WASHINGTON, DC - Tech giant, Apple might finally be getting rid of Touch Bar from its next rendition of the MacBook Pro. According to Mashable, Apple is planning to replace the Touch Bar featured on its current crop of MacBooks and, instead, revert back to physical keys (among other things) for the new MacBook line. Touch Bar is one of the features Apple first introduced back in 2016 for the MacBook Pro. 

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Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India]/London (UK)/ Atlanta (Georgia) [USA], January 18 (ANI/PRNewswire): Microland, a leading digital services company today announced that it has earned the Windows Server and SQL Server Migration to Microsoft Azure Advanced Specialization.
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The Seoul High Court first jailed Jay Y. Lee in 2017 after convicting the billionaire for his role in a corruption scandal that toppled former president Park Geun-hye - however the Supreme Court overturned that verdict and ordered a retrial in 2019.The Samsung executive, who initially spent a year in prison, was accused of offering horses and other payments to a friend of the f

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TAIPEI - A Taipei think tank and observers in Taiwan say China is trying to influence residents with "cognitive warfare," hoping to reverse opposition to Beijing's desired takeover of Taiwan so it can be accomplished without having to go to war.Taiwanese attitudes have been drifting away from the mainland, especially among the younger generation, whose members see themselves "born independent" with no ties to Ch

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WASHINGTON - All four engines of the core stage of NASA's deep space exploration rocket built by Boeing were ignited for the first time Saturday, but only briefly.Mounted in a test facility at NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, the Space Launch System's (SLS) 212-foot-tall core stage roared to life at 4:27 p.m. local time (2227 GMT) for just more than a minute - well short of the roughly four minutes en

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LAGOS -- Nigeria's anti-drug agency on Monday announced the seizure of 21.9 kg of cocaine at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja, the country's capital. The illicit substance, concealed in two suitcases, was the largest single seizure by the airport command of the agency, said Jonah Achema, spokesperson for the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, in a statement reaching Xinhua. (Nigeria-Drug-Seiz

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JERUSALEM, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- Israel's Ministry of Finance estimates that Israel's GDP will expand 4.6 percent in 2021, according to an annual report issued by the ministry on Sunday. The 2021 forecast was given according to a main scenario, which assumes control of the pandemic during the first half of the year, and end of health restrictions by the beginning of the second half. The ministry also expect

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Operations to inoculate staff will run for 12 hours a day, seven days a week.The airline will have available to them the Pfizer-BioNTech and Sinopharm jabs.The frontline aviation workforce, including cabin crew, flight deck and other operationally focused roles, will be prioritised, the airline said.Dubai-based airline Emirate

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Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], January 18 (ANI): Maharashtra Minister Nawab Malik's son-in-law Sameer Khan was on Monday been sent to 14-day judicial custody in connection with a drug case.
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Asian markets are on a downward spiral Monday in response to dismal U.S. retail sales figures posted last Friday.Japan's benchmark Nikkei index fell 0.9%. Australia's S&P/ASX index closed down 0.7%. The KOSPI index in South Korea plunged 2.3%, while Taiwan's TSEC lost just over 4 points, but was virtually unchanged percentage-wise (0.03%).Shanghai's Composite index closed 0.8% higher. In late afternoon tr

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New Delhi [India], January 18 (ANI): Rafale fighter plane, the latest multi-role fighter aircraft acquired by the Indian Air Force, will feature in India's Republic Day parade this year and will be part of the flypast at the culmination of the parade. Some new formations will also be seen for the first time.
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Takhar [Afghanistan], January 18 (ANI): As many as eight Taliban terrorists were killed and seven were wounded in Khawja-Ghar district of Takhar province by Afghan National Army on Sunday.
"8 Taliban were killed and 7 others were wounded in Khawja-Ghar district of Takhar province by Afghan National Army last night (Sunday)," Ministry of Defense, Afghanistan tweeted.
Besides the attack in Takhar province, Afghan Army kille

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Rafael Nadal on Monday became the first player to be ranked in the ATP top 10 for 800 consecutive weeks, a run spanning more than 15 years.The world No 2 broke Jimmy Connors' previous record of 789 straight weeks in the top 10 in November.The Spaniard first broke into the top 10 in April 2005, shortly before winning the first of his 13 French Open titles.The 34-year-old is still ov

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Hong Kong [China], January 18 (ANI): China, particularly the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF), is extremely proud of its beefy J-20 stealth fighter. Significantly, the aircraft recently celebrated its tenth birthday as a flying machine within the world's third-largest air force, though it remains one of the world's most enigmatic fighters.
Kept under tight secrecy, the Chengdu Aerospace Corporation (CAC) fighter

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SAN JOSE, Antique, Enero 18 (PIA) - - Si House Deputy Speaker kag Antique Lone District Representative Loren Legarda naghambal kang mga proyekto nga ana ginpatigayon sa Antique kasan-o gid lamang sa sangka paghinun-anun sa programa kang Philippine Information Agency.Ang pagta-o kang importansya sa dunang manggad kag palibot, pagduso kang programa sa "arts and culture" kabahin kang programa ni Legardapara 

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New Delhi [India], January 18 (ANI): Slamming the National Democratic Alliance government in Bihar, former Chief Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav on Monday said crime has doubled in the state under Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's rule.
Citing a media report, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo tweeted that in 2019, under Nitish Kumar's rule Bihar reported more than double the number of crimes to what was reported in the last year 

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Singapore, Jan 18 (ANI): Fitch Ratings said on Monday it has downgraded Delhi International Airport Ltd's (DIAL's) long-term issuer default rating (IDR) and the ratings on its outstanding senior unsecured notes to BB from BB-plus.
The outlook is negative, it added. The downgrade reflects a sharp drop in DIAL's volume in 2020 due to significant travel restrictions to curb the spread of coronavirus.
Fitch said it expects th

Fitch downgrades Delhi Airport to BB with negative outlook

New York [US], January 18 (ANI): After the US aerospace major Boeing recently announced it delivered 157 commercial aircraft for 2020, down from 380 in 2019 and 806 in 2018, Moody's Investors Service has said the recent orders mitigate the sting of lower deliveries in 2020.
So far this year through January 13, Boeing announced orders for four 747-8F freighters and eight 777F freighters for which Moody's estimated an aggre

Boeing orders lessen sting of weak commercial deliveries

The nine medical doctors from the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila (PLM) attend an online meeting with PLM officials. (Contributed photo)CALOOCAN CITY, Jan. 18 (PIA) -- Nine graduates of the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila (PLM) College of Medicine are joining the frontlines of the Sta. Ana Hospital to boost the city-run hospital's manpower amid the COVID-19 pandemic.Dr. Grace Padilla, d

PLM doctors join the frontlines at Sta. Ana Hospital

Islamabad [Pakistan], January 18 (ANI): Slamming the Pakistan Internation Airlines (PIA) for its "irresponsible attitude and maladministration", the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said that the PIA seemed to be "unaware of international civil aviation leasing laws".
Citing sources, Geo News reported that the CAA has expressed its displeasure with PIA's "irresponsible attitude and maladministration as it seems to be unawar

Pakistan CAA slams PIA for its 'irresponsible attitude'

Rawalpindi [Pakistan], January 17 (ANI): Pakistan's Aviation Minister Ghulam Sarwar Khan has said that the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) officials will appear before a court in the United Kingdom on January 22 and a Malaysian court on January 24 after failing to pay the lease of an aircraft on time due to Covid-19 pandemic.
During a media briefing in Rawalpindi on Saturday, the minister claimed that the Malaysian 

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South Africa's Test cricket squad had to fly to Pakistan on a hastily-arranged charter flight after their commercial flights were cancelled -- and Covid-19 restrictions could further complicate the team's plans, it emerged on Sunday.The 21-member team and support staff arrived in Karachi on Saturday for a two-Test series against Pakistan, starting on January 26.A team spokesperson confirm

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Chhapra (Bihar) [India], January 17 (ANI): Leader of Opposition in Bihar Assembly and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav on Sunday reached Chhapra and met the family members of IndiGo airlines manager Rupesh Kumar Singh who was shot dead by unidentified bike-borne men in the Punaichak area of Patna on January 12.
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Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India], January 17 (ANI): A Surat-Kolkata IndiGo airlines flight with 172 passengers on board made an emergency landing at Bhopal airport due to some technical issue, an official said on Sunday.
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Russian opposition figure Aleksei Navalny is due to fly back to Russia on January 17 from Germany despite Russian authorities' stated desire to arrest him and potentially jail him for years.Navalny is expected to fly to Moscow from Berlin, where he has received months of medical treatment for a poisoning that he has blamed on Russian authorities.The outspoken Kremlin critic announced on January 13 that he

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A growing list of countries are limiting travel to and from South Africa since a more transmissible variant of the coronavirus was announced in December.Emirates this week announced a 13-day halt on all South Africa routes for "operational reasons".South Africa has recorded close to 1.3 million cases and over 35 500 fatalities since March - the highest

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Viewpoint by Azu IshiekweneUS President Donald Trump may have lost re-election but he would be escorted out of the White House on January 19 night with a special prize: Africa's worst friend in modern times.Not that it matters one way or the other to Trump. We can only hope that after four years of spite, insults and hostilities, he might yet, in a fleeting moment of sanity, ask himself whether going out 

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