Elon Musk’s X, formerly Twitter, has updated its rules to officially allow adult and graphic content on the platform. Adult content and nudity has been present on Twitter for years and — unlike Facebook or Instagram — was never explicitly banned even before Musk’s takeover in late 2022. The new guidelines, first reported by Tech Crunch on Monday, explicitly permit users to share adult content “as long as it is consensually produced and distributed adult nudity or sexual behavior.” X updated the guidelines over the weekend, stating that “sexual expression, visual or written, can be a legitimate form of artistic…
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Ten stadiums across Germany have been chosen to host matches at Euro 2024. From past and future Champions League final venues to the homes of second division sides, here is a summary: BerlinOriginal name: Olympiastadion Berlin Capacity during the Euros: 71,000 Resident club: Hertha Berlin Usual capacity: 74,500 Inauguration: August 1936, main renovation 2000/2004 In the past: Berlin Olympics host venue 1936; World Cup 2006, including the final; World Athletics Championships 2009; Champions League final 2015 Euro 2024: Three group-stage matches, one last 16, one quarter-final and the final Munich Original name: Allianz Arena Capacity during the Euros: 66,000 Resident…
Uganda’s sexual minorities face escalating human rights violations, with over 1000 cases recorded in the last nine months involving arrests, torture and house evictions among others, according to a report by a pressure group. Members of Uganda’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) community have faced increasing rights violations since early last year when Uganda’s parliament started considering an anti-homosexuality law. The legislation, called the Anti-Homosexuality Act (AHA) was eventually enacted in May last year. Under the law among other tough penalties same-sex intercourse is punishable by life in prison while so called aggravated homosexuality attracts a death sentence. In a…
Nadir Aslam, a German of Moroccan-Pakistani heritage, had been planning to vote Green in this week’s elections to the European Parliament. Instead, he will throw his support behind Mera25, a start-up leftist party with a clear pro-Palestinian stance. Aslam, 33, told Reuters it was a speech last November by a Green leader doubling down on German support for Israel, even as the Gaza death toll neared 9,000, which “destroyed” his support for the ecologist party, a member of Germany’s ruling coalition. This shift in support, echoed across Europe, represents the latest threat – this time from the left – to mainstream…
Nigeria’s main labour unions on Monday shut down the national grid and disrupted flights across the country as they began an indefinite strike over the government’s failure to agree a new minimum wage. The strike began after talks broke down between the government and the country’s two biggest union federations, the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), over increasing the minimum wage. It is the fourth since President Bola Tinubu took office last year. The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) said union members drove operators away at the country’s power control rooms and shut down at least…
Security was tight and access restricted to Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on Tuesday, the 35th anniversary of the June 4 crackdown, while Hong Kong also increased policing as activists in Taiwan and elsewhere prepared to mark the date with vigils. Chinese tanks rolled into the square before dawn on June 4, 1989, to end weeks of pro-democracy demonstrations by students and workers. Television news images of a lone Chinese man in a white shirt standing in front of a column of tanks spread around the world and became the iconic image of the demonstrations. Decades after the military crackdown, rights activists say the…
Vinicius Junior was Monday named by UEFA chiefs as Champions League player of the season after spearheading Real Madrid to European glory, with teammate Jude Bellingham picking up the young player award. Brazilian forward Vinicius scored six goals and made five assists in Real’s victorious campaign, including the second in the 2-0 win against Borussia Dortmund in the final at Wembley on Saturday. Victory meant Real were crowned European champions for a record-extending 15th time. “I’m very happy to be able to win another Champions League with this club, which has given me so much,” 23-year-old Vinicius said. Also Read: Mbappe…
Palestinian Umm Mohammed Khrouat says she would rather live in a tent than the school where she is forced to shelter with her five children in northern Gaza, so bad are the conditions after nearly eight months of war. “There is no hygiene, or water,” said Umm Mohammed, baking bread in a makeshift oven at the school in Jabalia refugee camp, a recent theatre of Israeli military operations in the war against the Palestinian militant group Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Her family, which fled their home in nearby Beit Hanoun early in the war, have been forced to flee…
Toyota Motor (7203.T) and Mazda Motor (7261.T) temporarily halted shipments or sales of some vehicles after Japan’s transport ministry found irregularities in applications to certify their models. The ministry said on Monday irregularities were found in applications to certify models from the two automakers and also from Honda Motor Suzuki Motor and Yamaha Motor. It had ordered Toyota, Mazda and Yamaha to suspend shipments of some vehicles. The developments represent a widening of a safety test scandal among Japanese automakers. The ministry had requested automakers to investigate their vehicle certification applications following a safety test scandal at Toyota’s compact car unit Daihatsu that emerged…
Microsoft (MSFT.O), will invest 33.7 billion Swedish crowns ($3.21 billion) to expand its cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure in Sweden over a two-year period, the U.S. tech group said on Monday. The investment, Microsoft’s biggest to date in Sweden, includes a pledge to help train some 250,000 people with AI skills, corresponding to 2.4% of the population that will help boost the Nordic country’s competitiveness, it added. “This announcement goes beyond technology, it’s a commitment to ensuring broad access to the tools and skills needed for Sweden’s people and economy to thrive in the AI era,” Microsoft Vice Chair and President…
President Cyril Ramaphosa called on South Africa’s political parties to work together for the good of the country as final results from last week’s election confirmed his African National Congress had lost its majority for the first time. The result, announced on Sunday, is the worst election showing for the ANC – Africa’s oldest liberation movement, once led by Nelson Mandela – since it came to power 30 years ago, ending white minority rule. Voters, angry at joblessness, inequality and rolling blackouts, slashed support for the ANC to 40.2%, down from 57.5% in the previous 2019 parliamentary vote. Official results showed…
Israeli forces have ended operations in north Gaza’s Jabalia area after days of intense fighting and over 200 airstrikes, while probing further into Rafah in south Gaza, targeting what they say is the last major redoubt of Hamas battalions. Israeli troops found caches of rocket launchers and other weapons, as well as Hamas tunnel shafts in the centre of Rafah, the military said on Friday, pressing an offensive to break up militant combat units it says are hunkered down in the city on the border with Egypt. In a statement on more than two weeks of fierce fighting in Jabalia,…
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa will be badly weakened after presiding over the African National Congress (ANC) party’s worst election result since the end of apartheid. Results from around 71% of polling stations in Wednesday’s election showed the ANC’s vote share at less than 42%, a sharp drop from the 57.5% it secured at the last election in 2019 and well short of a majority for the first time in 30 years. The electoral blow means the former liberation movement of Nelson Mandela will have to negotiate a coalition deal or other form of agreement with one or more smaller parties to govern the…
Nvidia could soon surpass Apple to become the world’s second-most valuable company, as the biggest beneficiary of the surge in adoption of AI applications takes on the iPhone maker that has been the largest Wall Street firm by market value for years. The reliance of virtually all artificial intelligence applications such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT on Nvidia’s (NVDA.O), high-end chips has helped the stock nearly triple in value over the past year to $2.68 trillion. In contrast, Apple ceded its No. 1 spot to Microsoft (MSFT.O), earlier this year as the once high-flying company grapples with weak demand for its iPhones and tough competition…
Donald Trump said on Friday he would appeal the guilty verdict that made him the first U.S. president convicted of a crime, though he will have to wait until after his sentencing on July 11 before taking that step. In rambling remarks at the Trump Tower lobby in Manhattan where he announced his first presidential run in 2015, Trump repeated his complaints that the trial was an attempt to hobble his comeback White House bid and warned that it showed no American was safe from politically motivated prosecution. “If they can do this to me, they can do this to anyone,”…