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Bashar al-Assad’s uncle has £26m London property seized in fraud case 0
- BUSINESS
- June 17, 2020
A French court has ordered the seizure of a £26m London property belonging to the uncle of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad after he was found guilty of fraud. Rifaat al-Assad was found guilty of acquiring millions worth of property in France and London using funds diverted from the Middle Eastern state. He was sentenced to
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UK govt to cut Huawei 5G kit use ‘to zero by 2023’ after pressure from Tory MPs, Uncle Sam • The Register 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- May 23, 2020
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has reportedly agreed to a plan that will entirely cut Huawei equipment from the nation’s 5G networks within the next three years. The word from Britain late on Friday, strategically via the Guardian and Telegraph, is that Johnson has caved after months of pressure from the backbench of his right-wing
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If American tech is used to design or make that chip, you better not ship it to Huawei, warns Uncle Sam • The Register 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- May 17, 2020
The Trump administration on Friday officially clamped down on the use of US technology worldwide to manufacture chips for Huawei, cutting off the mega-corp from vital semiconductor supply chains. Last year, the Chinese telecoms kit maker, along with its chip wing HiSilicon and 113 subsidiaries, were blacklisted by the US Department of Commerce on the
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Oh good. Uncle Sam is building the world’s most powerful super computer… to sim nuclear weapon tests • The Register 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- March 4, 2020
The US Department of Energy has commissioned the world’s fastest supercomputer, expected to be 10 times more powerful than current machines, to test nuclear weapons using computational simulations. Aptly named El Capitan, the beast first crossed our radar in 2018, when it popped up on a budget request to US Congress. The stonking behemoth tops
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from her diplomat uncle to cannabis-growing nephew, who will meet the royal baby boy?0
- BUSINESS
- May 8, 2019
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex revealed their newborn son to the world on Wednesday, just two days after Buckingham Palace had announced the birth. The now-retired American actress and her royal husband maintained an element of secrecy around the arrangements for the birth, initially saying they would only announce the baby’s arrival “once they have
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Missing Game of Thrones characters – will Jaqen H’ghar, Uncle Benjen Stark and Daario Naharis return in season 8?0
- BUSINESS
- April 22, 2019
As the final season of Game of Thrones kicks into full swing, many viewers have been doing a rewatch of all seven seasons to get up to speed again before the saga of the Seven Kingdoms draws to a close. But if you haven’t had time to binge before season 8 gets to the big bits, or are
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