Conservative People’s Party wins most seats in Sunday’s vote but may fail to force removal of Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez. With 99 percent of votes counted by 11:45pm on Sunday, the conservative opposition People’s Party had 136 seats while Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s ruling Socialist Workers’ Party had 122 seats. ‘Divided country’ Feijoo, who took over as head of …
A voter stands in a booth at a polling station for Spain’s general election in Madrid on Sunday. Even though Sánchez’s Socialists finished in second place, they and their allied parties celebrated the outcome like a victory because their combined forces gained slightly more seats than the Popular Party and the far right. “We won’t make Pedro Sánchez PM in …
Google employees had signed a petition calling for the removal of one of the members. Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Thursday it was dissolving a council it had formed a week earlier to consider ethical issues around artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. The council, launched on 26 March, was meant to provide recommendations for Google and other companies and …