Dirty Money, Criminal Cash: Bank Leaks Reveal Vast Scale of Global Fraud

Dirty Money, Criminal Cash: Bank Leaks Reveal Vast Scale of Global Fraud

Leaked documents allege that some of the world’s biggest banks have allowed $2 trillion  worth of suspicious or fraudulent activity...

EU Summit Postponed After Council President Quarantined

EU Summit Postponed After Council President Quarantined

A spokesman for European Council President Charles Michel says a summit of European Union leaders scheduled for Thursday and Friday...

Italy’s Coalition Government Fends off Salvini

Italy’s Coalition Government Fends off Salvini

Italy’s fragile coalition government breathed a collective sigh of relief Tuesday after voters denied the country’s populist leader Matteo Salvini...

US, Europol: Operation Disrupted Dark Web Opioid Trafficking 

US, Europol: Operation Disrupted Dark Web Opioid Trafficking 

The U.S. Justice Department and European law enforcement agency Europol Tuesday announced that 179 people were arrested following a nine-month...

Britain Enacts Restrictions as Coronavirus at ‘Perilous Turning Point’

Britain Enacts Restrictions as Coronavirus at ‘Perilous Turning Point’

Saying the nation has reached a “perilous turning point,” British Prime Minister Boris Johnson Tuesday imposed new coronavirus-related restrictions on...

 Turkey Embarks on Naval Buildup, Stoking Tensions

 Turkey Embarks on Naval Buildup, Stoking Tensions

Turkey is in the midst of a major naval construction program, seeking to restore regional maritime influence lost since the...

United Nations General Assembly Opens Historic Session Tuesday

United Nations General Assembly Opens Historic Session Tuesday

For the first time in its 75-year history, leaders of the United Nations’ 193 member states will deliver their annual...

UN Marks 75th Anniversary in Atmosphere of New Challenges 

UN Marks 75th Anniversary in Atmosphere of New Challenges 

The United Nations marked the 75th anniversary of its founding on Monday, amid a global pandemic and other serious challenges that the U.N....

British Health Minister Lays Out COVID-19 Response as Cases Surge

British Health Minister Lays Out COVID-19 Response as Cases Surge

Britain’s health minister went before parliament Monday to discuss the government’s response to a surge in positive COVID-19 cases in...

Turkey’s Plan to Regain Ottoman Empire Maritime Influence Irks Greece

Turkey’s Plan to Regain Ottoman Empire Maritime Influence Irks Greece

Turkey is embarking on a major naval construction program to restore the regional maritime influence it lost after the Ottoman empire’s...

Navalny Demands Russia Return Clothes for Poisoning Investigation

Navalny Demands Russia Return Clothes for Poisoning Investigation

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny demanded Monday that Russia return the clothes he was wearing when he fell ill last...

What Fight Over TikTok Portends for Tech

What Fight Over TikTok Portends for Tech

The battle between China and the U.S. over the fate of video sharing app TikTok raises questions for the tech...

US Challenges Injunction Against WeChat App Store Bans

US Challenges Injunction Against WeChat App Store Bans

The U.S. Commerce Department said Monday it is challenging a federal judge’s injunction against its order that Apple and Google...

Western Europe Scrambling to Avoid National Lockdowns

Western Europe Scrambling to Avoid National Lockdowns

Western European states are scrambling to curb a second coronavirus wave of infections by re-imposing pandemic restrictions lifted just weeks...

EU Foreign Ministers Meet Belarus Opposition Leader  

EU Foreign Ministers Meet Belarus Opposition Leader  

Foreign ministers of European Union member countries met with Belarus opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya in Brussels Monday, as they are...

Reports: ‘FinCEN’ Documents Show Banks Moved Suspect Funds

Reports: ‘FinCEN’ Documents Show Banks Moved Suspect Funds

Several global banks moved large sums of allegedly illicit funds over a period of nearly two decades, despite red flags...

Greece: Fire in Migrant Camp on Samos Island ‘Under Control’

Greece: Fire in Migrant Camp on Samos Island ‘Under Control’

A fire broke out Sunday evening in the reception and identification center for asylum-seekers on the Greek island of Samos...

Russian Jets Strike Syrian Rebel-Held Bastion in Heaviest Strikes Since Cease-fire 

Russian Jets Strike Syrian Rebel-Held Bastion in Heaviest Strikes Since Cease-fire 

Syrian opposition sources said Russian jets bombed rebel-held northwestern Syria on Sunday in the most extensive strikes since a Turkish-Russian...

US Judge Blocks Order to Remove WeChat From App Stores 

US Judge Blocks Order to Remove WeChat From App Stores 

A U.S. judge early Sunday blocked the Commerce Department from requiring Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google to remove Chinese-owned...

Greece Scrambles to Rehouse Homeless Migrants, Refugees on Lesbos 

Greece Scrambles to Rehouse Homeless Migrants, Refugees on Lesbos 

For Rahaf al Mohammed, the Moria refugee center was a living hell, but now, after militant arsonists last week razed...

Newspaper: Facebook Tells Irish Court That Probe Threatens Its EU Operations

Newspaper: Facebook Tells Irish Court That Probe Threatens Its EU Operations

Facebook has told Ireland’s High Court it cannot see how its services could operate in the European Union if regulators...

Robert W. Gore, Inventor of Gore-Tex Fabric, Dead at 83 

Robert W. Gore, Inventor of Gore-Tex Fabric, Dead at 83 

Robert W. Gore, whose invention of what created the breathable-yet-waterproof fabric known as Gore-Tex revolutionized outdoor wear and helped spawn...