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Russia Backs Off Plan to Block Twitter, Extends Slowdown

Russia Backs Off Plan to Block Twitter, Extends Slowdown

Russia Monday backed off a threat to block Twitter inside the country but said it will continue to slow down...

High Court Sides with Google in Copyright Fight with Oracle

High Court Sides with Google in Copyright Fight with Oracle

The Supreme Court sided Monday with Google in an $8 billion copyright dispute with Oracle over the internet company’s creation...

Top EU Officials Head to Turkey for a Reset

Top EU Officials Head to Turkey for a Reset

Top European Union officials head to Turkey Tuesday to meet with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a bid to reset...

Northern Ireland Sees 3rd Night of Unrest Amid Post-Brexit Tensions

Northern Ireland Sees 3rd Night of Unrest Amid Post-Brexit Tensions

Police and politicians in Northern Ireland appealed for calm on Monday after a third night of violence that saw Protestant...

Facing Pressure at Home, Chinese Tech Giants Expand in Singapore

Facing Pressure at Home, Chinese Tech Giants Expand in Singapore

Chinese tech giants are expanding in Singapore as they face a crackdown at home and growing pressure in other key...

Italian Ballroom Dancers Twirl Through Lockdown

Italian Ballroom Dancers Twirl Through Lockdown

Social distancing is not usually part of the ballroom dancing lexicon. But in an industrial zone on the outskirts of Rome, couples of...

Protest Parties Surge in Bulgaria Election, Threatening Prime Minister Borissov

Protest Parties Surge in Bulgaria Election, Threatening Prime Minister Borissov

Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Boyko Borissov may have difficulty holding on to power after a surge of votes in an election...

Kosovo Parliament Elects Vjosa Osmani as National President

Kosovo Parliament Elects Vjosa Osmani as National President

Kosovo’s parliament has appointed a 38-year-old U.S.-educated female law professor and candidate of the ruling Vetevendosje party as the country’s...

Swiss Startup Arms Robot with Virus-Killing UV Light

Swiss Startup Arms Robot with Virus-Killing UV Light

A Swiss startup is looking to boost confidence in the safety of air travel amid the coronavirus pandemic, by using...

Pope Francis Calls for Access to Care and Vaccines for All 

Pope Francis Calls for Access to Care and Vaccines for All 

Pope Francis celebrated a second Easter as the coronavirus pandemic shows no signs of easing in Italy and has again...

Bulgarians Vote for New Parliament

Bulgarians Vote for New Parliament

Bulgarians began voting in a parliamentary election on Sunday that will decide whether long-serving Prime Minister Boyko Borissov wins a...

Kosovo Vote to Elect New President Stymied

Kosovo Vote to Elect New President Stymied

Kosovo’s parliament failed to confirm a new president Saturday, despite backing from the reformist camp that swept this year’s elections,...

Russia to Build Airport in Laos, Train Armed Forces in Sign of Strengthening Military Ties

Russia to Build Airport in Laos, Train Armed Forces in Sign of Strengthening Military Ties

Russian troops have been clearing an area of around 500 hectares of unexploded ordnance, or UXO, in Laos’ Xieng Khouang...

Christians Celebrate Easter in Unusual Circumstances Again This Year

Christians Celebrate Easter in Unusual Circumstances Again This Year

Millions of Christians around the world are celebrating Easter Sunday in unusual circumstances again this year due to the coronavirus...

Unrest Breaks Out in Northern Ireland for Second Straight Night 

Unrest Breaks Out in Northern Ireland for Second Straight Night 

Cars were set alight and masked people pelted a police van with petrol bombs Saturday, the second straight evening of...

Scuffles Erupt in London as Thousands Join ‘Kill the Bill’ Rallies Across Britain

Scuffles Erupt in London as Thousands Join ‘Kill the Bill’ Rallies Across Britain

Thousands of demonstrators joined rallies across Britain on Saturday against a proposed law that would give police extra powers to...

Pope, at Easter Vigil, Hopes for Post-pandemic Rebirth 

Pope, at Easter Vigil, Hopes for Post-pandemic Rebirth 

Pope Francis, leading an Easter vigil service scaled back because of the COVID-19 pandemic, said Saturday that he hoped the...

Vatican Readies for Easter, Again With No Crowds

Vatican Readies for Easter, Again With No Crowds

As Italy struggles with a resurgence of COVID-19 cases, the government announced a new nationwide lockdown across the country for...

EU-China Relations Enter Downward Spiral

EU-China Relations Enter Downward Spiral

Once-warm relations between the European Union and China have taken a sharp turn for the worse, punctuated by a series...

LinkedIn Gives Staff Week Off for Well-being

LinkedIn Gives Staff Week Off for Well-being

Professional social network LinkedIn is giving nearly all of its 15,900 full-time workers next week off as it seeks to...

After Week of Record Warmth, Europe Temperatures to Nosedive

After Week of Record Warmth, Europe Temperatures to Nosedive

After a week or more of temperatures from Britain to eastern Europe running as much as 20 degrees above average,...

Biden Affirms US ‘Unwavering Support’ for Ukraine in Call

Biden Affirms US ‘Unwavering Support’ for Ukraine in Call

President Joe Biden Friday expressed strong U.S. support Friday for Ukraine in a call with the country’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy,...