Microsoft Attempts Takedown of Global Criminal Botnet

Microsoft Attempts Takedown of Global Criminal Botnet

Microsoft announced legal action Monday seeking to disrupt a major cybercrime digital network that uses more than 1 million zombie computers to...

Belarus Allows Police to Use Firearms Against Protesters

Belarus Allows Police to Use Firearms Against Protesters

Belarus’ government says police will now be permitted to use firearms against protesters “if need be” as demonstrations demanding the...

‘I Don’t Blame Anyone’: Vietnam Truck Tragedy Families Speak Out One Year On

‘I Don’t Blame Anyone’: Vietnam Truck Tragedy Families Speak Out One Year On

NGHE AN, Vietnam – Le Minh Tuan has curled up in the bed of his deceased son every night since the...

Facebook to Ban Content that Denies, Distorts Holocaust

Facebook to Ban Content that Denies, Distorts Holocaust

Facebook announced Monday that it is updating its hate speech policy and will ban all posts that deny or distort...

France Says Further Restrictions Possible If Coronavirus Surge Continues

France Says Further Restrictions Possible If Coronavirus Surge Continues

French Prime Minister Jean Castex warned Monday that France could impose further restrictions — including a lockdown — as the...

Austria’s Tyrol COVID-19 Commission Faults Resort Town for Ignoring Warnings

Austria’s Tyrol COVID-19 Commission Faults Resort Town for Ignoring Warnings

An independent commission reported Monday that authorities in the Austrian Alpine region of Tyrol acted too slowly to shut down...

Kardashians Join California’s Armenian Diaspora in Mobilizing Amid Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict

Kardashians Join California’s Armenian Diaspora in Mobilizing Amid Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict

The ongoing conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh has triggered an outpouring of support from Los Angeles’s Armenian community, one of the largest...

Lithuania’s Center-Right Heads Toward An Election Win

Lithuania’s Center-Right Heads Toward An Election Win

Lithuania’s opposition conservative Homeland Union party claimed victory Monday in the first round of the country’s general election, winning 23...

Poland Evacuates 750 people as WWII Tallboy Bomb is Defused

Poland Evacuates 750 people as WWII Tallboy Bomb is Defused

Hundreds of people in northwest Poland have been evacuated for a few days to allow Navy sappers to neutralize a...

Dozens Arrested on 10th Straight Sunday of Belarus Protests

Dozens Arrested on 10th Straight Sunday of Belarus Protests

Dozens of protesters in Belarus were arrested Sunday during the 10th straight weekend of demonstrations against longtime authoritarian President Alexander...

Nadal Wins French Open, Captures 20th Grand Slam Title

Nadal Wins French Open, Captures 20th Grand Slam Title

Spanish tennis star Rafael Nadal has won his record-extending 13th French Open title, defeating Novak Djokovic of Serbia 6-0,6-2,7-5 on...

UK at ‘Tipping Point’: England Braces for More Restrictions 

UK at ‘Tipping Point’: England Braces for More Restrictions 

Millions of people in northern England are anxiously waiting to hear how much further virus restrictions will be tightened as...

Dozens Stage Attack on Police Station in Paris Suburb 

Dozens Stage Attack on Police Station in Paris Suburb 

About 40 unidentified people armed with metal bars and using fireworks as projectiles tried to storm a police station in...

Turkish Cypriots Choose Leader with Peace Deal at Stake 

Turkish Cypriots Choose Leader with Peace Deal at Stake 

Turkish Cypriots began voting Sunday for a leader tasked with overcoming their deep political chasms with Greek Cypriots in order...

Azerbaijan Reports Shelling by Armenia; Nagorno-Karabakh Denies It

Azerbaijan Reports Shelling by Armenia; Nagorno-Karabakh Denies It

Azerbaijan said Sunday that Armenian forces had shelled the city of Ganja overnight.The Azerbaijani Foreign Affairs Ministry said on Twitter...

Pandemic Worsens Challenges Faced by Girls Globally

Pandemic Worsens Challenges Faced by Girls Globally

The world marks the International Day of the Girl Child on Sunday, during a year in which a global pandemic...

Bring Your Own Pen: Lithuania Votes Amid Pandemic

Bring Your Own Pen: Lithuania Votes Amid Pandemic

Lithuanians will be encouraged to bring their own pens to minimize infection risk at Sunday’s parliamentary election, which is seen...

Just 19, Ranked 54th, Swiatek Wins French Open for 1st Slam

Just 19, Ranked 54th, Swiatek Wins French Open for 1st Slam

Minutes after suddenly becoming a Grand Slam champion at age 19, while ranked just 54th in the world, Iga Swiatek...

Pull Investments From Companies Not Committed to Environment, Pope Says

Pull Investments From Companies Not Committed to Environment, Pope Says

Pope Francis on Saturday urged people to pull investments from companies that are not committed to protecting the environment, adding...

Underground Life in the Battle for Nagorno-Karabakh

Underground Life in the Battle for Nagorno-Karabakh

“It will end with our victory,” said a soldier, grinning in red-rimmed sunglasses near a telecom company in Stepanakert, the...

Belarus’ Authoritarian Leader Visits Foes in Prison

Belarus’ Authoritarian Leader Visits Foes in Prison

Belarus’ authoritarian president on Saturday visited a prison to talk to opposition activists who have been jailed for challenging his...

Chinese 5G Not Living Up to Its Hype

Chinese 5G Not Living Up to Its Hype

Mounted on rooftops, utility poles and streetlights throughout China since last year are hundreds of thousands of high-tech wireless towers...