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Casket of Italian Ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi Brought to Cathedral for Funeral

Casket of Italian Ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi Brought to Cathedral for Funeral

Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was honored Wednesday with a state funeral in Milan’s Duomo cathedral and a day of...

EU Regulators Order Google To Break up Digital Ad Business Over Competition Concerns

EU Regulators Order Google To Break up Digital Ad Business Over Competition Concerns

European Union antitrust regulators took aim at Google’s lucrative digital advertising business in an unprecedented decision ordering the tech giant...

Greece: 59 Migrants Dead, Dozens Feared Missing After Fishing Vessel Capsizes

Greece: 59 Migrants Dead, Dozens Feared Missing After Fishing Vessel Capsizes

At least 59 people have died and dozens are feared missing off the coast of southern Greece after a fishing...

UK Police Seek Motive for Nottingham Murders 

UK Police Seek Motive for Nottingham Murders 

 British police were questioning a man on suspicion of murder Wednesday as they sought the motive for a stabbing and...

Biden Calls for Increased Support from NATO Members Ahead of Summit

Biden Calls for Increased Support from NATO Members Ahead of Summit

U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday underscored U.S. commitment to supporting Ukraine against Russian aggression, meeting with NATO Secretary-General Jens...

UN: Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant, Europe’s Largest, Faces ‘Dangerous Situation’

UN: Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant, Europe’s Largest, Faces ‘Dangerous Situation’

The largest nuclear power plant in Europe faces “a relatively dangerous situation” after a dam burst in Ukraine and as...

Big Amazon Cloud Services Recovering After Outage Hits Thousands of Users

Big Amazon Cloud Services Recovering After Outage Hits Thousands of Users

Amazon.com said cloud services offered by its unit Amazon Web Services were recovering after a big disruption on Tuesday affected...

Cash-strapped World Food Program to Halve Aid to Needy Syrians

Cash-strapped World Food Program to Halve Aid to Needy Syrians

The World Food Program said Tuesday it will be forced to end food assistance to 2.5 million Syrians next month...

WHO: Kakhovka Dam Disaster Risks Epidemic of Physical, Mental Health Problems

WHO: Kakhovka Dam Disaster Risks Epidemic of Physical, Mental Health Problems

The World Health Organization warns the catastrophic destruction of the Kakhovka dam in Ukraine June 6 risks unleashing an epidemic...

Kosovo PM Presents Plan to Defuse Tensions in Serb-Majority Area

Kosovo PM Presents Plan to Defuse Tensions in Serb-Majority Area

Kosovo’s prime minister on Tuesday presented a plan to defuse tensions in its Serb-majority north that would include fresh local...

McCartney: ‘Final Beatles Record’ Out This Year Aided by AI

McCartney: ‘Final Beatles Record’ Out This Year Aided by AI

A “final Beatles record”, created with the help of artificial intelligence, will be released later this year, Paul McCartney told...

India Denies Dorsey’s Claims It Threatened to Shut Down Twitter

India Denies Dorsey’s Claims It Threatened to Shut Down Twitter

India threatened to shut Twitter down unless it complied with orders to restrict accounts critical of the government’s handling of...

Latest in Ukraine: Deadly Russian Missile Attack Hits Kryvyi Rih

Latest in Ukraine: Deadly Russian Missile Attack Hits Kryvyi Rih

Latest developments: French President Emmanuel Macron pledges continued deliveries of ammunition, weapons and armed vehicles in the coming weeks, saying...

Outgoing NATO Chief Stoltenberg at White House Tuesday 

Outgoing NATO Chief Stoltenberg at White House Tuesday 

U.S. President Joe Biden is set to meet outgoing NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg at the White House on Tuesday as...

Protests in US Over Russians Taking Ukrainian Children to Russia

Protests in US Over Russians Taking Ukrainian Children to Russia

Across the United States this past weekend, demonstrators protested the transfer of thousands of Ukrainian children to territories occupied by...

Mother Jailed in England for Medicated Abortion Later in Pregnancy

Mother Jailed in England for Medicated Abortion Later in Pregnancy

A 44-year-old mother of three was sentenced Monday to more than two years in an English prison for medically inducing...

US Providing $325 Million More in Aid for Ukraine  

US Providing $325 Million More in Aid for Ukraine  

The United States is providing up to $325 million in additional military aid for Ukraine, a U.S. defense official tells...

Swedish Court Upholds Rejection of Quran Burning Ban

Swedish Court Upholds Rejection of Quran Burning Ban

A Swedish appeals court on Monday said police had no legal grounds to block two gatherings where protesters had planned...

ILO: Child Labor on Rise Following Decades of Progress

ILO: Child Labor on Rise Following Decades of Progress

In observance of the World Day Against Child Labor, the International Labor Organization is calling for stepped up action to...

Northern Kosovo Tensions Threaten Serbia, Kosovo Goals to Join EU

Northern Kosovo Tensions Threaten Serbia, Kosovo Goals to Join EU

Recent clashes in Northern Kosovo between Kosovars and ethnic Serbs are raising concerns about a possible new conflict in the region. From Brussels,...

UN Chief Considering Watchdog Agency for AI   

UN Chief Considering Watchdog Agency for AI   

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Monday that he will appoint a scientific advisory body in the coming days that will...

Startup Firm Leads Kenya into World of High-Tech Manufacturing

Startup Firm Leads Kenya into World of High-Tech Manufacturing

A three-year-old startup company is leading Kenya into the world of high-tech manufacturing, building a sophisticated workforce capable of making...