September 11, 2021 VENICE (Reuters) – Looking radiant and holding hands, singer Jennifer Lopez and actor Ben Affleck arrived for the Venice Film Festival on Thursday, getting into a water taxi to be whizzed off to their luxury hotel in the lagoon city. Affleck is in Venice for the festival premiere of Ridley Scott’s medieval epic […]
Company bosses face ethical dilemmas in French film premiering in Venice
September 11, 2021 By Silvia Aloisi VENICE (Reuters) – The tension between labour and profit in globalised, market-oriented economies is at the centre of French director Stéphane Brizé’s new film “Another World”, the story of a plant manager who is asked by his bosses to lay off his own workers. The movie, which premieres at […]
Abimael Guzman, founder of Peruvian rebel group Shining Path, dies at 86
September 11, 2021 By Marcelo Rochabrun LIMA (Reuters) -Abimael Guzman, leader of the Shining Path rebels who nearly toppled the Peruvian state in a bloody Maoist revolution, died on Saturday while in prison and following several weeks of poor health, the government said. He was 86. Guzman was captured in 1992 in Lima and jailed […]
Anger as Spanish wildfire blazes for fourth day
September 11, 2021 By Mariano Valladolid and John Nazca ESTEPONA, Spain (Reuters) – A wildfire raging close to a popular Costa del Sol resort was still active on Saturday, and locals spoke of their anger about the blaze, which is believed to have been started deliberately. Andalucia’s regional forest fire agency said conditions had improved […]
China roundup: Tencent takes on sites trying to circumvent its age limits
Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people in the rest of the world. The enforcement of China’s new gaming regulations is unfolding like a cat-and-mouse game, with the country’s internet giants and young players constantly trying to outsmart each […]
Abimael Gumzan, founder of Peruvian rebel group Shining Path, dies
September 11, 2021 LIMA (Reuters) – Abimael Guzman, the founder of Peruvian rebel group Shining Path that killed tens of thousands in the 1980s and 1990s, died on Saturday at 86, Peruvian authorities said in a tweet. Guzman had been reportedly in poor health in recent months and had been imprisoned since 1992. (Reporting by […]
Tennis-On verge of surpassing Federer and Nadal, Djokovic still not No. 1 in fans’ hearts
September 11, 2021 By Joseph Ax and Rory Carroll NEW YORK (Reuters) – Moments after Novak Djokovic reached the U.S. Open final on Friday and moved one step from clinching an elusive calendar Grand Slam, a group of fans in Arthur Ashe Stadium unfurled a banner with a photo of the smiling Serb. “Like It […]
Obama, Queen Elizabeth, U.S. senators remember 9/11
September 11, 2021 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former presidents, world leaders and U.S. lawmakers reflect on the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. BILL CLINTON, 42nd U.S. PRESIDENT “America will never forget those who lost their lives, those who risked or gave their own lives to save others, and those whose […]
On 9/11 anniversary, Afghans blame departed US forces for their woes
September 11, 2021 (Reuters) – War-weary residents of Kabul expressed anger and feelings of betrayal by the United States on Saturday, as the world marked the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks that prompted a U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and the toppling of its Taliban rulers. After a two-decade occupation, U.S. forces abruptly pulled out […]
What’s happening in venture law in 2021?
The venture world is growing faster than ever, with more funding rounds, bigger funding rounds, and higher valuations than pretty much any point in history. That’s led to an exponential growth in the number of unicorns walking around, and has also forced regulators and venture law researchers to confront a slew of challenging problems. The […]
The legal world needs to shed its ‘unicorniphobia’
Alexander I. Platt Contributor Alexander I. Platt is an associate professor at the University of Kansas School of Law. Once upon a time, a successful startup that reached a certain maturity would “go public” — selling securities to ordinary investors, perhaps listing on a national stock exchange and taking on the privileges and obligations of […]
India, Australia eye closer security ties as 9/11 anniversary marked
September 11, 2021 By Nidhi Verma and Aftab Ahmed NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India and Australia vowed on Saturday to deepen their security cooperation, especially following the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan, as the world marks the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the United States. India and Australia, along with the United States and […]
U.S. reassures allies over Nord Stream 2 but says it’s a ‘reality’
September 11, 2021 By Matthias Williams KYIV (Reuters) – A senior U.S. envoy said on Saturday he had delivered reassurances to Ukraine and Poland on mitigating any threat posed by Russia’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, but that the project was now a “reality”. Amos Hochstein, the State Department’s senior adviser for energy security, told […]
Green investments to be part of EU budget rules review -Dombrovskis
September 11, 2021 BRDO, Slovenia (Reuters) – The possibility of exempting “green” investments from EU deficit calculations will form part of discussions when EU budget rules are revised, European Commission Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis said on Saturday. The idea to exempt investments that would help prevent climate change is to support the bloc’s ambition to […]
Tunisia’s labour union seeks elections before constitution change
September 11, 2021 TUNIS (Reuters) -Tunisia’s powerful labour union, the UGTT, on Saturday called for elections to form a new parliament to debate changing the political system, an implicit rejection of any move by the president to do so directly via a referendum. President Kais Saied seized governing powers on July 25, citing an emergency […]
20 years later, unchecked data collection is part of 9/11’s legacy
John Ackerly Contributor Share on Twitter John Ackerly is co-founder and CEO of Virtru Corporation. Previously, he was an investor at Lindsay Goldberg LLC, served as a technology policy adviser at the White House and was the Policy and Strategic Planning director at the U.S. Department of Commerce. Almost every American adult remembers, in vivid […]
Afghanistan remittance payouts limited to local currency – sources
September 11, 2021 By Tom Arnold LONDON (Reuters) – Afghanistan’s central bank has ordered banks to pay out remittances in local currency only, the latest move to preserve scarce U.S. dollars, say sources familiar with the matter. Hard currency remittances have formed an important source of external finance for Afghanistan over the years but dollar […]
Motor racing-Sainz crashes as Hamilton leads final Italian GP practice
September 11, 2021 (Reuters) – Carlos Sainz crashed his Ferrari heavily in final practice for the team’s home Italian Grand Prix on Saturday as seven-times Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton was fastest for Mercedes. The Spaniard halted the session when he smashed head-on into the barriers at the Ascari chicane with just over half […]
Iran invites IAEA chief for talks before showdown with West – diplomats
September 11, 2021 VIENNA/DUBAI (Reuters) – U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi will fly to Tehran this weekend for talks that may ease a standoff between Iran and the West just as it risks escalating and scuppering negotiations on reviving the Iran nuclear deal, diplomats said on Saturday. Three diplomats who follow the International Atomic […]
Three killed after gas explosion destroys residential building in Russia
September 11, 2021 MOSCOW (Reuters) – Three people died, including an 11-year-old girl, after a gas explosion caused a two-storey apartment building to partially collapse in a Russian village early on Saturday, head of the Lipetsk region Igor Artamonov said. Video footage showed major structural damage to the building in Solidarnost, a village 400 km […]
