Even the Muppets are “offensive” nowadays. Anybody who streams “The Muppet Present” on Disney+ will see a declaimer first — warning of “offensive content material.” Disney launched 5 seasons of the long-lasting present for streaming on Friday, permitting viewers to take pleasure in watching Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie ...

Chinese language regulators mentioned on Friday they'd begin imposing heavy duties on Australian wines after discovering preliminary proof of dumping. The transfer comes amid deteriorating commerce relations between Canberra and Beijing. ...

Goldman Sachs (Asia) has been fined $ 350 million by Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Fee (SFC) for its function in a multibillion-dollar scandal that concerned high Malaysian officers, together with its former prime minister. ...

Twitter has flagged a tweet from President Donald Trump for “spreading deceptive or doubtlessly dangerous info.” In it, he declares himself “immune” to the virus and incapable of spreading it to others. ...

The US Division of Justice has sued Yale College for racial discrimination in its admissions course of, arguing the college intentionally put Asian and white candidates at a drawback for many years. ...

Washington has introduced a brand new sanctions package deal in opposition to Iran, hitting the nation’s monetary sector and focusing on 18 main banks. Tehran has branded the transfer a “crime in opposition to humanity” and an try and starve the nation out. ...

Poland’s antitrust watchdog UOKiK mentioned on Wednesday it has imposed a 29 billion-zloty ($ 7.6 billion) nice on Russia’s Gazprom over the Nord Stream 2 gasoline pipeline, designed to spice up gasoline provides to the EU. ...

Beijing is imposing sanctions on US arms agency Lockheed Martin for its involvement in a missile take care of Taiwan, which China considers a part of its territory. The transfer may additional worsen relations between the US and China. ...

US President Donald Trump has imposed a 25 % import obligation on French items in an effort to scuttle the nation’s digital companies tax – making it clear that Paris has a number of months to rethink reducing into Huge Tech’s earnings. ...

Fb is labeling content material posted by state-funded media retailers and plans to bar them from operating advertisements in a conveniently loophole-packed effort to stop “overseas affect” within the 2020 US presidential election. ...