The 24-hour deadline given by Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court to Meta to show that its algorithms and artificial intelligence treat President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Senator Flávio Bolsonaro equally expires on Tuesday, five days before the runoff. If the owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp fails to show compliance, the daily fine will double from 500,000 to one million reais.
As the threat of a reclassification by MSCI that could relegate Indonesia to an investment hinterland looms, the country’s financial regulators and stock exchange officials have vowed to address systemic concerns, including removing stocks with concentrated ownership. The global index provider announced on Friday it was launching a formal consultation to decide whether to downgrade Southeast Asia’s largest economy from “emerging market” to “stand-alone” status, similar to countries such as...
As haze from forest fires in Indonesia continues to shroud Southeast Asia, Malaysians have taken to social media to air their grievances, with a video of an elevated outdoor reading from an air purifier among viral content marking public frustration. The clip, posted by user syahierarafie, shows a device detecting an Air Pollutant Index (API) of up to 318 in Gelang Patah, a suburban town in western Johor Bahru which borders Singapore. The video has drawn over 990,000 views as of Tuesday. “Today,...
France’s first night under curfew passed without incident, as authorities sought to restore order following a weekend of demonstrations that escalated into riots. The government will impose further curfews where necessary on Tuesday, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said. FRANCE 24 International Affairs Editor Philip Turle tells us more.
An increasing number of Chinese celebrities are voluntarily sharing their histories of mental illness, rather than following the previous practice of keeping them hidden, in what some see as an effort to win empathy and audience support. These conditions include depression, anxiety, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). In January last year, famous actress Zhao Lusi’s suspension of work due to severe depression put celebrities’ mental health...
Shop owners in France are counting the cost of the weekend's riots as the government works on new measures to help them recover from widespread looting. Also in this edition: Germany welcomes new investments from Nvidia into its tech scene, and energy prices continue to climb after new Houthi attacks in Saudi Arabia.
New York federal judge Loretta Preska has vacated her 2023 judgment ordering Argentina to pay more than US$16 billion over the expropriation of oil company YPF and formally closed the case at first instance. Its future now depends on whether the US Supreme Court agrees to review it, as litigation funder Burford Capital requested in early October.
Following weekend protests and riots across the country, curfews have been imposed by the government in some parts of Paris and several cities in France. In Paris, the night passed without any disturbance as FRANCE 24's Emerald Maxwell reports. French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said that local authorities can decide to extend curfews if necessary.
Argentine President Javier Milei flew to Madrid on Monday night on his third visit of the year to Spain and his seventh since taking office, in the middle of the campaign for the snap general election on November 29. His agenda includes a meeting with the president of the Madrid regional government, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, of the People’s Party, but, as on previous visits, no meeting with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.
French President Emmanuel Macron has obtained commitments to deliver an additional 200,000 tonnes of diesel per month from the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain during a tour of the Gulf, his office said Tuesday as the French government scrambles to address a cost-of-living crisis that has fuelled unrest in the country.
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