North Korean Olympians have not received Samsung smartphones, unlike athletes from other countries, the IOC told AFP on Thursday, hours after Seoul suggested that providing them the phones could violate UN sanctions against the nuclear-armed North. North Korean table tennis silver medallists participated in one such group podium selfie last week alongside South Korean bronze winners -- a rare inter-Korean …
Paris city authorities have been fined for employing too many women in senior positions, a decision mocked as “absurd” by mayor Anne Hidalgo on Tuesday. The fine of 90,000 euros was demanded by France’s public service ministry on the grounds that Paris city hall had broken national rules on gender parity in its 2018 staffing. Hidalgo said she was faulted …
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