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To the Beach! Spain Opens Borders to Tourists, Cruise Ships

To the Beach! Spain Opens Borders to Tourists, Cruise Ships

Spain jumpstarted its summer tourism season on Monday by welcoming vaccinated visitors from most countries as well as European visitors...

Greece Deploys Drones to Stop Partygoers from Breaching COVID Safety Protocols 

Greece Deploys Drones to Stop Partygoers from Breaching COVID Safety Protocols 

Authorities on Greece’s most popular tourist island, Mykonos, will deploy more than a dozen drones to spot those who defy...

Possible First Use of AI-Armed Drones Triggers Alarm Bells

Possible First Use of AI-Armed Drones Triggers Alarm Bells

Western military experts are assessing whether an autonomous drone operated by artificial intelligence, or AI, killed people — in Libya...

China Blocks Several Cryptocurrency-related Social Media Accounts Amid Crackdown

China Blocks Several Cryptocurrency-related Social Media Accounts Amid Crackdown

A slew of crypto-related accounts in China’s Twitter-like Weibo platform were blocked over the weekend, as Beijing stepped up a crackdown on...

Serena Williams Knocked Out of French Open; Federer Withdraws

Serena Williams Knocked Out of French Open; Federer Withdraws

Serena Williams turns 40 in September. Roger Federer hits that milestone the month before. No one knows how many more...

Turkey Vows to Defeat ‘Sea Snot’ Outbreak in Marmara Sea

Turkey Vows to Defeat ‘Sea Snot’ Outbreak in Marmara Sea

Turkey’s environment minister pledged on Sunday to defeat a plague of “sea snot” threatening the Sea of Marmara, using a...

Veterans Mark 77 Years Since Allied Liberation of Europe

Veterans Mark 77 Years Since Allied Liberation of Europe

Sunday marked the 77th anniversary of D-Day, when Allied forces landed on the beaches of France’s Normandy region. Historians say...

Pope Voices ‘Pain’ over Canadian Deaths, Doesn’t Apologize 

Pope Voices ‘Pain’ over Canadian Deaths, Doesn’t Apologize 

Pope Francis on Sunday expressed his pain over the discovery in Canada of the remains of 215 Indigenous students of...

Biden Says Will Stand with European Allies Ahead of Putin Summit 

Biden Says Will Stand with European Allies Ahead of Putin Summit 

The United States will stand with its European allies against Russia, President Joe Biden has promised ahead of the first...

Turkey Says It Will Defeat ‘Sea Snot’ Outbreak in Marmara Sea

Turkey Says It Will Defeat ‘Sea Snot’ Outbreak in Marmara Sea

Turkey’s environment minister pledged on Sunday to defeat a plague of “sea snot” threatening the Sea of Marmara with a...

US, EU Condemn Nigeria’s Twitter Ban 

US, EU Condemn Nigeria’s Twitter Ban 

The U.S. and the European Union voiced concern over Nigeria’s decision to indefinitely ban Twitter after the U.S. social media...

Normandy Commemorates D-Day with Small Crowds, but Big Heart

Normandy Commemorates D-Day with Small Crowds, but Big Heart

When the sun rises over Omaha Beach, revealing vast stretches of wet sand extending toward distant cliffs, one starts to...

German State Vote Offers Last Test Before National Election

German State Vote Offers Last Test Before National Election

Voters in Saxony-Anhalt went to the polls Sunday to elect a new state assembly in what is seen as the...

France Probes Lebanese Central Bank Chief’s Wealth

France Probes Lebanese Central Bank Chief’s Wealth

France has opened a probe into the personal wealth of Riad Salameh, central bank chief in crisis-hit Lebanon, sources told...

Swiss Mired in Poisonous Row Over Pesticides

Swiss Mired in Poisonous Row Over Pesticides

The idyllic image of peaceful Swiss Alpine pastures is being shattered by upcoming votes on pesticides which have sharply divided...

Microsoft Says ‘Tank Man’ Image Blocking Due to Human Error

Microsoft Says ‘Tank Man’ Image Blocking Due to Human Error

Microsoft Corp. blamed “accidental human error” for its Bing search engine briefly not showing image results for the search term...

Johnson to Call on G-7 to ‘Vaccinate World by 2022’

Johnson to Call on G-7 to ‘Vaccinate World by 2022’

When the leaders of the world’s industrialized nations meet next week in Cornwall, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will ask...

Global War on Ransomware? Hurdles Hinder US Response

Global War on Ransomware? Hurdles Hinder US Response

Foreign keyboard criminals with scant fear of repercussions have paralyzed U.S. schools and hospitals, leaked highly sensitive police files, triggered...

Hungarians Protest Planned Chinese University Campus 

Hungarians Protest Planned Chinese University Campus 

Thousands of Hungarians, some holding banners declaring “Treason,” protested Saturday against a Chinese university’s plans to open a campus in...

Millions of Nigerian Twitter Users Blocked as Ban Takes Hold 

Millions of Nigerian Twitter Users Blocked as Ban Takes Hold 

Millions of Nigerians struggled Saturday to access Twitter, a day after authorities suspended the service in response to the company’s...

Sunday Marks 77th Anniversary of D-Day

Sunday Marks 77th Anniversary of D-Day

Sunday marks the 77th anniversary of D-Day, when Allied forces landed in Normandy, France, to help liberate Europe from German...

Greece Warns Turkey it Will Push for Sanctions if Tensions Persist

Greece Warns Turkey it Will Push for Sanctions if Tensions Persist

Greece has lashed out at Turkey, warning it will push for sanctions against its neighbor if it continues with what...