Month: August 2024

Prosecutors investigate gender-based cyber harassment of Olympic boxer Imane Khelif

PARIS — French prosecutors opened an investigation into an online harassment complaint made by Olympic boxing champion Imane Khelif after a torrent of criticism and false claims about her sex during the Summer Games, the Paris prosecutor’s office said Wednesday. The athlete’s lawyer Nabil Boudi filed a legal complaint Friday with a special unit in the Paris prosecutor’s office that combats online hate speech. Boudi said the boxer was targeted by a “misogynist, racist and sexist campaign” as she won gold in the women’s welterweight division, becoming a hero in her native Algeria and bringing global attention to women’s boxing. The …

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Russian family who fled Ukraine’s cross-border attack recalls panic, chaos

moscow — Marina and her family were used to hearing the distant boom of explosions from their village in Russia’s Kursk region, just a few kilometers from the Ukrainian border. On the night of August 6, the explosions became so loud their beds began shaking. “Nobody knew anything,” the 39-year-old hairdresser told Agence France-Presse at a humanitarian aid center run by the Orthodox Church in Moscow. Ukrainian soldiers and armored vehicles began pouring into the region in the early hours of that morning, mounting the biggest cross-border attack on Russian soil since World War II. The operation came almost 2½ years …

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Для захисту прикордоння України Сили оборони створюють «зону безпеки» на території РФ – Верещук

Тому силами українських військових планується, серед іншого, проведення гуманітарних операцій з метою підтримки цивільних осіб у межах зазначеної зони …

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Taiwan chipmaker breaking ground in Europe amid China threat

Helsinki, Finland  — Next week, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, TSMC, the world’s top advanced computer chipmaker, is expected to break ground on its first European factory in Dresden, Germany, as it seeks to diversify production from Taiwan and threats from China.  TSMC is the biggest supplier of semiconductor chips used in everything from computers to cars and medical equipment. The company will run the nearly $11 billion plant, holding a 70% stake. The joint venture that includes minority investors Robert Bosch, Infineon Technologies and NXP Semiconductors, will be called European Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, or ESMC.  Dresden’s mayor’s office confirmed to VOA that …

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