May calls off Brexit vote on day of voting and China builds the longest-spanning railway arch bridge.
Google admits bug revealed private info of millions of users
Following the discovery of a second bug that revealed millions of customers’ private information to software developers, Google has decided to shut down Google+ sooner than its planned August date, reported CNN.
Google+ is facing a data leak issue for the second time in two months.
The internet giant will be shutting down its social media network in April 2019, and the API will be shut down within the next 90 days.
In a blog post, Google acknowledged that the latest bug allowed application developers to access profile information not marked public.
The company also revealed that 52.5 million people were affected by the bug in a November software update.
Churches are being clamped down in China
The Chinese government is tightening its clampdown on unregistered Christian churches and the members of a prominent evangelical congregation, reported The Wall Street Journal.
As part of its mission, the government has threatened to shut down the Early Rain Convent Church in the central city of Chengdu.
A church leader, Li Yingqiang, said the police detained Pastor Wang Yi and over 100 members of the church Sunday.
China has been clamping down on unregistered churches since February. The government has targeted all the unregistered churches that have refused to be controlled by state religious authorities. According to several parishes, the clampdown is taking place under the new religious management regulations.
A report in VOA News said Chinese leaders have made increasingly clear that the doctrine of all religions should be secondary to the Communist Party’s tenets. The citizens have to first pray the party, and then their respective gods, believe the leaders.
Theresa May calls off Brexit vote in U-turn
UK Prime Minister Theresa May decided to call off a crucial Brexit vote Tuesday, reported BBC.
The Parliament was scheduled to vote Tuesday on May’s proposal for Britain’s departure from the European Union. May has decided to go back to Brussels and ask for changes to it.
She said if MPs voted on it, the deal “would be rejected by a significant margin”.
May said she was confident of getting “reassurances” from the EU on the Northern Ireland border plan, even as the European Council President Donald Tusk said the remaining 27 EU countries won’t “renegotiate” the deal, added the report.
May’s U-turn came after days of reiterating that the vote would go ahead as planned.
China builds the world longest-spanning railway arch bridge
China has constructed the world’s longest-spanning railway arch bridge across the Nujiang river in Yunnan province of southwestern China, reported Xinhuanet.
Erected Monday morning, the arch bridge is 1,024 metres long and nearly 25 metres wide. It can accommodate the parking of four trains at the same time.
The report quoted a project manager with China Railway Construction Corporation, Yu Changbin, as saying, “As the bridge is situated in the gorge of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau and affected by a high-intensity seismic belt, it was much more demanding in both breadth and bearing capacity than ordinary railway bridges, adding, there is no precedent for building such a huge bridge station.”
According to Yu, constructing the bridge was difficult and risky.
The bridge is an important project of the 220-km-long Dali-Ruili railway, a key section of the China-Myanmar international railway corridor linking Kunming with Yangon in Myanmar, added the report.