WhatsApp users who do not accept its updated terms and conditions by the 15 May deadline will be unable to receive or send messages until they do so. Their account will be listed as “inactive”. And inactive accounts can be deleted after 120 days. Calls and notifications will still function for “a short while” but, TechCrunch reported, probably only a “few weeks” . WhatsApp announced the update in January. There was a backlash among many users who thought it meant the company was planning to change the amount of data it shared with its parent company, Facebook. It later clarified…
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was arrested in the United States and accused of helping her husband run his multibillion-dollar cartel and plot his audacious escape from a Mexican prison in 2015. Emma Coronel Aispuro, a 31-year-old former beauty queen, was arrested at Dulles International Airport in Virginia on Monday and is expected to appear in federal court in Washington on Tuesday. She is a dual citizen of the United States and Mexico. Her arrest is the latest twist in the bloody, multinational saga involving Guzman, the longtime head of the Sinaloa…
Donald Trump has been ordered by the US Supreme Court to hand over his tax returns and other financial records to prosecutors in New York.The former US president has been refusing to release the documents for several years, despite a precedent that presidential candidates should do so.A lower court had earlier ruled that the records were pertinent to a criminal investigation.The ruling does not necessarily mean the files will be made public. The financial documents should be provided as evidence to a grand jury to be scrutinised in secret, and might only later become public as part of an indictment.A…
WASHINGTON (AP) — With sunset remarks and a national moment of silence, President Joe Biden on Monday confronted head-on the country’s once-unimaginable loss — half a million Americans in the COVID-19 pandemic — as he tried to strike a balance between mourning and hope. Addressing the “grim, heartbreaking milestone” directly and publicly, Biden stepped to a lectern in the White House Cross Hall, unhooked his face mask and delivered an emotion-filled eulogy for more than 500,000 Americans he said he felt he knew. “We often hear people described as ordinary Americans. There’s no such thing,” he said Monday evening. “There’s…
A father-to-be from New York state has died after a device he was building for his child’s gender-reveal party exploded, according to police. Christopher Pekny, 28, was assembling the device in the town of Liberty when it exploded just before noon on Sunday. Police said the blast killed Mr Pekny and injured his brother Michael Pekny, 27, who was taken to hospital. Gender-reveal parties are celebrations announcing whether expecting parents are going to have a girl or a boy. Police have not specified what device caused Sunday’s explosion. New York’s state police department and its bomb disposal unit are investigating…
Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of Christopher Greaves, 67 years old Watchman of Vermont, whose partly decomposed body was discovered in the vicinity of the Emeral Valley Casino, Vermont on 21.02.2020. According to investigations, Greaves who was employed as a Watchman at the Emeral Valley Casino was discovered by residents in the area about 08:45 a.m. on 21.02.2021. A post mortem examination was conducted on the body to ascertain the cause of death and it was concluded that Greaves died as a result of multiple blunt trauma injuries to the chest and the back of the head.…
St. Vincent and the Grenadines recorded six (6) new COVID-19 cases from patients seen on February 21st and 22nd. Three (3) cases are from rapid antigen tests done on persons seeking care at the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital on Sunday February 21st, bringing to four (4) the total number of positive cases for that day. Only sixteen (16) PCR samples were collected and tested on Sunday 21st. All were negative. The other three (3) new positive cases, also from rapid antigen tests, were done on Monday 22nd. At the time of preparation of this release there was no additional information…
The European Union (EU) on Monday removed Barbados from the so-called blacklist of jurisdictions considered non-cooperative for tax purposes but added Dominica because it said the island still does not fully meet international standards. “Dominica has been included in the EU list as it received a ‘partially compliant’ rating from the Global Forum [for Transparency and Exchange of Information] and has not yet resolved this issue,” the Council of the EU said in a statement. Barbados was added to the EU list in October 2020 after it received a ‘partially compliant’ rating from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development…
Caribbean music lovers will finally get access to Spotify as the streaming company announced today that it is expanding across 80 countries over the next few days. Spotify will soon be available in Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Jamaica, Curaçao, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana and Haiti. The announcement was made at the company’s Stream On event. “As part of our ongoing commitment to building a truly borderless audio ecosystem— connecting creators, listeners, and content—Spotify is embarking on a sweeping expansion that will introduce the…
FEBRUARY 22, 2021 8:00 PM 1. Due to overcast conditions and very high winds over the last few days, it was impossible for the drone flight to be conducted in order to make visual observations of the conditions inside the volcano and survey the new dome. However, satellite images of La Soufriere Volcano taken on February 17, 2021 confirm that the new dome continues to grow slowly. 2. NEMO staff will be conducting a drive through in the Rose Hall Community on Tuesday 23rd February 2021. The purpose of this drive through is to update residents on the state of…