Coronavirus: Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf says coronavirus approach 'has failed'
Sweden's king has said his country "failed" to save lives with its relatively relaxed approach to the coronavirus pandemic, describing 2020 as "a terrible year".
King Carl XVI Gustaf made the remarks as part of an annual TV review of the year with the royal family.
Sweden has relied more on guidelines than most countries and has never imposed a full lockdown.
It has seen nearly 350,000 cases and more than 7,800 deaths.
Alibaba offered clients facial recognition to identify Uighur people, report reveals
Software could be used to identify videos filmed and uploaded by Uighur person, says IPVM
The Chinese tech company Alibaba Group Holding Ltd offered facial recognition software to clients which can identify the face of a Uighur person, according to a report.
The US-based surveillance industry research firm IPVM said on Thursday it had found the detection technology in Alibaba’s Cloud Shield service, which offers content moderation for websites.
The technology could be used to identify videos filmed and uploaded by a Uighur person, flagging them for authorities to respond to or take down.
Putin denies Russia poisoned critic Navalny: ‘We would have finished the job’
Russian president breaks silence on state assassination claims
Vladimir Putin has dismissed claims of a state assassination campaign against Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny as the work of American secret services.
Speaking during his annual end of year press conference, the Russian president said Mr Navalny wasn’t “important enough” to be a target for the Kremlin.
Instead, he claimed Western security services were more interested in poisoning the “Berlin patient”. Mr Putin continues to refuse to refer to his most prominent opponent by name.
Disputed Kandinsky won't be returned to Jewish heirs
A court has decided that an Amsterdam museum can keep a painting sold by the Lewenstein family during Nazi occupation, raising questions about art restitution.
An Amsterdam court has ruled on Wednesday that the city’s Stedelijk Museum does not have to return the 1909 painting by Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky to the heirs of its original Jewish owners. The work by the avant-garde artist, titled Painting with Houses, was sold to the museum in October 1940, five months after the German Wehrmacht took over the Netherlands.
The Amsterdam art museum bought Painting with Houses for 160 guilders, a price which was significantly less than its value. "The museum was not acting in good faith," said the family's lawyers.
‘Tired of waiting’: Corruption, economic crises linger a decade after Tunisia's Arab Spring
It was in Sidi Bouzid that Mohamed Bouazizi, a fruit and vegetable salesman angered by police harassment, set himself alight on December 17, 2010.
His act sparked an unprecedented uprising that left some 300 dead but also toppled long-time dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
Ben Ali fled into exile on January 14, 2011, sparking a series of uprisings across the Arab world.
Ghost boat carrying 1,400 pounds of cocaine washes up on remote Pacific island
Updated 0418 GMT (1218 HKT) December 17, 2020
A small, unassuming boat washed up on a remote island in the Pacific last week carrying no passengers -- but loaded with around 1,430 pounds (649 kg) of cocaine.
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