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European Union regulators on Tuesday accused Microsoft of violating antitrust rules by bundling its Teams video conferencing and collaboration software with a suite of other productivity tools, giving it an unfair advantage over rivals.Regulators said Microsoft's packaging of Teams with other established software tools in Office 365 and Microsoft 365, which include programs such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook, amounts to an unlawful abuse of market dominance that Rival companies like Zoom and Slack couldn't match. . Regulators said companies essentially had no choice but to adopt Teams if they wanted other software made by Microsoft.The charges are just the latest in a series of announcements by the European Union in recent months in its bid to crack down on the world'...

Israel's Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the military must begin conscripting ultra-Orthodox Jewish men, a decision that threatens to split Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition government amid the war in Gaza.In a unanimous decision, nine justices found that there was no legal basis for the long-standing military exemption granted to many ultra-Orthodox religious students. Given the absence of a law distinguishing between seminarians and other men of military age, the court ruled that the country's compulsory service laws must apply equally to the ultra-Orthodox minority.In a country where military service is mandatory for most Jewish men and women, exemption for the ultra-Orthodox has long been a point of contention for secular Israelis. But anger over the group...

Kadınların stilini tamamlayan en önemli aksesuarlardan biri olan kadın kolyeleri, her biri özenle seçilmiş tasarımlarıyla dikkat çekiyor. Vovoyo'nun eşsiz koleksiyonunda, her zevke uygun bir kolye bulmak mümkün. Zarif detaylar, kaliteli malzemeler ve özgün tasarımlarla her kadının beğenisini kazanıyoruz. Çocuk Kolyeler: Minik Kalpler İçin Çocuklar için tasarlanan çocuk kolyeleri, sevimli figürler ve canlı renklerle dolu. Vovoyo'nun çocuk koleksiyonunda, güvenilir malzemelerden üretilen ve çocukların güvenliği göz önünde bulundurularak tasarlanmış kolyeler yer alıyor. Miniklerin mutluluğunu ve güvenliğini ön planda tutuyoruz. Çocuk Bileklik: Eğlenceli ve Güvenilir Çocukların enerjik yaşamlarına uygun olarak tasarlanan çocuk bileklikleri, hem şık hem de dayanıklı. Vovoyo'nun çocu...

Unlike most other supplements, fish oil has been rigorously studied, said Dr. JoAnn Manson, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. But the results of these studies are conflicting, leaving researchers and doctors still debating whether fish oil is beneficial for heart health. They also revealed that taking fish oil is linked to a slightly increased risk of developing atrial fibrillation, a type of irregular heartbeat.That's where the evidence for both the benefits and risks of fish oil lies today.Lots of studies, but unclear benefitsAfter reading cables from Greenland, researchers began looking at people in other parts of the world and found, in study after study, that those who consumed fish at least once a week were less likely to die of coronary heart disease than thos...

Ms. Berkovich, the director, comes from a family of advocates: Her mother is a human rights activist, as is her grandmother, and her father is a poet. On the first day of the full-scale invasion of Russia, Ms. Berkovich was arrested and jailed for 11 days after holding a poster reading “No to war” and allegedly disobeying police officers who asked her accompany them to the station. He also wrote anti-war poems.Playwright Petriychuk rose to fame in the Moscow theater world in 2018, when she gave her first reading at the Lyubimovka theater festival and began gaining recognition and awards. Both women have repeatedly asked that their detention be transformed into house arrest. Ms. Petriychuk has scoliosis, a curvature of the spine, and Ms. Berkovich is the mother of two adopted teenage da...

The White Clam Pizza at Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana in New Haven, Connecticut, is a revelation. The crust, kissed by the intense heat of the charcoal oven, achieves a perfect balance between crunchiness and chewiness. Topped with freshly shucked clams, garlic, oregano and a sprinkling of grated cheese, it's a testament to the magic that simple, high-quality ingredients can conjure.Do you look like me? It is not. The entire paragraph, except the name of the pizzeria and the city, was generated by GPT-4 in response to a simple message requesting a Pete Wells-style restaurant critique.I have a few quibbles. I would never call any food a revelation, nor would I describe warmth as a kiss. I don't believe in magic and rarely call something perfect without using "almost" or some ...

Iranian officials have insisted for decades that the law requiring women to cover their hair and dress modestly was sacrosanct and not even worth discussing. They dismissed the struggle of women defying the law as a symptom of Western interference.Now, as Iran holds presidential elections this week, the issue of compulsory hijab, as the head covering is known, has become a hot topic in the election campaign. And all six men running, five of them conservatives, have sought to distance themselves from law enforcement methods, which include violence, arrests and fines.“Elections aside, politics aside, under no circumstances should we treat Iranian women with such cruelty,” Mustafa Pourmohammadi, a conservative and religious presidential candidate with senior intelligence roles, said at a ro...

Amy Conroy sat alone in a veterinary office, her hands clutching a bottle of water and her eyes blinking back tears. Her 16-year-old cat, Leisel, was having trouble breathing. She was now waiting for an update.The door opened and Laurie Maxwell entered.Ms. Maxwell works for MedVet, a 24-hour emergency veterinary hospital in Chicago. But when she sat across from Mrs. Conroy one Monday evening in May, she explained that she wasn't there for the cat. She was there for Mrs. Conroy.Ms. Maxwell is a veterinary social worker, a job in a little-known corner of the therapy world that focuses on relieving the stress, worry and pain that can arise when a pet needs medical care.Pets no longer exist on the periphery of the human family: As one example, a 2022 survey found that nearly half of Am...

The death toll rose to 20 on Monday from two apparently coordinated attacks by gunmen in the southern Russian republic of Dagestan, Russian investigators said.Armed with rifles and Molotov cocktails, attackers attacked synagogues and Orthodox churches Sunday night in two large cities in Dagestan, a predominantly Muslim region in the North Caucasus mountains.The victims included at least 15 law enforcement officers and some civilians, regional officials said. Local health authorities said another 26 people were injured.For hours the armed men remained at large, exchanging fire with members of the police force, according to statements from the region's Interior Ministry. Five attackers were ultimately killed, local officials said.The attack was the latest in a series of acts of extremi...

Apple is imposing unfair restrictions on application developers for its App Store in violation of a new European Union law intended to encourage competition in the technology sector, regulators in Brussels said Monday.The allegations have further intensified the tussle between Apple, which says its products are designed in the best interests of customers, and EU regulators, who say the company is unfairly using its size and considerable resources to stifle competition.Apple is the first company to be accused of violating the Digital Markets Act, a law passed in 2022 that gives European regulators broad authority to force the largest "online gatekeepers" to change their business practices.After launching an investigation in March, EU regulators said Apple was imposing illegal restrictions o...