The legal action is over online web advertising, the watchdog said. ADVERTISEMENTGoogle is being sued in Canada over alleged anti-competitive conduct in its online web advertising services.Canada’s Competition Bureau said it wants the tech giant to sell off two of its ad tech services, pay a penalty, and stop engaging…

The decision represents growing anti-French sentiment in Chad and the Sahel region, where France has been effectively expelled from several former colonies. ADVERTISEMENTChad announced on Thursday that it is terminating its defence cooperation agreement with France, a move aimed at reasserting its sovereignty and recalibrating its international relations away from…

The European markets continued to underperform global peers following the French political turmoil, although the euro rebounded from a two-year low against the dollar. ADVERTISEMENTThe European stock markets continued to be under pressure, weighed down by both global uncertainties and French political turmoil. In contrast, the post-Trump rally continued on…

The EU executive is looking at the energy used by large language models and standard bodies to calculate a benchmark. ADVERTISEMENTThe European Commission aims to issue special rules governing the environmental impact of artificial intelligence systems through secondary legislation under the AI Act, officials said during an online Commission event today.Laura…

The country’s highly disputed parliamentary elections have drawn widespread condemnation, and Brussels says they should be re-run under international supervision within a year. ADVERTISEMENTThe prime minister of Georgia, Irakli Kobakhidze, has announced he is suspending his country’s EU membership application process until the end of 2028.His announcement came after the…

Even if 50 per cent more plastic was recycled there would still be a pollution problem, a French minister said this week. ADVERTISEMENTIn Busan, South Korea countries are trying to negotiate a landmark treaty to reduce plastic pollution. It is now entering the final stretch of talks before the treaty…

Some Lebanese hospitals could be operational within weeks, officials said, but others will take months to repair. ADVERTISEMENTAs thousands of people who fled heavily bombed parts of Lebanon begin to return amid a tenuous peace deal with Israel, health workers are facing major challenges to restore services there, global health…

Thousands of protesters flooded the streets surrounding the Georgian Parliament to voice their objection to the ruling party’s decision to suspend EU-accession talks. ADVERTISEMENTProtesters clashed with police in the capital Tbilisi on Thursday night after the government suspended talks on its bid to join the European Union for four years. Prime…

The two cables, one running from Finland to Germany and the other from Lithuania to Sweden, were both damaged in Swedish waters last week, in an area where the Yi Peng 3 bulk carrier was seen. ADVERTISEMENTSweden has formally asked China to cooperate in explaining the recent rupture of two…

In some of Alaska’s remotest areas this Thanksgiving, there’s a different kind of bird in the sky – a frozen turkey dropped for residents unable to pick up their own for their holiday table. Alaska native Esther Keim is now in her third straight year of the Alaska Turkey Bomb, a…