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Fox News to hand over documents for second voting machine lawsuit

Last week, Fox agreed to pay Dominion nearly $800 million to avert a trial, although the ultimate cost to the media company is likely to be much lower

Twitter relaxes cannabis ad rules to lure in more advertisers from US

Going forward, certified advertisers may feature packaged cannabis products in ad creative on Twitter

Facebook parent Meta posts solid Q1 results, revenue up 3%; stock soars

Meta also reported that the monthly user base of its flagship platform Facebook inched close to 3 billion

Nepal to give priority to enhancing relations with both India, China

Nepal is bordered on three sides by India and shares an open border, while the highest Himalayan peaks are divided between Nepal and China

UK blocks Microsoft's $69 bn deal Activision deal over competition fears

British regulators have blocked Microsoft's USD 69 billion deal to buy video game maker Activision Blizzard over worries that it would stifle competition in the cloud gaming market

Silicon Valley company Ohmium raises $250 mn for hydrogen technology

Ohmium's role is to make electrolysers, the devices that take water and split it into hydrogen and oxygen

European Union agrees to boost green fuels for aviation, cut emissions

The EU has also set a goal of reaching climate neutrality by 2050. It says it needs to cut transport emissions by 90 per cent compared to 1990 levels to achieve this

China-Taiwan conflict, former warns self-ruled island against ties with US

President Xi Jinping's government has flown fighter jets and bombers near Taiwan in increasing numbers and fired missiles into the sea in an attempt to intimidate the island

Ukraine sets up tech cluster to boost military capability with drones

The Ukrainian government launched a public fundraising drive last year asking foreign donors to help it build an army of drones

Russia's Lavrov warns that EU is becoming militarised now, like NATO

utin has long complained about NATO's expansion, especially toward his country, and partly used that as a justification for invading Ukraine

S Korean prez opens Washington visit with spotlight on space, mega deals

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol opened his state visit to Washington by touring a NASA facility with Vice President Kamala Harris

Colombia hosts diplomats from 20 countries on Venezuela's political crisis

Diplomats from 20 countries gathered in Colombia to discuss the political crisis in Venezuela, where Nicols Maduro's socialist administration has strengthened its autocratic rule

Ex-New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to join Harvard this year

She will serve as the 2023 Angelopoulos Global Public Leaders Fellow and a Hauser Leader in the school's Center for Public Leadership beginning this fall

Bernie Sanders endorses Biden, rules out his own bid for 2024 election

Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont said Tuesday that he would forgo another presidential bid of his own and instead endorse President Joe Biden's reelection.

Google's persisting ad slump weighs on Alphabet's first quarter results

Google's advertising malaise persisted during the first quarter while the internet company also grapples with advancements in artificial intelligence technology

Microsoft reports 9% boost in profits, revenue, as it expands AI use

Microsoft on Tuesday reported a 9% increase in profit for the January-March quarter, as growth in cloud computing sales helped bolster its plans to expand its use of artificial intelligence

Japanese company's 'high probability' spacecraft crashes on moon

If it had landed, the company would have been the first private business to pull off a lunar landing

Harry Belafonte, civil rights activist and entertainer, dies at 96

Harry Belafonte, the civil rights and entertainment giant who began as a groundbreaking actor and singer and became an activist, humanitarian and conscience of the world, has died. He was 96

EU nations seek to end Ukraine farm import standoff amid Russia's war

Hoping to maintain a unified stance on Russia's war in Ukraine, the European Union looked for a way to satisfy the concerns of member nations facing a destabilizing glut of Ukrainian farm exports

UN fears more 'displacement' from Sudan despite tenuous cease-fire

The UN refugee agency warned Tuesday of further displacement of people from Sudan after thousands streamed into neighbouring Chad and South Sudan despite a tenuous cease-fire