-19 vaccine under way

6:57 pm August 20, 2020

London: The World Health Organization’s Europe office said it has begun discussions with Russia to try to obtain more information about the experimental COVID-19 vaccine the country recently approved. Last week, Russia became the first country in the world to license a coronavirus vaccine when President Vladimir Putin announced its approval. But the vaccine has not yet passed the advanced trials normally required […]

Virus pandemic reshaping air travel as carriers struggle

3:35 pm August 17, 2020

Washington: In a bid to survive, airlines are desperately trying to convince a wary public that measures like mandatory face masks and hospital-grade air filters make sitting in a plane safer than many other indoor settings during the coronavirus pandemic. It isn’t working. Surveys indicate that instead of growing comfortable with air travel, more people […]

Prince Charles leads UK’s VJ Day World War II end commemoration

9:15 pm August 15, 2020

London: Britain’s Prince Charles on Saturday led the UK’s commemoration of the 75th anniversary of Victory over Japan (VJ) Day – the day World War II ended with Japan‘s surrender in 1945. The 71-year-old heir to the British throne, joined by wife Camilla – Duchess of Cornwall, led a two-minute UK-wide silence from the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire in the West Midlands region of England as […]