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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 347

Alex Pigman

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, looks on during the US Senate Judiciary Committee hearing "Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis" in Washington, DC, on January 31, 2024. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP)
February 1, 2024, 5:01 pm
In Congress, Zuckerberg apologizes to parents for harm caused by social media
US senators grill tech CEOs over apparent failure to prevent online sexual exploitation of minors and self-harm; TikTok CEO vows funding for ‘trust and safety’
By Alex Pigman
The new Twitter logo rebranded as X, is pictured in Paris on July 24, 2023. Twitter launched its new logo on July 24, 2023, replacing the blue bird with a white X on a black background, as the Elon Musk-owned company moves toward rebranding as X. (Alain Jocard/AFP)
July 25, 2023, 2:36 am
‘Minimalist art deco’: Musk rebrands Twitter, replacing bird logo with X
Billionaire’s connection to letter goes back nearly 24 years when he founded X.com, which was later renamed PayPal despite his objections; his space company is called SpaceX
By Glenn Chapman and Alex Pigman
This photo, taken in New York, Thursday, July 6, 2023, shows Meta's new app Threads. (AP/Richard Drew)
July 7, 2023, 4:12 am
Elon Musk threatens Meta with lawsuit as Twitter rival Threads takes off
More than 30 million people download new app in less than 24 hours, says Zuckerberg, as longtime Twitter users look for alternative to troubled platform
By Alex Pigman and Thomas URBAIN
In this file photo taken on February 09, 2022, Samuel Bankman-Fried, founder and CEO of FTX, testifies during a Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry hearing about 'Examining Digital Assets: Risks, Regulation, and Innovation,' on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC (SAUL LOEB / AFP)
December 13, 2022, 3:52 pm
Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried charged with defrauding crypto investors
Day after arrest in Bahamas, US Securities and Exchange Commission alleges CEO fraudulently raised billions by promoting firm as responsible trading platform, misused funds
By Alex Pigman
The League's Matteo Salvini, left, chats with Brothers of Italy's Giorgia Meloni on the stage of the joint closing rally of Italian right-wing parties, in Rome September 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
September 24, 2022, 10:13 am
EU braces for trouble but no blowup with Italy as far-right expected to take power
With Brothers of Italy and the League slated to be the big winners in Sunday’s election, many fear the latter’s Kremlin-friendly leader may take soft-line on Putin over Ukraine war
By Christian SPILLMANN and Alex Pigman
German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks during a media conference at an EU summit in Brussels, Oct. 22, 2021 (Aris Oikonomou, Pool Photo via AP)
October 23, 2021, 8:59 am
‘You are a monument’: Merkel gets standing ovation at her final EU summit
Council chief: EU summit ‘without Angela is like Rome without Vatican, Paris without Eiffel tower’; Obama sends video tribute; German chancellor warns of bloc’s future challenges
By Alex Pigman
People line up to visit the Eiffel Tower, in Paris, June 25, 2020. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
June 27, 2020, 6:20 am
EU split on reopening Europe’s borders, but ban on US travelers to remain
European Union envoys draw up tentative list of about 18 countries with low virus rates to allow in, but United States, with severe outbreak, will stay excluded
By Alex Pigman
US President Donald Trump pumps his fist to the crowd as he arrives at Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base in Houston, Texas on May 31, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / JIM WATSON)
May 31, 2018, 11:12 pm
EU fumes as Trump kicks off transatlantic trade war
Europe vows unity and promises swift retaliation against US tariffs on steel and aluminium imports, which Germany brands ‘illegal’
By Alex Pigman
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes the keynote speech at F8, theFacebook's developer conference, May 1, 2018, in San Jose, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
May 16, 2018, 9:11 pm
Facebook’s Zuckerberg agrees closed-door talks with European lawmakers
Some paliamentarians angry that hearing over Cambridge Analytica data scandal will not be held in public forum
By Alex Pigman
Chairwoman of the court Marie-France Keutgen (C) sits with members of the court during the opening of the trial of prime suspect in the November 2015 Paris attacks Salah Abdeslam, at the Palais de Justice courthouse in Brussels, on February 5, 2018. (AFP/Pool/Emmanuel Dunand)
February 5, 2018, 7:57 pm
In court, defiant Paris attacks suspect ‘trusts in Allah’
Salah Abdeslam, arrested after gunfight with police in 2016, accuses Brussels court of ‘bias against Muslims,’ refuses to answer questions
By Lachlan CARMICHAEL and Alex Pigman
US President Donald Trump leaves after speaking during the first meeting of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to the White House in Washington, DC, July 19, 2017. (AFP/Saul Loeb)
July 26, 2017, 7:09 pm
Russia, EU warn US after House approves sanctions bill
Trump facing tough call after Moscow, Tehran hint at response over fresh measures; Brussels says ‘ready to protect European interests’
By Max Delany, Michael Mathes and Alex Pigman
European Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager addresses a press conference on an antitrust case against US search engine Google at the European Commission in Brussels, on June 27, 2017. (EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP)
June 27, 2017, 4:43 pm
Google fined record $2.7b by EU for breach of antitrust rules
Risking wrath of US president, European Commission finds that search engine gave illegal advantage to its own shopping service
By Alex Pigman
German Chancellor Angela Merkel (rear C) speaks with Finnish Prime Minister Juha Sipila (2nd R), Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni (rear L) and Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven (front L) and Estonian Prime minister Juri Ratas (R) during a special EU leaders' meeting at the Europa building, the main headquarters of European Council and the Council of the EU, in Brussels, on April 29, 2017. (AFP/Pool/Virginia Mayo)
April 29, 2017, 4:40 pm
EU adopts tough Brexit talks stance
Leaders unanimously adopt strategy as they seek to show unity ahead of two years of grueling negotiations
By Danny Kemp and Alex Pigman
This photo shows the cordoned-off area at the scene of a bomb alert in the City2 shopping mall in the Rue Neuve in the city center of Brussels, on June 21, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / Belga / NICOLAS MAETERLINCK)
June 21, 2016, 10:09 am
Fake bomb triggers anti-terror operation in jittery Brussels
One suspect arrested as Prime Minister Michel convenes security cabinet in terror-struck Belgian capital
By Alex Pigman
Belgian police arrest a suspect believed to be Paris terror suspect Salah Abdeslam during a raid in the Brussels neighborhood of Molenbeek on March 18, 2016 (screen capture: YouTube)
March 21, 2016, 3:37 am
Belgian lawyer vows fight over Paris attacks suspect
Salah Abdeslam, 26, helped mastermind November 13 shootings that killed 130 in French capital
By Alex Pigman
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