Nick Timothy , May's co-chief of staff, said on the Conservative Home website that he stepped down on Friday, while the BBC reported that Fiona Hill had also quit. Asked if she is now just a caretaker leader, May noted that "I said during the election campaign that if elected I would intend to serve a full term". [Full Article...]
Speaking at a technology conference in California, Mrs Clinton said Russia's government "could not have known how best to weaponise that information unless they had been guided" by Americans with polling data. "I'm not willing to let my people be thrown under the bus without a fight", Therriault tweeted out. I mean on a personal level, where this woman who has held herself out as a public servant ... [Full Article...]
Qatar faces isolation by fellow Arab countries after Saudi Arabia, Bahrain , United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Egypt severed ties with Doha on Monday, accusing it of supporting Islamist militants and their adversary Iran. In Tillerson's speech, he said that although the emir has made progress halting financial support for terrorist elements and expelling them from the country, "he must do mor... [Full Article...]
Although Merkel did not further elaborate the reasons for her unexpected remarks, many German media speculated that Merkel was referring to her frustrating experience at the G7 meeting earlier this week in Italy's Sicily. It was not a heartening stance. Trump did not take it lying down and used his favorite platform of Twitter to lash out at Germany and ifs insufficient defense spending and tr... [Full Article...]
After nearly three years, Swift has brought her entire music catalog back to music streaming platforms, including Pandora, Spotify, Amazon and Google. At the time , she explained her decision to Yahoo, saying that artists were not being fairly paid for their work. Katy Perry who has been publicly beefing with her just happens to be dropping her latest album called Witness . [Full Article...]
That means no one - not even Apple - can keep track of what you're doing. The speaker will be operated on Siri , Apple's voice technology. Better hope you're using Apple's calendar application. It's still very early days for monetizing personal assistants - Amazon has declined to prognosticate on Alexa as a revenue stream for years. It won't be a huge gap to close, however. [Full Article...]
President Donald Trump's controversial decision to withdraw from the 2015 Paris climate agreement on Thursday sparked additional concerns that US oil production could expand rapidly in the absence of a stringent focus on curbing the use of fossil fuels. [Full Article...]
Until Grillo's Movement started gaining ground in the last few years, Italy's political scene had been dominated for a quarter-century by center-right coalitions, led by media mogul and former premier Silvio Berlusconi, and center-left alliances, now led by ex-premier and Democratic Party leader Matteo Renzi. [Full Article...]