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Layoffs rock US media amid economic downturn fears

While media layoffs were not as dramatic as those rocking tech giants such as Microsoft and Google, they were consequence of falling advertising revenue amid gloomy economic climate, experts say.

Elon Musk reportedly cutting 75% of Twitter's workforce after buyout

Musk told investors he will get rid of three-fourths of the social media firm’s 7,500 workers, Washington Post reports.

Reuters, NYT, Washington Post among winners of Pulitzer

Pulitzer Prizes, administered by Columbia University and considered the most prestigious in American journalism, recognise work in 15 journalism categories and seven arts categories.

Israel’s dystopian surveillance state targets Palestinians for ‘existing’

Recent reports of the Israeli army’s facial recognition program and the NSO Group’s hacking of activists highlights the ongoing digital repression meted out against Palestinians.

Fuelled by the far-right, domestic terrorism is on the rise in America

Driven primarily by the far-right white supremacists, anti-Muslim and anti-government extremists, domestic terrorism has never peaked this high in the last 25 years, a new study reveals.

Biden says he will make announcement on Saudi Arabia on Monday

President Joe Biden says the US will make an announcement on Saudi Arabia, following an intelligence report that found the crown prince had approved the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

US intel: Saudi crown prince approved op to capture or kill Khashoggi

The Director of National Intelligence has declassified the report that says Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved action against Jamal Khashoggi as the Biden administration is trying to rewrite the balance of its ties with the kingdom.

Can the Saudis strong-arm foreign firms into relocating regional offices?

Riyadh takes a shot at Dubai with an ultimatum to foreign firms on moving their Middle East headquarters to the Kingdom.

Two years after Khashoggi’s murder, a Saudi opposition forms

What the Saudis feared most in Jamal Khashoggi is now becoming a movement.

SpaceX launch marks a new era in the privatisation of space

One small step for man and one giant leap for the commercial space industry.

US discusses holding first nuclear test in decades – report

The discussion by President Donald Trump's administration comes after some US officials reportedly claimed that Russia and China have been holding their own low-yield tests, which both the governments have denied.

China expels American journalists over escalating spat with US

The move escalates a tit-for-tat between China and the United States over resident foreign media that saw Washington this month slash the number of Chinese nationals permitted to work at the US offices of major Chinese state-owned media outlets.