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Google Parent Company To Lay Off 12,000 Workers Globally

Google Parent Company To Lay Off 12,000 Workers Globally

Alphabet Inc., the parent company of tech giant Google, announced Friday it is laying off 12,000 workers across the entire...

Dublin Doing ‘Everything’ to Free French-Irish Citizen Held in Iran

Dublin Doing ‘Everything’ to Free French-Irish Citizen Held in Iran

Ireland’s foreign minister said Thursday the government was doing all it could to secure the release of a French-Irish citizen...

Chad, Venezuela, Kashmir Activists Share Top Rights Prize

Chad, Venezuela, Kashmir Activists Share Top Rights Prize

Campaigners from troubled Kashmir, Chad and Venezuela on Thursday won the Martin Ennals Award, one of the world’s most prestigious...

Orthodox Epiphany Tradition Marked by Conflict Near Ukraine Front Lines

Orthodox Epiphany Tradition Marked by Conflict Near Ukraine Front Lines

Oleksandr used to come every year with his loved ones to the Holy Dormition Lavra monastery in Svyatogirsk in Ukraine’s...

EU to Impose New Sanctions on Iran, Diplomats Say

EU to Impose New Sanctions on Iran, Diplomats Say

The European Union will add 37 individual entries to its sanctions against Iran on Monday, two European diplomats told Reuters,...

FBI Chief Says He’s ‘Deeply Concerned’ by China’s AI Program

FBI Chief Says He’s ‘Deeply Concerned’ by China’s AI Program

FBI Director Christopher Wray said Thursday that he was “deeply concerned” about the Chinese government’s artificial intelligence program, asserting that...

France Faces Strikes Over Pension Overhaul

France Faces Strikes Over Pension Overhaul

Workers striking in protest of France’s proposed pension overhauls disrupted transportation, schools and electricity supplies Thursday. President Emmanuel Macron’s government...

Turkey Places Enes Freedom on Terrorist Wanted List

Turkey Places Enes Freedom on Terrorist Wanted List

Turkey has placed basketball player Enes Freedom on its terrorist wanted list.  Freedom appears on what the Turkish Interior Ministry...

Pentagon Looks to Give Ukraine Momentum in War, Without Tanks

Pentagon Looks to Give Ukraine Momentum in War, Without Tanks

The United States aims to break the dynamic of grinding warfare and near-frozen front lines in Ukraine with newly announced...

Tech Layoffs Mount as Microsoft, Amazon Shed Staff

Tech Layoffs Mount as Microsoft, Amazon Shed Staff

Software giant Microsoft on Wednesday became the latest major company in the tech sector to announce significant job cuts when...

Activist Thunberg to Meet Energy Chief at Davos

Activist Thunberg to Meet Energy Chief at Davos

Environmental activist Greta Thunberg is set to meet International Energy Agency executive director Fatih Birol in Davos on Thursday, organizers...

US Arrests Russian Founder of China-Based Crypto Exchange 

US Arrests Russian Founder of China-Based Crypto Exchange 

United States law enforcement officials said on Wednesday that they’ve arrested the Russian founder of a China-based cryptocurrency exchange, disrupting...

Germany to Export Tanks to Ukraine If US Does the Same, Berlin Says

Germany to Export Tanks to Ukraine If US Does the Same, Berlin Says

Germany will allow German-made tanks to be sent to Ukraine to help its defense against Russia if the United States...

NATO Allies US, Turkey Try to Mend Fences but Rifts Persist

NATO Allies US, Turkey Try to Mend Fences but Rifts Persist

The United States and Turkey on Wednesday looked to brush aside differences that have strained relations for years but were...

‘A Matter of Days’: Concern Grows Over French Irish Citizen Held in Iran

‘A Matter of Days’: Concern Grows Over French Irish Citizen Held in Iran

A French Irish citizen held in Iran since October 2022 and now on a dry hunger strike to protest his...

London Museum Withdraws ‘Irish Giant’ From Display

London Museum Withdraws ‘Irish Giant’ From Display

Campaigners have welcomed a decision to remove the skeleton of an 18th century man with gigantism from public display at...

Pope Francis Prepares for Long-Awaited Visit to Congo and South Sudan

Pope Francis Prepares for Long-Awaited Visit to Congo and South Sudan

Pope Francis is set travel to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sudan at the end of the...

US, Germany Pressured to Send Tanks to Ukraine After Britain Breaks Taboo

US, Germany Pressured to Send Tanks to Ukraine After Britain Breaks Taboo

Ukraine says the West must speed up the delivery of weapons as its troops come under increasing pressure from invading...

South Africa Criticized for Hosting Russian Warships Amid Ukraine War 

South Africa Criticized for Hosting Russian Warships Amid Ukraine War 

South Africa plans to conduct joint military exercises with the Chinese and Russian navies off its east coast next month...

At Davos, UN Chief Warns the World Is in a ‘Sorry State’

At Davos, UN Chief Warns the World Is in a ‘Sorry State’

The world is in a “sorry state” because of myriad “interlinked” challenges including climate change and Russia’s war in Ukraine...

World’s Oldest Known Person, French Nun, Dies at 118

World’s Oldest Known Person, French Nun, Dies at 118

A French nun who was believed to be the world’s oldest person has died a few weeks before her 119th...

F-16 Deal Contingent on Turkey’s Support for NATO Expansion, Syria

F-16 Deal Contingent on Turkey’s Support for NATO Expansion, Syria

Turkey’s F-16 fighter jet request from the United States and the possibility of another operation by Turkish military in northern...