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The Deutsche Telekom pavilion at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.Angel Garcia | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesBARCELONA — Europe’s telecommunication firms are ramping up calls for more industry consolidation to help the region compete more effectively with superpowers like the U.S. and China on key technologies like 5G and artificial intelligence.Last week at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) trade show in Barcelona, CEOs of several telecoms firms called on regulators to make it easier for them to combine their operations with other businesses and reduce the overall number of carriers operating across the continent.Currently, there are numerous telco players operating…

Caitlin Clark appeared to take a playful jab at her Indiana Fever teammate Lexie Hull. The 2024 WNBA Rookie of the Year left a comment under a post from Hull showing off one of her pregame fits. Hull has spent the past few weeks in Miami playing for Rose Basketball Club. The team is competing in the inaugural season of Unrivaled, a professional three-on-three women’s basketball league. Lexie Hull #10 and Caitlin Clark #22 of the Indiana Fever look on during the game against the Seattle Storm at Climate Pledge Arena on June 27, 2024 in Seattle, Washington. (Steph Chambers/Getty Images)”Dude…

BANGKOK: Thailand has announced Bangkok, Chonburi, Chiang Mai and Phuket as the first four locations for its entertainment complexes that will house casinos. The locations were chosen because they are major tourist provinces, Nikom Boonwiset, vice-chairman of a special committee overseeing the entertainment complex project, said on Thursday (Mar 13) as reported by news outlet Bangkok Post. The announcement of the locations comes two months after Thailand’s Cabinet approved a draft law that would legalise gambling and casinos. Most forms of gambling are illegal in Thailand but underground betting is commonplace, and certain state-run horse races and an official lottery…

As US President Donald Trump sat in the Oval Office on February 28 with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for an explosive meeting that would reveal deep fissures between Washington and Kyiv, he was also asked by a reporter about another world leader: Vladimir Putin. In the very setting in which he joined forces with Vice President JD Vance to berate Zelenskyy for not being grateful to the US for its military and financial aid, and for not backing his attempts at diplomacy with Moscow, Trump had more sympathetic words for the Russian president. “Let me tell you, Putin went through…

When President Trump appointed his friend Steven Witkoff to be his Middle East envoy last November, the choice prompted head-scratching in diplomatic circles.Many foreign officials had never heard of Mr. Witkoff, a billionaire New York real estate developer who has known Mr. Trump since the mid-1980s. The president’s new envoy not only lacked expertise in the region apart from some business dealings, he had no diplomatic experience.That didn’t matter to a president who considers Washington credentials a liability and views foreign policy as a series of business transactions. And Mr. Trump was impressed by Mr. Witkoff’s ability to help the…

An American Airlines flight caught fire at Denver International Airport on Thursday. American flight 1006 departed Colorado Springs and was bound for Dallas Fort Worth International Airport when the plane was diverted to Denver, an airline spokesperson told Fox News Digital. The aircraft was taxiing to the gate after landing and “experienced an engine-related issue.” The blaze started around 6 p.m. local time. DARING AIRPORT TREND HAS TRAVELERS ARRIVING AT GATE 15 MINUTES BEFORE TAKEOFF American Airlines plane catches fire at Denver International Airport. (X / @flynnstone)”The 172 customers and six crew members deplaned and are being relocated to the terminal,” the airline…

The scale of the economic impact of the trade war between Canada and the U.S. is not yet clear, but a non-profit organization that works with homeless Edmontonians says it fears the tariff showdown could intensify an already challenging situation that it currently faces. “We have never had this many people coming to our doors in need of help,” Tim Pasma, the Hope Mission’s director of programs and homelessness, said in a news release issued Thursday.“The trade war and worsening economy will push more people onto the streets who were already struggling, and will have a devastating impact on people…

Carlos Alcaraz has put on a show with his acrobatic shotmaking under the lights in California to close out the day’s BNP Paribas Open action.Two-time defending champion Alcaraz overcame a 4-1 second-set deficit to defeat Francisco Cerundolo 6-3 7-6 (7-4) and will play Jack Draper in the semi-finals after the Briton dispatched Ben Shelton 6-4 7-5 in a battle of lefties.Shelton, at 22 the youngest American man to reach the quarters at Indian Wells since 2004, couldn’t go further.The 13th-seeded Draper will face No.2 seed Alcaraz, who extended his winning streak at the ATP 1000 event to 16 matches with…

HANOI: A Vietnamese court jailed eight people on Friday (Mar 14) over a fire that tore through a Hanoi apartment block in 2023, killing 56 in the country’s deadliest blaze in two decades. The building had only a single exit and no emergency ladder on the outside and neighbours and residents reported hearing screams as people struggled to escape the flames through barred windows. The owner of the nine-storey block deserved “the most serious punishment” for the blaze in September 2023, the verdict said, convicting him of violating fire prevention regulations and giving him a 12-year term. Seven local officials…