Facebook Chief Executive, Mark Zuckerberg, said harmful online content should be regulated, adding that his company should be treated with a framework in between those used for existing media and telecoms companies. “I do think that there should be regulation on harmful content … there’s a question about which framework you use for this,’’ Zuckerberg […]

Top US officials fired a fresh broadside at Huawei on Saturday, warning the Chinese tech giant posed a threat to NATO if allies allowed it to build new 5G communications networks. Washington has been pressing European allies hard to ban Huawei, one of the world’s largest tech firms, from next-generation mobile data networks, saying it […]

French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday warned that Russia would continue to try to “destabilise” Western democracies by interfering in elections, social media manipulation and other acts of cyber warfare. Moscow would carry out its work “either through private actors, directly through its agencies, or through proxies”, Macron said at the Munich Security Conference. Russia […]

An activist couple on Friday decided to spend their Valentine’s Day to demonstrate detest for the construction of a canal. An activist in the bed told DW the stunt finally raised global awareness of the canal’s environmental impacts. Climate activist Mayra Wojciechowicz thought of no worthier way to spend Valentine’s Day than jumping into bed […]

A Cairo criminal court sentenced the brother of a former Egyptian finance minister to 30 years in jail on Saturday for smuggling antiquities out of the country, a judicial source said. Raouf Ghali, the sibling of Hosni Mubarak-era finance minister Youssef Ghali, was sentenced to 30 years in jail and fined 6 million pounds ($380,000) […]