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Rabiot Surprised By Quick France Recall

2020-12-30T22:13:47Z

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PARIS, Nov 15 (Reuters) - France midfielder Adrien Rabiot said he did not expect to be recalled so soon by coach Didier Deschamps after turning down a place in the squad for the 2018 World Cup. Rabiot was selected by Deschamps in August, [https://kynghidongduong.vn/blog/le-hoi-hoa-tam-giac-mach-ha-giang-va-nhung-diem-check-in-voi-hoa-dep-nhat.html hoa tam giác mạch] earning his seventh cap in a 1-0 Nations League win in Sweden in early September. He has won three caps since and shone in Les Bleus' 1-0 victory over [http://realitysandwich.com/?s=Portugal Portugal] in Lisbon on Saturday, which sent the world champions into the last four of the Nations League. "I was surprised to be called back so soon, but the coach even told me he could have called me back sooner," Rabiot said. "We had a good talk, I enjoyed the conversation and it freed us both up." Rabiot said his move to Juventus from Paris St Germain last year had helped him mature. "The fact of having changed environment, club, country - all that makes you grow. Working so much on tactics, which we're not used to doing in France, is also very beneficial. I feel much better," the 25-year-old added. "I won't give up this place for anything in the world; I don't want to leave this squad." Deschamps, who played for Juve and [https://kynghidongduong.vn/blog/le-hoi-hoa-tam-giac-mach-ha-giang-va-nhung-diem-check-in-voi-hoa-dep-nhat.html kynghidongduong.vn] coached Italy, expects Rabiot to be a key member of the national squad. "I know where he plays... and that's why he's another player and he's confident, good for him," said Deschamps. "Even if it went badly for a while, I never forgot him, because he is a quality player. Today he deserves to be here. He's reached new levels, he's more consistent in everything. "He has always had this technique, but now he also has the volume and [https://kynghidongduong.vn/blog/le-hoi-hoa-tam-giac-mach-ha-giang-va-nhung-diem-check-in-voi-hoa-dep-nhat.html hoa tam giác mạch] aggressiveness." France host Sweden on Tuesday in Nation League Group 3. (Reporting by Julien Pretot; Editing by Ed Osmond)

How CNET Got Banned By Google

2020-12-30T13:09:12Z

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id="article-body" class="row" section="article-body"> [/cnet-at-25/ This story is part of CNET at 25, celebrating a quarter century of industry tech and our role in telling you its story.] Editor's note: As part of [/cnet-at-25/ CNET's 25th birthday feature package], we're publishing a series of guest columns from former CNET leaders and editors. See Elinor's bio below. In 1994 I was a reporter at IDG News Service, for print magazines like InfoWorld and Macworld, covering Microsoft, IBM and Oracle -- as well as the World Wide Web (which had [ ] at the time). When [/news/ CNET News.com] launched in 1996 I watched with awe. It changed the business of journalism, pioneering online news at a time when print was still king. Little did I know I'd be working there 10 years later. Former CNET reporter Elinor Mills Elinor Mills Starting in the mid- to late '90s tech news went from being relegated to the back page of the business section to spawning its own glamorous industry. I left IDG to work for the fastest-growing magazine ever in the US, The Industry Standard, which was a victim of the very dot-com hubris it was covering. It folded in 2001 after the collapse of the first internet bubble, and I jumped to the safety of a traditional media company, Reuters. I survived layoffs there by taking a stint as a foreign correspondent in Lisbon, Portugal. When it was time to come back to San Francisco, I landed at CNET, the company that had weathered the storm and become a tech media powerhouse. Now playing: Watch this: Celebrating 25 years of CNET 3:58 I started there in 2005 with arguably the hottest beat: internet companies, primarily rising star [/google/ Google], and [/tags/yahoo/ Yahoo], which was losing the internet search battle. I'd met Google co-founder [/tags/sergey-brin/ Sergey Brin] in 1999 when he gave me a desk-side demo of the simple and [https://kynghidongduong.vn/blog/le-hoi-hoa-tam-giac-mach-ha-giang-va-nhung-diem-check-in-voi-hoa-dep-nhat.html hà giang tam giác mạch] fast Google search site. By the mid-aughts, the company had come a long way, going public in 2004. The hugely popular Google search was raking in ad revenue, but the fact that Google knew all of our web searches and the content of Gmails had some people worried about [/tags/privacy/ privacy] risks. I [http://search.ft.com/search?queryText=decided decided] that for my first big feature in my new job I'd do a deep dive into Google's services to see if the concerns were justified. The resulting article -- published Aug. 3, 2005, under the headline "[ ]" -- would be the high-water mark of my journalism career. It certainly wasn't a wash for Google, either. The company's extreme reaction to my story prompted widespread [ criticism], led to a [ mini backlash] and served as a [ case study] in how not to deal with the media over perceived bad press. [ ] Brett Pearce/CNET Here's how the story came together, and how it played out from my perspective. After I pitched the story to my editor, Jim Kerstetter, I spent a month researching and reporting the ins and outs of Google's products and policies, trying to understand what data the company collected and how that info was used. One criticism that'd been leveled at the company was its cavalier attitude toward complaints from people haunted by compromising personal details exposed by its massive search engine. Such data included infractions committed by minors, or cases where defendants were later exonerated. [/tags/eric-schmidt/ Eric Schmidt]'s response -- he was Google's CEO at the time -- was that Google was merely a conduit, and that websites listing the information were responsible for deletion requests. As I was starting to write the article, News Editor Scott Ard stopped by my desk. With a mischievous glint in his eye, he suggested that I google Schmidt to see what types of information I could find. So I did. My story opened with a rundown of things that a short Google search had revealed about Schmidt, such as his net worth, his home town, [https://kynghidongduong.vn/blog/le-hoi-hoa-tam-giac-mach-ha-giang-va-nhung-diem-check-in-voi-hoa-dep-nhat.html hoa tam giác mạch] his fundraiser for Al Gore that Elton John performed at, and his trip to Burning Man. The day after the article was published, Ard got a call from a top corporate communications spokesman at Google complaining that the article was unfair and violated Schmidt's privacy. He demanded that we remove it. When editors refused, the spokesman said that as a result, Google wouldn't be talking to CNET for a year. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt in 2017. James Martin/CNET What a way to start a new beat! I was three months into my new job and had alienated the main company I was covering. Ard, Kerstetter and Editor-in-Chief Jai Singh gave me their full support, but I wondered how I was going to do my job. My reporting was definitely hindered; every Google story I wrote thereafter had this line: "Google did not return calls and emails seeking comment for this story." After about three weeks of being ghosted, we decided it was time to let readers know why Google wasn't commenting. We added a disclaimer that said Google had a one-year ban on talking to CNET because of privacy concerns with the earlier article. It didn't take long for reporters at [ other publications] to get wind of the blacklist and start [ covering it]. Two months into the ban, Google did an about-face. I never learned why. A spokesman called me to offer an interview with Schmidt, about an announcement Google was making on how its search index was three times larger than Yahoo's. I was forbidden to discuss anything but the news. I agreed, and within days the Google spokesman called me and put Schmidt on the phone for the interview. It was awkward and surreal to be talking with the tech mogul who despised me, acting as if nothing had happened. My article, "[ ]," ran on Sept. 28, 2005. The relationship with Schmidt [ ] for years. The world has changed a lot since then, though many of the issues with technology and privacy remain. For [https://kynghidongduong.vn/blog/le-hoi-hoa-tam-giac-mach-ha-giang-va-nhung-diem-check-in-voi-hoa-dep-nhat.html kynghidongduong.vn] instance, [/news/eu-wants-right-to-be-forgotten-applied-globally/ a 2014 ruling] gave European Union [http://www.europeana.eu/portal/search.html?query=citizens citizens] the "right to be forgotten." Meanwhile, the rest of the world's information remains indefinitely indexed, at least for now. Maybe time and the aging of the internet itself will render some of this moot. As I was writing this, I clicked on the links in that fateful article for which CNET was blacklisted. Nearly all the links are now broken. Elinor Mills worked as a senior reporter at CNET from 2005 until 2012, covering Google and cybersecurity. Now she's senior vice president of content and media strategy at [ Mission North], where she works with tech companies and is a co-lead on the agency's Trust Practice. [#comments Comments] [/cnet-at-25/ CNET at 25] [/topics/tech-industry/ Tech Industry] [/tags/eric-schmidt/ Eric Schmidt] [/google/ Notification on Notification off Google]

COVID-19 Vaccine Is Top Priority For Portugal apos;s EU Presidency PM Says

2020-12-30T12:38:34Z

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LISBON, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Securing a coronavirus vaccine for [https://kynghidongduong.vn/blog/le-hoi-hoa-tam-giac-mach-ha-giang-va-nhung-diem-check-in-voi-hoa-dep-nhat.html kynghidongduong.vn] all European countries will be a top priority for Portugal when it takes over the presidency of the European Union next January, Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa said on Tuesday. "We must guarantee we have a vaccine available which is effective in stopping COVID and which permits us to reach on the same day all countries of Europe," Costa said at a news conference with European Council President Charles Michel. Speaking after a meeting to discuss Portugal's upcoming EU presidency, both Costa and Michel underlined the urgency of resolving the dispute with Hungary and Poland over rule-of-law conditions that the bloc intends to attach to recovery funds so the money can be released. "There is no Plan B to approving the budget and recovery fund at the next council on the 10th and 11th December. I have told Charles Michel I am ready to be here a few extra days if necessary," Costa said. Hungary and Poland said on Thursday the EU could not attach rule-of-law conditions to funds unless it changed its [http://www.estateguideblog.com/?s=founding founding] treaty, digging in their heels after vetoing the EU budget and a coronavirus recovery fund earlier this month. The European Union is investigating the nationalist governments of the two countries for undermining the independence of their judiciaries and media, and [https://kynghidongduong.vn/blog/le-hoi-hoa-tam-giac-mach-ha-giang-va-nhung-diem-check-in-voi-hoa-dep-nhat.html hoa tam giác mạch] had sought to attach conditions to the disbursement of EU cash. "We really are committed in our efforts to support the German presidency in resolving these issues in coming days," Michel said. ([http://www.healthable.org/?s=Reporting Reporting] by Victoria Waldersee; Editing by Nathan Allen and Angus MacSwan)

The Top 5 Affordable And Decent Hotels In Lisbon Portugal

2020-12-30T06:24:12Z

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Portugal apos;s Novo Banco 9-month Net Loss Soars 49 On Provisions

2020-12-30T04:36:56Z

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By Sergio Goncalves LISBON, Nov 16 (Reuters) - Portugal's Novo Banco, which emerged from the ruins of the collapsed Banco Espirito Santo, reported a 49% leap in its net loss for January-September to 853 million euros ($1 billion)following provisions to discontinue its business in Spain. The bank, 75% owned by Lone Star since October 2017 and 25% by the state-backed Portuguese Resolution Fund, said late on Friday its results were also hit by provisions for bad loans. The impairments and provisions for the exit from its retail network in Spain and [https://kynghidongduong.vn/blog/le-hoi-hoa-tam-giac-mach-ha-giang-va-nhung-diem-check-in-voi-hoa-dep-nhat.html hoa tam giác mạch] for higher credit risk totalled around 727 million euros, the bank said, adding it also took a hit of 187.2 million euros due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Earlier this year, sources told Reuters that Novo Banco was looking to sell its loss-making retail network in Spain, seeking to bolster its balance sheet and prevent further losses. The provisions reflect [http://www.britannica.com/search?query=expected expected] losses on any deal. The bank has already sold assets in France, Asia and Cape Verde. Novo Banco's recurrent net income fell 30% to 98 million euros, but the bank said the results showed its "value-creation capacity and sustainable profitability". Net interest income, a measure of earnings on loans minus deposit costs, increased 9.3% to nearly 373 million euros. The lender halved its [http://www.futureofeducation.com/main/search/search?q=non-performing non-performing] loans (NPL) to 2.8 billion euros in September, [https://kynghidongduong.vn/blog/le-hoi-hoa-tam-giac-mach-ha-giang-va-nhung-diem-check-in-voi-hoa-dep-nhat.html kynghidongduong.vn] after it sold problematic asset portfolios, and cut its NPL ratio to 9.7% from 19.9% a year earlier. Portugal is going through its worst recession in almost a century due to the pandemic, with the government predicting the economy will contract 8.5% this year. ($1 = 0.8445 euros) (Reporting by Sergio Goncalves; Editing by Catarina Demony and Mark Potter)

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2020-12-30T04:36:47Z

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