August 2019

Customs Computer Failure Snarls Passengers at U.S. Airports

A nationwide customs service computer failure Friday afternoon left throngs of passengers bottlenecked at airports, waiting to be processed, United States Customs and Border Protection said. The agency said in a statement that it was experiencing “a temporary outage” at various airports and that it was “taking immediate action to address the technology disruption.” It

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Peace Road Map for Afghanistan Will Let Taliban Negotiate Women’s Rights

WASHINGTON — Roya Rahmani is neither royalty nor from a powerful family, so she was initially surprised when she was appointed as the first woman to be Afghanistan’s ambassador to the United States. Now she understands why: to signal Kabul’s commitment to women’s rights as the Trump administration pushes for a peace deal with the

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Some Single, Childfree Women Don’t Get The Same Flexibility And Pay As Parents

Early in my career, I had a male manager who casually told us during an all-hands meeting that one reason we would not be getting raises or paid time off was because we did not have children to support. It took me years to realize how unprofessional, shocking and inappropriate that statement was. At the

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Beautycon, SneakerCon, VidCon: The new-age conventions

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption BeautyCon Los Angeles 2019 Instagram booths, endless glitter, top influencers and limited edition Air Jordans – welcome to the new era of conventions. Over the last decade they’ve become a big way of connecting enormous digital communities in real life. From sampling the latest make-up at Beautycon to buying

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Hong Kong protests: ‘We don’t want to leave but may have no choice’

Image copyright Miro Image caption Taylor Host and Jamie Wilde are moving the HQ of their firm Miro out of Hong Kong Hong Kong seemed an obvious place for co-founders Jamie Wilde and Taylor Host to set up their artificial intelligence start-up. They had lived there for several years and knew the financial hub well.

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