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Spain competition watchdog opens Google probe

Spain's competition watchdog has launched an investigation into Google for alleged anti-competitive practices affecting news agencies and press publications.

The probe seeks to determine if Google and its parent company Alphabet abused their "dominant position" in the Spanish market, competition watchdog CNMC said in a statement late on March 28.

‘I Was Powerless’: Serbian Women Detail Devastating Impact of Revenge Porn

Confiding in her sister and a friend, the three of them composed an email to the porn site asking for the video to be taken down. Pornhub, which has over 130 million visits per day, obliged. But days later the video was back under a different heading.

Croat Detained for Posting Videos of Him Racially Abusing Foreigners

The main square in Zagreb. Photo: EPA-EFE/ANTONIO BAT

The 35-year-old man from Ivanic Grad, 30km from Zagreb, is in custody, police said on Monday.

Police said the video could qualify as a criminal offence of public incitement to violence and hatred. The law stipulates a prison sentence of up to three years for this crime.

US sues Google over dominance of online ad market

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The U.S. Justice Department sued Google on Jan. 24 for its dominance of the online advertising market, launching a fresh legal battle against the California-based tech giant.

The federal antitrust suit accused Google of unlawfully maintaining a monopoly that had "corrupted legitimate competition in the ad tech industry."

Vucic: We need peace, responsible approach

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Tuesday that "we need peace and a responsible approach" and that a "difficult period is ahead of us."

In a post on his Twitter account, Vucic said that "more effort, more work, more energy and, above all, more unity, will be needed."

"The people need not worry, because we have not signed or intialled anything," he added.

AMBER Alert launched in Slovenia to help find missing children

Roughly 500 people are reported missing in Slovenia each year, about 30% of them are minors. Finding them will now be made easier with the help an alert system launched by the US tech giant Meta in cooperation with the Slovenian police. Slovenia is only the 30th country in the world to use the AMBER Alert tool.

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