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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...

Turkish Airstrike Kills at Least 3 in Refugee Camp Inside Iraq

Turkish Airstrike Kills at Least 3 in Refugee Camp Inside Iraq

A Turkish airstrike killed at least three people and injured others on Saturday at a camp for displaced people in...

Denmark Criticized for Asylum Seeker Law

Denmark Criticized for Asylum Seeker Law

The U.N. refugee agency is sharply critical of a new Danish law, which aims to rid itself of asylum seekers...

Man Who Would be German Chancellor Faces Stiff Electoral Test

Man Who Would be German Chancellor Faces Stiff Electoral Test

Armin Laschet, who hopes to succeed Angela Merkel as Germany’s chancellor, has been compared to a traditional child’s toy –...

G-7 Nations Reach Historic Deal to Tax Big Multinationals

G-7 Nations Reach Historic Deal to Tax Big Multinationals

A group of the world’s richest nations reached a landmark deal Saturday to close cross-border tax loopholes used by some...

Pilgrims Return to Spain’s ‘El Camino’ Paths after Pandemic

Pilgrims Return to Spain’s ‘El Camino’ Paths after Pandemic

Committing to the pilgrim’s path has for centuries been a source of renewal for those willing to put their lives...

Nigeria Suspends Twitter Over President’s Deleted Tweet

Nigeria Suspends Twitter Over President’s Deleted Tweet

Nigeria’s government said Friday it was suspending Twitter indefinitely in Africa’s most populous nation, a day after the company deleted...

Putin Chafes at US, Criticizes Response to Capitol Attack

Putin Chafes at US, Criticizes Response to Capitol Attack

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday set a tough tone for his upcoming summit with U.S. President Joe Biden, accusing...

Frustration Greets EU Decision to Keep Travel Restrictions on US, UK 

Frustration Greets EU Decision to Keep Travel Restrictions on US, UK 

Have European Union restrictions on travelers from the U.S., Britain and some other major nations become politicized? The chief executive...

Facebook Suspends Trump for at Least Two Years

Facebook Suspends Trump for at Least Two Years

Facebook said Friday it would suspend Donald Trump’s accounts for at least two years, retaining a ban on the former...

Belarus Aircraft Banned From Flying Over EU

Belarus Aircraft Banned From Flying Over EU

The European Union announced Friday it is banning all flights from Belarus from flying over EU airspace and denying them...

Russian Player Arrested for Match-fixing at 2020 French Open

Russian Player Arrested for Match-fixing at 2020 French Open

A Russian tennis player suspected of match-fixing last year has been arrested during this year’s French Open, her lawyer told...