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Authorities in Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia order phone checks on residents

Moscow, Russia | AFP | Russian-installed authorities in Ukraine’s occupied region of Zaporizhzhia ordered phone checks on local residents on Thursday, announcing the implementation of military censorship under Russian President Vladimir Putin’s martial law decree. “From today in the Zaporizhzhia region, law enforcement officers have begun a selective preventing check of the mobile phones of citizens,” Moscow-appointed official Vladimir Rogov said. He said those subscribed to “propaganda resources of the terrorist Kyiv regime” will receive […]

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Villarin to file grave misconduct case vs Labor Undersecretary Paras over alleged phone theft incident

(Eagle News) — Akbayan Party-list Rep. Tom Villarin is slated to file a grave misconduct case against Labor Undersecretary Jing Paras after he allegedly stole the lawmaker’s phone. Villarin said he would file the case before the Office of the Ombudsman. “I think that this attitude, this juvenile act of a public official should not be allowed,” Villarin said. According to Villarin, “filing a case with the Ombudsman would serve also some sort of a […]

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Apple challenged to show iPhone star shines

by Glenn Chapman Agence France-Presse SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — With Apple set to report quarterly results Thursday investors and others are cautiously watching to see whether its newest iPhone will help fuel momentum for the world’s most valuable company. Despite Apple’s spectacular trajectory in the decade since the introduction of the iPhone, the California technology titan is facing challenges on whether it can continue growth. Apple’s image meanwhile has been bruised by revelations […]

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Five billion mobile phone users in 2017: study

BARCELONA, Spain (AFP) –The number of mobile phone users globally will surpass five billion by the middle of this year, according to a study released Monday by GSMA, the association of mobile operators. With populations in Asia, and notably India, on the rise, the number, which stood at 4.8 billion a year ago, should mushroom to 5.7 billion, or three quarters of the world’s population, by 2020. Asia will account for around half total growth, […]

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My phone saved my life, Paris attack witness says

A man who survived an explosion near the Stade de France just north of Paris on Friday night (November 13) said his cell phone saved his life by blocking flying debris. Gunmen and bombers attacked restaurants, a concert hall and a sports stadium at locations across Paris on Friday, killing at least 120 people in a deadly rampage that a shaken President Francois Hollande called an unprecedented terrorist attack. Sylvestre, who was walking near the […]

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