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Attorneys General in 45 US States Demand TikTok Hand Over Information

Attorneys General in 45 US States Demand TikTok Hand Over Information

A group of attorneys general from 45 U.S. states and Washington, D.C., demanded Monday that social media app TikTok produce...

In Ukraine’s New York, Some Want USSR Back

In Ukraine’s New York, Some Want USSR Back

New York is a city that never sleeps. But this New York, once known as Novgorodske, is in Ukraine’s Donetsk...

Italy Ministers Fume Over Proposed Smoking Ban

Italy Ministers Fume Over Proposed Smoking Ban

The Italian health minister’s proposals to extend a smoking ban include the outdoor areas of bars and parks, according to...

European Police, FBI Bust International Cybercrime Gang

European Police, FBI Bust International Cybercrime Gang

German police said Monday they have disrupted a ransomware cybercrime gang tied to Russia that has been blackmailing large companies...

Iran Open to Prisoner Swap With Belgium

Iran Open to Prisoner Swap With Belgium

Iran said on Monday that it was open to a prisoner swap with Belgium after the latter’s Constitutional Court upheld...

A Month After Quake, Survivors Need Shelter, Sanitation

A Month After Quake, Survivors Need Shelter, Sanitation

One month after a powerful quake devastated parts of Turkey and Syria, hundreds of thousands of people still need adequate...

Ukraine Says It ‘Has Fulfilled’ EU Accession Reforms

Ukraine Says It ‘Has Fulfilled’ EU Accession Reforms

Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmygal said Monday that Kyiv had fulfilled all the recommendations of the European Union as his...

Twitter Suffers Glitches Over Inaccessible Links

Twitter Suffers Glitches Over Inaccessible Links

Twitter users reported a string of problems with the social media site on Monday, including broken links and images not...

Turkey’s IYI Party Wants Ankara, Istanbul Mayors To Be Vice Presidents

Turkey’s IYI Party Wants Ankara, Istanbul Mayors To Be Vice Presidents

Turkey’s right wing IYI Party has proposed that the mayors of Ankara and Istanbul serve as vice presidents if the...

Estonian PM’s Party Handily Beats Far Right in National Election

Estonian PM’s Party Handily Beats Far Right in National Election

Prime Minister Kaja Kallas’s center-right Reform Party won Estonia’s general election by a wide margin on Sunday, according to near-complete...

Five Dead in New Azerbaijan-Armenia Clash Over Karabakh

Five Dead in New Azerbaijan-Armenia Clash Over Karabakh

Azerbaijani troops and ethnic Armenians exchanged gunfire on Sunday in Azerbaijan’s contested region of Nagorno-Karabakh, killing at least five people,...

Party of Estonian PM, Strong Ukraine Backer, Gains Big Win

Party of Estonian PM, Strong Ukraine Backer, Gains Big Win

Voters in Estonia elected a new parliament Sunday with initial results suggesting the center-right Reform Party of Prime Minister Kaja...

French Strikes Over Pension Reform Plans Expected to Disrupt Public Transport

French Strikes Over Pension Reform Plans Expected to Disrupt Public Transport

Industrial action in France over the government’s planned pensions overhaul will cause heavy disruption to public transport again on Tuesday,...

Stop Human Traffickers, Pope Says After Italy’s Migrant Shipwreck

Stop Human Traffickers, Pope Says After Italy’s Migrant Shipwreck

Pope Francis called on authorities Sunday to stop human traffickers operating in the Mediterranean, as he expressed his sorrow over...

Amid Russian Advances, Residents in Ukraine’s Bakhmut Describe Dire Conditions

Amid Russian Advances, Residents in Ukraine’s Bakhmut Describe Dire Conditions

As Russian and Ukrainian forces intensify their fight for the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, residents there are finding it...

Satellites Could Beam Poorest Nations out of Digital Desert 

Satellites Could Beam Poorest Nations out of Digital Desert 

Only a third of people in the world’s poorest countries can connect to the internet, the U.N. telecoms agency said...

AFP: Police, Protesters Clash at Rail Disaster Rally in Athens

AFP: Police, Protesters Clash at Rail Disaster Rally in Athens

Violent clashes broke out between police and protesters outside the Greek parliament in Athens on Sunday as thousands attended a...

Russia-Ukraine Fighting Devolves Into Hand-to-Hand Combat  

Russia-Ukraine Fighting Devolves Into Hand-to-Hand Combat  

Much of Russia’s yearlong invasion in Ukraine has devolved into infantry fighting in the eastern regions of the country, in...

Deadly Shipwreck: How It Happened, Unanswered Questions 

Deadly Shipwreck: How It Happened, Unanswered Questions 

“Italy here we come!” cheered the young men, in Urdu and Pashto, as they filmed themselves standing on a boat...

UK Sunak: If You Come to UK Illegally, You Will Not Be Able to Stay 

UK Sunak: If You Come to UK Illegally, You Will Not Be Able to Stay 

Anyone arriving illegally in Britain will be prevented from staying, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said in an interview published on...

Estonia Is Voting Sunday

Estonia Is Voting Sunday

Voters in Estonia are going to the polls Sunday to cast their votes in a general election. The government of...

War, Anger Cloud Ukrainian Athletes’ Path to Paris Olympics

War, Anger Cloud Ukrainian Athletes’ Path to Paris Olympics

Ukrainian diver Stanislav Oliferchyk proudly bears the name of his late grandfather, who died in brutalized Mariupol. Russia’s troops turned...