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China reaches out to U.S. over demand that state-run outlets register as foreign agents
China has reached out to the U.S. over reports that the Department of Justice has ordered two top Chinese state-run news outlets to register as foreign agents, a spokesman said Wednesday, adding that Beijing opposed "politicizing" the role of the media. Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng ...
Warning to Naomi Osaka: Playing for Japan can seriously shorten your career
Naomi Osaka's decision to represent the country she left at the age of 3 may be good for her bottom line but not necessarily her longevity.
Trove of documents shows WikiLeaks' Julian Assange sought Russian visa in 2010
Julian Assange had just pulled off one of the biggest scoops in journalistic history, splaying the innards of American diplomacy across the web. But technology firms were cutting ties to his website, WikiLeaks, cable news pundits were calling for his head and a Swedish ...
Echoing some of U.S. President Donald Trump's rhetoric, authorities in Egypt are taking aim at an alleged barrage of "fake news" they say is meant to sow division and undermine the rule of general-turned-president Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi. Under a new law, the state's top media regulatory ...
Salesforce co-founder Marc Benioff buys Time magazine for $190 million
Time Magazine is being sold by Meredith Corp. to Marc Benioff, a co-founder of Salesforce, and his wife, it was announced Sunday. Meredith announced that it was selling Time magazine for $190 million in cash to Benioff, one of four co-founders of Salesforce, a cloud ...
Myanmar's Suu Kyi at World Economic Forum defends jailing of two Reuters journalists
Myanmar government leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Thursday the jailing of two Reuters journalists had nothing to do with freedom of expression and they can appeal against their seven-year sentences. Suu Kyi, in her first public comment on the case since the two ...
European Parliament backs copyright reform in blow to global tech firms
The European Parliament on Wednesday approved a controversial EU copyright law that hands more power to news and record companies against internet giants like Google and Facebook, which promised to fight on. The watershed vote in the French city of Strasbourg confirmed the European Union ...
Melbourne's Herald Sun reprints 'racist' cartoon of Serena Williams
An Australian newspaper republished a controversial cartoon of tennis star Serena Williams on its front-page Wednesday, dismissing as "politically correct" accusations that the drawing was racist and sexist. Melbourne's Herald Sun cartoonist Mark Knight's caricature of Williams throwing a tantrum at the U.S. Open was ...
Suu Kyi's image in tatters as Myanmar imprisons Reuters pair
The jailing of two Reuters journalists shreds what remains of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's reputation as a rights champion, critics say, after she failed to come to their defense or speak up for the persecuted Rohingya minority. Suu Kyi was once a staunch ...
China state TV sorry for 12 minutes of ads before education program
China's state broadcaster issued an apology Sunday after parents complained that a compulsory television program targeted at millions of school children was preceded by almost a quarter of an hour of non-stop advertising. All elementary and middle school students and their parents were told by ...
China has blocked access to the website of Australia's national broadcaster for breaching Beijing's internet rules and regulations, the Australia Broadcasting Corp. said Monday. It comes a year after the ABC began running a Chinese-language service. ABC said access to its website and apps was blocked ...
If elections were decided by viral videos and fawning media profiles, Democrat Beto O'Rourke would win Texas' Senate race in a landslide. Video of the candidate defending NFL players' right to protest during the national anthem had been viewed by millions even before NBA star ...
