LONDON (AFP) – London mayor Sadiq Khan warned yesterday that Eurostar passengers going from Britain to the continent face “chaos” once a new computerised border scheme proposed by the European Union (EU) takes effect. Visitors entering the EU with visas or visa waivers will have to go through the automated EU Entry/Exit System, which has […]
BRUSSELS (AFP) – Apple is prepared to open the iPhone’s ability to tap-to-pay to rivals – in the European Union (EU) – after coming under fire for keeping users in its own ecosystem, the European Commission and the company said on Friday. The commission, the EU’s market regulator, said it was weighing Apple’s proposal, which […]
MEMPHIS (AP) – Vince Williams Jr scored 24, GG Jackson added a career-high 23 points and the Memphis Grizzlies defeated the Golden State Warriors 116-107 yesterday in the return of Draymond Green from his league suspension. Jaren Jackson Jr finished with 18 points despite going four of 20 from the field. For Memphis, which is […]
MEXICO CITY (AP) – A campaign to save Benito the giraffe from extreme temperatures and a small enclosure in Mexico’s arid northern border city of Ciudad Juarez has finally paid off, with officials promising to move him to a more spacious animal park 2,000 kilometres to the south. Benito arrived in Ciudad Juarez, which is […]
GAZA STRIP (AFP) – Fighting raged yesterday across Gaza, where displaced Palestinians are “exhausted” with no end in sight to war between the besieged territory’s Hamas rulers and Israel, now in its 13th week. Smoke billowed over the Gaza Strip’s southern city of Khan Younis, the focus of recent fighting in the grinding war, which […]