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Seattle Schools Sue Tech Giants Over Social Media Harm

Seattle Schools Sue Tech Giants Over Social Media Harm

The public school district in Seattle has filed a novel lawsuit against the tech giants behind TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube...

Ukrainians Honor Dead Fighter at Outdoor Funeral in Capital

Ukrainians Honor Dead Fighter at Outdoor Funeral in Capital

Ukrainian soldiers, family and mourners gathered in frigid weather in Kyiv Sunday to pay tribute to a soldier killed fighting...

Amid Unrest, Iran’s Hardliners Turn Their Anger to France

Amid Unrest, Iran’s Hardliners Turn Their Anger to France

Iranian hardliners Sunday burned French flags outside the French embassy in Tehran, protesting cartoons published by the French satirical magazine...

Marches in Europe Support Iran Protests, Assail Government

Marches in Europe Support Iran Protests, Assail Government

Hundreds of people marched Sunday in France to honor an Iranian Kurdish man who took his own life in a...

CES 2023: Smelling, Touching Take Center Stage in Metaverse 

CES 2023: Smelling, Touching Take Center Stage in Metaverse 

Is the metaverse closer than we think? It depends on whom you ask at CES, where companies are showing off...

Climate Activists to Defend Village From Demolition by Coal Mine 

Climate Activists to Defend Village From Demolition by Coal Mine 

Climate activists pledged Sunday to defend a tiny village in western Germany from being bulldozed for the expansion of a...

Police in Armenia Detains Protesters Near Russian Military Base

Police in Armenia Detains Protesters Near Russian Military Base

Police in Armenia Sunday detained 65 protesters near a Russian military base demanding Moscow intervene to dismantle what they say...

NATO Declines Serbia’s Request to Deploy Its Troops in Kosovo

NATO Declines Serbia’s Request to Deploy Its Troops in Kosovo

NATO’s mission in Kosovo, KFOR, has declined a Serbian government request to send up to 1,000 police and army personnel...

UK: Russia Facing Dilemma on Where to Focus in Ukraine

UK: Russia Facing Dilemma on Where to Focus in Ukraine

Briain’s defense ministry said Sunday in an intelligence update about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that Russia seems undecided about where...

Public Now Can See Benedict’s Tomb at St. Peter’s Basilica

Public Now Can See Benedict’s Tomb at St. Peter’s Basilica

The public can now visit the tomb of Pope Benedict XVI in the grottoes under St. Peter’s Basilica. The pontiff...

German Police Arrest 2 to Head Off Suspected Chemical Attack

German Police Arrest 2 to Head Off Suspected Chemical Attack

German police say they have arrested an Iranian man and one other person on suspicion that the two were about...

Snow is a No-Show as Europe Feels the Winter Heat

Snow is a No-Show as Europe Feels the Winter Heat

Mild weather has left many regions of Europe that would normally be blanketed in snow at this time of year...

Christmas in a Bomb Shelter for Orthodox Ukrainians

Christmas in a Bomb Shelter for Orthodox Ukrainians

As artillery boomed outside and fighter jets flew overhead, Orthodox Christians in a battered eastern Ukrainian town held a Christmas...

Charlie Hebdo Attack Victims Honored as Iran Rages Over New Cartoons

Charlie Hebdo Attack Victims Honored as Iran Rages Over New Cartoons

French politicians paid tribute Saturday to Charlie Hebdo magazine staff and other victims of the January 2015 Islamist attacks, days...

Ukrainian Startups Bring Tech Innovation to CES 2023

Ukrainian Startups Bring Tech Innovation to CES 2023

The past year has been difficult for startups everywhere, but running a company in Ukraine during the Russian invasion comes...

Bakhmut in Russia’s Crosshairs on Orthodox Christmas Day

Bakhmut in Russia’s Crosshairs on Orthodox Christmas Day

Shelling rocked the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut on Saturday, despite Russian President Vladimir Putin’s declaration of a 36-hour cease-fire...

UN Calls On Belarus to Drop Charges Against Nobel Peace Laureate

UN Calls On Belarus to Drop Charges Against Nobel Peace Laureate

The U.N. human rights office has called on the government of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko to drop criminal charges against...

US Delegation Heads to Balkans Following Rising Tensions

US Delegation Heads to Balkans Following Rising Tensions

A senior State Department official is leading a U.S. delegation to three Western Balkan nations in the coming days following...

Taliban Denounce Prince Harry for Admitting to Afghan ‘War Crimes’

Taliban Denounce Prince Harry for Admitting to Afghan ‘War Crimes’

The Islamist Taliban joined British critics Friday to denounce Prince Harry for admitting to being responsible for the killing of...

UN Human Rights Chief Warns of ‘Backsliding’ on Women’s Rights

UN Human Rights Chief Warns of ‘Backsliding’ on Women’s Rights

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Tuerk has warned about what he sees as the “systematic countering of...

Families in Lviv Mourn Their Dead as War Drags On  

Families in Lviv Mourn Their Dead as War Drags On  

In early December, Ukrainian officials said they estimated 10,000 to 13,000 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed since Russia invaded Ukraine...

CES Show Products Making Life More Accessible

CES Show Products Making Life More Accessible

Major tech companies are appealing to consumers’ evolving lifestyles, tastes and personal values with connected devices that touch on nearly...