1/3 Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, announced that they have approved another round of sanctions on Friday targeting Russia’s economy over the invasion of Ukraine. Photo courtesy of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen/Twitter Feb. 24 (UPI) — The European Union, Australia, Taiwan and Japan […]
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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia will open its borders to all vaccinated tourists and business travelers from Feb. 21 in a further relaxation of pandemic restrictions announced Monday. Australia imposed some of the world’s toughest travel restrictions on its citizens and permanent residents in March 2020 to prevent them from […]
Humanitarian aid is unloaded from a C-17A Globemaster III at airport, near Nuku’alofa, Tonga, Thursday. Photo by LACW Emma Schwenke/RAAF/EPA-EFE Jan. 22 (UPI) — Australia, New Zealand, and Japan have delivered aid amid a […]
You might not have driven an electric car just yet, but in the not-so-distant future – we’re talking potentially within the next ten-or-so years – they will likely be the only kind of car the big manufacturers are making. © Provided by Business Insider Australia By 2030, many car companies […]
Image: Asha Barbaschow/ZDNet Australia Post has developed a pilot ruggedised smartphone-based solution that it hopes can eventually replace up to eight different devices used by staff to service customers across its network of 4,000 post offices. “We have large numbers of devices in our stores that are largely shared between […]
The Australian Government Friday unveiled a draft of the new mandatory code of conduct that would force tech giants Google and Facebook to pay for news on their platforms. The document developed by the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission will be open for public review through August 28 and go […]
Australia is getting closer to moving ahead with controversial legislation that will make the U.S. tech giants pay local companies for news. Other measures to contain their influence are also on the cards. The “Draft Mandatory Code of Conduct Governing Digital Platforms and Media Businesses” was announced on Friday by […]
By Colin Packham SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia will force U.S. tech giants Facebook Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google to pay Australian media outlets for news content in a landmark move to protect independent journalism that will be watched around the world. Australia will become the first country to require Facebook […]
Australia unveiled a draft law Friday to force Google and Facebook to pay news media for their content in a “world-leading” initiative sure to prompt a confrontation with the US digital giants. Treasurer Josh Frydenberg announced the “mandatory code of conduct” to govern relations between the struggling news industry and […]
SYDNEY (AP) — Australia’s Victoria state recorded 10 deaths overnight from COVID-19, its highest daily toll amid a continuing surge in coronavirus cases. State Premier Daniel Andrews said Sunday that the deaths included seven men and three women. A man in his 40s became one of the youngest COVID-19 fatalities […]