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Cook calls Pelosi, warns of antitrust legislation pitfalls: Report
Citing sources, The New York Times reported that Apple's chief executive phoned Pelosi and other members of Congress to warn them of potential pitfalls concerning a set of five proposals announced earlier this month. According to the report, Cook cautioned that the bills were rushed, would stifle innovation, and would hurt consumers by wreaking havoc on Apple services.
Mandalay shootout worries Myanmar Junta
Fighting erupted between an armed urban insurgent group People's Defense Force, a Mandalay based resistance force made up of Bamar (ethnic Burmese) hardliners , and the Burmese military Tatmadaw raided a rebel hideout on the 54th street in Mandalay's Chanmyathazi township on Tuesday morning.
Bomb blast near Hafiz Saeed's house in Lahore kills 2
Saeed is wanted in India for the Mumbai terror attack and other terror cases. He is the founder of banned terror groups Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jamat-ud-Dawa and currently lodged in jail. The house was cordoned through barbed wire and security personnel were deployed permanently to guard it. Top sources said that one of the policemen deployed for the security of the house was killed in the blast.
'If a man is wearing very few clothes...': Taslima Nasreen takes a jibe at Pak PM Imran Khan's remark on rape cases
Imran Khan, in an interview, had said that if a woman is wearing ‘very few clothes, it will have an impact on men’. Reacting to this, Nasreen tweeted a shirtless picture of Imran Khan and captioned: "If a man is wearing very few clothes, it will have an impact on women, unless they are robots.”
Biden to deliver address over soaring crime rates in US major cities
The President is likely to highlight funding for law enforcement and Justice Department initiatives to curb rampant crimes, local media reported. "It's an opportunity for the President to speak to what he's going to do to help address that," White House press secretary Jen Psaki said. "And as we've seen around the country, it's a concern of many Americans."
US seizes websites used by Iranian news outlets
The US on Tuesday seized dozens of websites used by the Iranian news outlets for "violation of sanctions." "Today, pursuant to court orders, the United States seized 33 websites used by the Iranian Islamic Radio and Television Union (IRTVU) and three websites operated by Kata'ib Hizballah (KH), in violation of US sanctions," said the Justice Department in a statement.
Senate Republicans block Democrats' sweeping voting rights bill
US Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked a sweeping legislation to overhaul federal elections, defeating Democrats' efforts to counter a wave of state-level voting restrictions. Senators voted 50-50 in the evenly split Senate on advancing the For the People Act, failing to meet the threshold of 60 votes needed to overcome a GOP filibuster, Xinhua reported.
India, G4 allies force amendment to UNGA decision on Security Council reforms
As the Assembly failed year after to make headway on the reform process, the intergovernmental negotiations (IGN) have been quietly bumped to the next session's agenda, but this time on Tuesday the G4 prevailed in bringing the issue to the open for a discussion and have the decision amended to reflect the call of world leaders to reinvigorate the reform process.
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter completes 8th flight on Mars
It flew for 77.4 seconds and travelled 160 meters to a new landing spot, about 133.5 meters from NASA's Persevere rover. Ingenuity arrived at Mars' Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, attached to the belly of the Perseverance rover. The helicopter is a technology demonstration with a planned test flight duration of up to 30 Martian days.
US to fall short of Joe Biden's July 4 vaccination goal: Official
"We want every American in every community to be protected and free from fear of the virus. That's why we'll keep working to vaccinate more Americans across the summer and into the fall... we are not stopping at 70 per cent and we're not stopping on July Fourth," Zients said at a White House COVID response briefing.
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