Twitter Inc no more enjoys liability protection against user-generated content in India as the U.S. microblogging giant has failed to comply with new IT rules, the Indian government said in a court filing. The statement is the first time Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration has officially said Twitter has lost its immunity after repeatedly criticising… Read More India withdraws Twitter’s immunity over user-generated content
An aeroplane with 28 people on board crashed into the sea on Tuesday off Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka peninsula as it was preparing to land, RIA news agency reported on Tuesday. The plane, an Antonov An-26 twin-engined turboprop, was en route from regional capital Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to Palana, a village in northern Kamchatka, when it lost… Read More Twenty-eight dead as plane crashes into sea in eastern Russia
A court in Belarus on Tuesday sentenced former Belarusian presidential contender Viktor Babariko to 14 years in prison on corruption charges, local media and Russian news agencies reported. Babariko’s team said before the ruling that the charges against their client had been fabricated to thwart his political ambitions. Babariko, the former head of Belgazprombank, was… Read More Belarusian court sentences former presidential candidate to fourteen years imprisonment on corruption charges
South Africa’s ex-leader Jacob Zuma on Friday asked the country’s top court to annul his 15-month jail sentence for failing to appear at a corruption inquiry, saying it was excessive, unjust and might kill him if he catches COVID-19 in prison. The constitutional court sentenced Zuma to 15 months in jail on Tuesday for failing… Read More Former South African President Jacob Zuma asks court to annul jail sentence
Israel agreed on Monday to provide about 700,000 expiring doses of Pfizer-BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine to South Korea, the Haaretz newspaper reported, citing Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. Delivery of the doses is to begin later in July, and as part of the deal Israel will receive in September and October an identical number of Pfizer… Read More Israel, South Korea agree to coronavirus vaccine exchange deal
Democratic Republic of Congo’s former prime minister Matata Ponyo Mapon’s parliamentary immunity was lifted on Monday, as the Senate leadership announced it had authorised a criminal investigation into allegations he misappropriated $140 million. Congo’s public prosecutor last month accused Matata of ordering payments to people without valid claims to government compensation under a law meant… Read More Former Congo PM Matata Ponyo Mapon stripped of immunity over corruption allegations
About 150 students are missing after armed men raided a boarding school in Nigeria’s Kaduna state, a parent and an administrator said on Monday, and police said they were in hot pursuit alongside military personnel. The attack on the Bethel Baptist High School is the 10th mass school kidnapping since December in northwest Nigeria, which… Read More Gunmen raid school, abduct scores of students in northwest Nigeria
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