Visa Inc said on Wednesday it would allow usage of its cards on Pornhub-owner MindGeek’s platforms that host professionally produced adult studio content, but would continue to decline processing payments coming from Pornhub itself. Visa said its ban remains in effect for those websites that host user-generated content, the most popular being Pornhub, until an… Read More Visa maintains suspension of card usage on Pornhub
U.S. President Donald Trump vetoed a $740 billion bill setting policy for the Department of Defense on Wednesday, despite its strong support in Congress, raising the possibility that the measure will fail to become law for the first time in 60 years. Trump said he vetoed the annual National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, because… Read More U.S. President Donald Trump vetoes $740billion defense bill
Yulia Galyamina, a Moscow city councillor and critic of the Kremlin, was given a a two-year suspended jail term on Wednesday after being found guilty of repeatedly violating rules for organising opposition protests. Galyamina, who took part in an opposition campaign against constitutional reforms this year that could allow President Vladimir Putin to remain in… Read More Moscow court gives opposition politician Yulia Galyamina two-year suspended sentence over reforms protests
Gunmen killed more than 100 people in a dawn attack in the western Benishangul-Gumuz region of Ethiopia on Wednesday, the human rights commission said, as residents described fleeing the latest deadly assault in an area bedevilled by ethnic violence. The attack occurred in the village of Bekoji in Bulen county in the Metekel zone, the… Read More Scores dead as gunmen attack village in Ethiopia’s Benishangul-Gumuz region
Around 500 relatives of people who died of COVID-19 in Italy said on Wednesday they were initiating legal action against regional and national authorities, seeking 100 million euros ($122 million) in damages. The civil lawsuit, which the plaintiffs said they would present to a Rome court in the next few hours, is against Prime Minister… Read More Families of Italian coronavirus victims file $122million lawsuit against government
Russia’s Foreign Ministry on Wednesday declared two Colombian diplomats personae non gratae in a tit-for-tat move after the expulsion of two Russians diplomats from the South American country. The Russian foreign ministry said it had summoned the Colombian ambassador on December 22 to protest against the “groundless decision” to expel two diplomats from the Russian… Read More Russia expels two Colombian diplomats in retaliatory move
Russia’s lower house of parliament voted on Wednesday to pass legislation allowing authorities to block or restrict websites like YouTube if they “discriminate” against Russian media on their sites. The authors of the legislation cited complaints from Russian media outlets RT and the RIA news agency about what they described as the “censorship” of their… Read More Russian lawmakers pass laws bordering on websites and local media
Fire broke out on Wednesday in a migrant centre in northwestern Bosnia where about 1,200 people had been accommodated, the regional police said. Local web portal Klix reported the fire in the section of the Lipa camp where oil and generators for electric power production had been stored. It published pictures showing black smoke above… Read More Fire breaks out at migrant centre in northwestern Bosnia
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