Category: US

Starting next month, 1.5 billion Facebook users outside of the European Union, including those in India, will not be governed by the Terms of Service (ToS) framed under its operations in Ireland, news agency Reuters said on Thursday. While the move is being seen as the social networking behemoth’s hedge against the impending stringent General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which comes into force in the European Union on May 25, Facebook claimed that it is “offering everyone who uses Facebook the same privacy protections, controls and settings, no matter where…

“If the meeting, when I’m there is not fruitful, I will respectfully leave the meeting and will continue what we are doing or whatever it is that we’ll continue, but something will happen,” Trump said a day after he told reporters that he is likely to meet Kim in June or before that.

President Donald Trump said that although he’s looking ahead optimistically to a historic summit meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un he could still pull out if he feels it’s “not going to be fruitful.”

MUMBAI: Several international STEM students hoping to work in the United States for a longer duration, post their studies, suddenly find their wings clipped owing to a change in interpretation of employer’s obligations by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), explained on its website. This development applies to the 24 month formal optional practical training (OPT) extension available to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) degree holders. These students now cannot work at the employer’s client sites. In short it means tech companies or even business consultancies, may…

Trump told a joint news conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that his campaign of “maximum pressure” on North Korea would continue until Pyongyang gave up its nuclear weapons.

NEW YORK: A former 911 operator in Houston, who hung up on people calling for emergency services, was sentenced to 10 days in jail and 18 months of probation, authorities said. Crenshanda Williams, 44, was found guilty of interference with emergency telephone calls, Xinhua news agency reported. Williams, who worked at the Houston Emergency Centre for a year and a half till 2016, reportedly had a large number of “short calls” lasting less than 20 seconds. These short calls mostly concerned violent robberies and speeding vehicles. Williams reportedly told investigators…

Flight 1380 became a midair scene of chaos and terror for 149 people on board on Tuesday. With no warning, the plane’s left engine exploded after one of its fan blades broke off. A gust of shrapnel blew out a window, partly sucking one passenger in Row 14 headfirst into the sky.

The Federal Aviation Administration said that the plane landed after the crew reported damage to one of the engines, along with the fuselage and at least one window. They didn’t immediately explain what went wrong. The National Transportation Safety Board sent investigators to the airport.