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Parent company of Cambridge Analytica fined £21,000

Parent company of £25m data-mining outfit Cambridge Analytica which harvested details from 87m Facebook accounts for political ads is told to pay just £21,000 for ‘wilfully’ ignoring request to reveal information SCL Elections Ltd admitted failing to comply with a legal notice from the ICO The Information Commissioner’s Office repeatedly ordered SCL to hand over data it held on a […]

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Paraguay cuts diplomatic ties with Venezuela after Maduro sworn in

ASUNCION (Reuters) – Paraguayan President Mario Abdo said on Thursday he was cutting diplomatic ties with Venezuela and was immediately withdrawing his country’s diplomats from Caracas. Abdo made the announcement just minutes after Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was sworn into a new term in office. Maduro has shrugged off global criticism that his leadership is illegitimate due to last year’s […]

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Japan's Abe says he hopes a no-deal Brexit will be avoided

LONDON (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Thursday he hoped Britain and the European Union would avoid a no-deal Brexit. “It is the strong will of Japan to further develop this strong partnership with the UK, to invest more into the country and to enjoy further economic growth with the UK,” Abe said through a translator at […]

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Women groped transgender woman in bar bathroom: cops

Two women in North Carolina have been arrested after groping a transgender woman last month inside a bar bathroom, where they grabbed her and asked if she had a penis, police said. Jessica Leeann Fowler, 31, and Amber Nicole Harrell, both of Raleigh, surrendered to police following the Dec. 9 incident at Milk Bar in Raleigh’s Glenwood South section. A […]

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Trump storms out of shutdown talks with Dems, calls it ‘total waste of time’

More On: donald trump FDA halts food inspections during government shutdown Trump proudly touts border wall as ‘a medieval solution’ Did Schumer and Pelosi draw higher ratings than Trump’s oval office speech? Iran’s supreme leader calls America ‘first-class idiots’ The latest negotiations towards ending the government shutdown crashed and burned Wednesday as President Trump stormed out of a White House […]

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Archaeologists restore ancient Palmyra artifacts in Damascus museum

DAMASCUS (Reuters) – In the National Museum of Damascus, archaeologist Muntajab Youssef works on an ancient stone bust from Palmyra, one of hundreds of artifacts his team is painstakingly restoring after they were damaged by Islamic State. Centuries-old statues and sculptures were wrecked by the jihadists when they twice seized control of the old city in central Syria during the […]

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