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01 February 2017 • 12:36 AMT
Google wins “right to be forgotten” battle in Japan

The ruling dismisses the cases, which were troubling because the comments in question appeared to be legitimate.

01 February 2017 • 12:15 AMT
Download Festival expands its massive line-up with 48 new bands

Baroness, Steel Panther, Suicidal Tendencies, Sabaton, In Flames and Kvelertak are among the new wave of bands announced for the fest.

01 February 2017 • 12:15 AMT
Damascus rejects Russia’s proposal on Kurdish autonomy in Syria

“The Kurdish cultural self-ruling systems and its organizations use both the Arabic and Kurdish languages equally,” the draft reads.

01 February 2017 • 12:03 AMT
Future Islands announce new album “The Far Field”, share new track

The album will also feature a guest appearance from Blondie’s Debbie Harry on the track “Shadows”.

01 February 2017 • 11:53 AMT
Turkish policeman tries to kill self, causes panic at hospital

According to media reports, the gunman is believed to be a patient at the psychiatric unit of Istanbul’s Cerrahpasa hospital.

01 February 2017 • 11:42 AMT
Iran confirms missile test launch, denies breach of nuke deal

“The action was in line with boosting Iran’s defence power and is not in contradiction with the JCPOA,” Defence Minister Hossein Dehghan said.

01 February 2017 • 11:41 AMT
Films Boutique acquires Daniela Thomas’ Berlinale drama “Vazante”

In the film, the owner of a farmhouse in Brazil’s Diamantina Mountains returns to discover his wife has died in childbirth.

01 February 2017 • 11:35 AMT
Mourinho tells Martial that Henrikh Mkhitaryan is ahead of him

“The players pick themselves. Such a good performance, Mkhitaryan has to play [against Hull]. Simple,” Mourinho said.

01 February 2017 • 11:30 AMT
Wild Bunch nabs Lais Bodanzky’s “Just Like Our Parents”

The film is the first by Lais Bodanzky – one of Brazil’s best-known female directors – to address directly the situation of women in, and beyond, Brazil.

01 February 2017 • 11:14 AMT
French presidential candidate Le Pen refuses to repay “misused EU cash”

The parliament says she wrongly used the funds to pay an aide at the National Front’s headquarters in Paris.

01 February 2017 • 10:31 AMT
“Locked-in” patients can communicate via brain-computer interface

The patients all had advanced forms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, in which the brain loses the ability to control muscles.

01 February 2017 • 10:09 AMT
Filming of untitled Han Solo movie officially underway

Chris Miller, the co-director of the standalone prequel, revealed the exciting news by sharing the very first set photo on his Twitter account.

01 February 2017 • 10:00 AMT
ABC hands pilot order to Toni Collette spy drama “Unit Zero”

The spy drama that follows a brilliant but unassuming CIA engineer and single mom as she leads a team of desk jockeys into the field as secret agents.

01 February 2017 • 10:00 AMT
Reddit’s Alexis Ohanian blasts Trump’s ban as “deeply un-American”

“I’ve always been proud to live in a country that said yes to these shell-shocked immigrants from a strange land,” Ohanian said.

01 February 2017 • 09:43 AMT
Olivia Wilde, Samuel L. Jackson join relationship drama “Life Itself”

Life Itself centers on a couple that lead a multigenerational love story spanning both decades and continents.

01 February 2017 • 09:40 AMT
Invite to Israeli, Palestinian leaders to meet in Moscow still open: Russia

Lavrov said at a conference in Abu Dhabi that Russia was grateful that the two sides had in principle accepted the invitation.

01 February 2017 • 09:26 AMT
EU to financially assist Armenia in anti-corruption fight

Switalski said hopes for rapid economic growth and sustainable development can never be realized without fighting corruption in the country.

01 February 2017 • 09:11 AMT
“American Gods,” “Ghost in the Shell” among SXSW Film Fest lineup

“Song to Song,” starring Rooney Mara, Ryan Gosling, Michael Fassbender and Natalie Portman, is set to open the event.

01 February 2017 • 09:04 AMT
Michael Pena to topline sci-fi thriller “Extinction”

Ben Young will direct the title from a script by Spenser Cohen, Brad Caleb Kane and “Arrival” writer Eric Heisserer.

01 February 2017 • 08:59 AMT
Edko, Memento nab animated Berlin competition film “Have a Nice Day”

The drama features a driver who steals $1 million from his boss in order to fix his girlfriend’s failed plastic surgery.

01 February 2017 • 08:49 AMT
Cyprus not ready for another peace conference: UN

UN envoy Espen Barth Eide criss-crossed the island’s UN-patrolled ceasefire line on the eve of face-to-face talks with the Cypriot leaders.

01 February 2017 • 08:42 AMT
Turkey tourism revenues fell by 30% in 2016

In 2016 income from tourism fell by 29.7 percent compared to the previous year, falling to $22.1 billion (19.7 billion euros).

01 February 2017 • 08:40 AMT
Uber opens its network to self-driving cars

Daimler and Uber have announced a partnership that will see the automaker introduce its own self-driving cars for use on Uber’s ride sharing service.

01 February 2017 • 08:34 AMT
UNICEF launches $3.3 bn appeal to assist children in conflict zones

UNICEF’s 2017 appeal and its goals to provide children with access to safe water, nutrition, education, health and protection.

01 February 2017 • 08:30 AMT
Nintendo kills Wii U console

With the Switch landing globally on March 3, the company wants to usher off its less successful device now as to not draw attention from its replacement.

01 February 2017 • 08:22 AMT
Russia rights commissioner says Lapshin’s extradition unacceptable

According to her, the Russian Constitution provides that a Russian citizen can’t be deported from Russia or extradited to a third state.

01 February 2017 • 08:20 AMT
SoundHound to take on Amazon, Google in AI

SoundHound is one of only a few companies that has built from scratch a core AI technology that can identify and interpret audio.

01 February 2017 • 08:14 AMT
Google Chrome for iOS is now open source

Chrome for iOS has always been kept separate due to the fact that it relies on the WebKit rendering engine rather than Google’s Blink engine.

01 February 2017 • 08:09 AMT
U.S. watchdog unwraps bleak statistics for Afghan progress

John Sopko noted that this latest quarterly report is the first since President Donald Trump took office January 20.

01 February 2017 • 08:02 AMT
Facebook reportedly readying an app for TV boxes

Facebook is in discussions with media companies to license long-form, TV-quality programming, people familiar with the situation said.