Month: October 2021

The Guardian says from bereft Brazilians to relaxed Russians and internet-savvy Indians, Facebook’s outage highlighted the dependence much of the world has developed on its social media products.

The Guardian says Facebook puts “astronomical profits before people”, harms children and is destabilising democracies, a whistleblower has claimed in testimony to the US Congress.

The Metro says former President Donald Trump has fallen off Forbes’ 400 richest Americans list for the first time in 25 years, in part due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The Independent says a public inquiry into the failures that let Sarah Everard’s murderer remain a police officer is a “wasted opportunity” without legal powers.

BBC News says Boris Johnson is to promise that his government will show more “guts” than any before as it works to deal with issues facing society and the economy.

The Guardian says about 200 people gathered on Tuesday evening for a vigil in memory of the schoolteacher Sabina Nessa, who was killed three weeks ago.

Sky News says France has again threatened to cut the UK off from energy supplies if the terms of the Brexit deal aren’t stuck to.

France24 says heavy rains swept across much of southern France, inundating the city of Aix-en-Provence and leaving France’s second-largest city Marseille under a blanket of trash.

Arab News says the US is alarmed by Iran’s progress toward obtaining an atomic weapon and hopes to resume talks soon to curb Tehran’s nuclear program.

Aljazeera says tens of thousands of Vietnamese who once made a living in Ho Chi Minh City, the country’s COVID-19 epicentre, are returning to their home provinces.