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On a Monday morning last month, tech executives, engineers and sales representatives from Amazon, Google, TikTok and other companies endured a three-hour traffic jam as their cars crawled toward a mammoth conference at an event space in the desert, 50 miles outside Riyadh.The lure: billions of dollars in Saudi money as the kingdom seeks to build a tech industry to complement its oil dominance.To bypass the congestion, frustrated eventgoers drove onto the highway shoulder, kicking up plumes of desert sand as they sped past those following traffic rules. A lucky few took advantage of a special freeway exit dedicated to…
‘Politically motivated’: Pakistan rejects US State Department report on rights violations ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday “categorically” rejected the 2023 Country Report on Human Rights Practices issued by the US State Department, calling the report politically motivated, lacking objective evidence and ” It is in line with the agenda of “the politicization of international human rights.” The annual human rights assessment, released earlier this week, found that in the past year Pakistan has experienced a number of incidents of arbitrary killings, extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, torture and “cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment by the government or its agents.” “Instances of criminal…
houston – TikTok has helped put many local businesses on the map, and this recent trend is spurring new business for one Houston restaurant.This social media platform is expanding its genre beyond being a “dance” app, allowing creators to express their opinions, show off their cooking skills, and save dying businesses by helping owners with free marketing. Now you can even do it.We all know about the influence influencers like Keith Lee and Mr ChimeTime have on TikTok, but they forgot one thing. It’s Bread Zeppelin.So KPRC 2 Senior Digital Content Producer Brittany Taylor visited and sampled a newly opened…
As the countdown to the Lok Sabha elections on Friday approaches like an omen, opposition alliances in Kerala spent the penultimate day sniping at each other on Thursday, indulging in irregularities in setting the election agenda and threatening voters. I made my final pitch. The so-called silent campaign day was anything but quiet. Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president K. Sudhakaran has warned that Left Democratic Front (LDF) convenor EP Jayarajan plans to join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and threatens violence from communists. He accused the government of withdrawing at the last minute out of fear of retribution, igniting…
top line The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Thursday over whether former President Donald Trump has immunity from criminal prosecution for trying to overturn the 2020 election, with the former president’s lawyer D. doubled down on its claim that there is total immunity from criminal prosecution for public officials. Acting in a public office, even if it involves assassinating a political opponent. Anti-Trump demonstrators in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on April 25th.I Can’t Wait for Justice Getty Images important facts Sauer argued Thursday before the Supreme Court that “there would be no presidency as we…
Published April 25, 2024 Dr. Stanley Ekins was appointed to the Order of the Long Leaf Pine by Governor Roy Cooper in recognition of his extraordinary service to East Carolina University and Eastern North Carolina over more than 30 years. Representative Gloristine Brown of North Carolina’s 8th District presented the award to Mr. Eakins at the College of Business’ year-end social and retirement awards ceremony on April 23. “Dean Ekins, you are a very deserving person, and we thank you for your leadership and contributions to North Carolina State,” Brown said. Mr. Eakins served as dean of the College of…
A senior Cuban diplomat has expressed his nation’s commitment to further boosting ties with China but ruled out the possibility of hosting any foreign military bases, even as an intensifying geopolitical feud between China and the United States comes to the Caribbean.On the heels of a Newsweek investigation that revealed previously unseen details regarding Chinese dealings with the tiny Caribbean island nation of Antigua, Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío told Newsweek that “we don’t know of any hostile act against the U.S. by China in the region.””We know it is mentioned by a lot by the U.S.,…
Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s multi-day visit to China this week caps a particularly busy period of meetings between U.S. and Chinese officials. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen visited Beijing earlier this month, where she spoke about improving U.S.-China relations and was photographed drinking beer at a local brewery. On April 5, U.S. and Chinese defense officials held maritime talks for the first time in three years. And on April 16, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin met with his Chinese colleague, Admiral Dong Jun, for the first time since his appointment.But all is not well. Chinese coast guard ships and…
Joe Ravitch and Jeff Sine’s investment advisory firm, The Rain Group, has poured millions of dollars into Hollywood companies such as Imagine Entertainment and Moonbug to profit from the popularity of shows and movies. . Increasingly, this approach is being applied to sports.Mr. Lane was an early investor in DraftKings, which helped establish the U.S. sports betting sector, and has invested at a rate of about three companies a year. He raised a new $760 million fund in 2023 to focus on sports, media and gaming.Like other private equity firms flocking to sports, Lane’s thesis is that even as the…
The Flats – Javian McCallumThe 6-2 guard, who earned All-Big 12 honors at Oklahoma last season, signed a grant to join the Georgia Tech men’s basketball program. He has one season of eligibility with the Yellow Jackets.McCollum started all 30 games in the 2023-24 season as part of a Sooner team that finished with a 20-12 record. He scored a team-leading 13.3 points per game and set school records by shooting 40.4 percent from the floor, 31.4 percent from 3-point range and 94.3 percent from the foul line. He also had 102 assists, second on the team. The Fort Myers,…