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Google Plans to Invest $10 Billion in India

Google Plans to Invest $10 Billion in India

Google announced it will invest $10 billion in India in an effort to make the internet more “affordable and useful”...

Poland Presidential Election Likely Heading to Courts

Poland Presidential Election Likely Heading to Courts

Poland’s incumbent President Andrzej Duda, a social conservative aligned with the ruling populist Law and Justice Party (PiS), secured a...

North Macedonia: Ballot Boxes Carried to Quarantined Homes

North Macedonia: Ballot Boxes Carried to Quarantined Homes

Election officials in North Macedonia carried ballot boxes to the homes of voters suffering from COVID-19 or in quarantine Monday,...

British PM Johnson Urges People to Wear Face Masks Indoors

British PM Johnson Urges People to Wear Face Masks Indoors

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Monday it was important to wear face coverings in confined spaces such as shops...

Families of Italy’s Coronavirus Dead Seek Answers, Solace, Justice

Families of Italy’s Coronavirus Dead Seek Answers, Solace, Justice

It started out as way for grief-struck families to mourn their coronavirus dead online: a Facebook group where relatives who...

Global Markets Begin Week in Positive Territory  

Global Markets Begin Week in Positive Territory  

European markets picked up where Asia left off Monday, with its benchmark indexes making big gains thanks to  investors’ continued...

Incumbent Duda Wins Polish Presidential Election

Incumbent Duda Wins Polish Presidential Election

Incumbent Polish President Andrej Duda has won the presidential election. With 99 percent of the ballots counted from Sunday’s runoff...

Fourth Night of Anti-Government Protests in Bulgaria

Fourth Night of Anti-Government Protests in Bulgaria

Thousands of Bulgarians gathered for a fourth day on Sunday in Sofia and other cities to protest against corruption and...

Top White House Adviser Expects Tough Action on TikTok, WeChat

Top White House Adviser Expects Tough Action on TikTok, WeChat

White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said Sunday he expected President Donald Trump to act firmly against the TikTok and...

Touchless: How the World’s Busiest Airport Envisions Post-COVID Travel 

Touchless: How the World’s Busiest Airport Envisions Post-COVID Travel 

With COVID-19 ravaging the aviation industry, airlines and airports worldwide are reining in costs and halting new spending, except in...

Iran: ‘Human Error’ Caused Ukraine Crash

Iran: ‘Human Error’ Caused Ukraine Crash

Iran claims “human error” was responsible for the downing of a Ukrainian passenger plane earlier this year that killed all...

Poland Casts Ballots in Presidential Runoff

Poland Casts Ballots in Presidential Runoff

Voters in Poland are going to the polls Sunday for what most analysts say will be a close runoff election...

Thousands Call on Bulgarian Government to Resign in Anti-graft Protests

Thousands Call on Bulgarian Government to Resign in Anti-graft Protests

Thousands of Bulgarians, frustrated with endemic corruption, protested Saturday for a third day in a row, demanding the resignation of...

Czech Diplomat Sees Spat With China Through History’s Lens

Czech Diplomat Sees Spat With China Through History’s Lens

The Czech people, occupied by Germany during World War II and then forced into the Soviet bloc, are no strangers...

Anti-Government Protesters Arrested in Serbia After Another Coronavirus Lockdown

Anti-Government Protesters Arrested in Serbia After Another Coronavirus Lockdown

Serbian police said Saturday they arrested 71 people after violence erupted in Belgrade late Friday during a fourth night of...

Global Church Council Voices ‘Grief and Dismay’ at Turkey’s Hagia Sophia Decision

Global Church Council Voices ‘Grief and Dismay’ at Turkey’s Hagia Sophia Decision

The World Council of Churches, which represents 350 Christian churches, said Saturday it wrote to Turkey’s president expressing “grief and...

US Convicts Russian Hacker in 2012 Data Breach

US Convicts Russian Hacker in 2012 Data Breach

A jury in San Francisco convicted Russian citizen Yevgeny Nikulin after a series of hacks and cyberthefts eight years ago...

Turkish Parliament Passes Contentious Lawyers Bill

Turkish Parliament Passes Contentious Lawyers Bill

Turkey’s parliament passed a controversial bill changing the system of bar associations, the official Anadolu news agency reported Saturday, as...

Amazon Says Email to Employees Banning TikTok Was a Mistake 

Amazon Says Email to Employees Banning TikTok Was a Mistake 

Roughly five hours after an internal email went out to employees telling them to delete the popular video app TikTok from their...

UN Security Council Deadlocked Over Aid Deliveries to NW Syria

UN Security Council Deadlocked Over Aid Deliveries to NW Syria

The U.N. Security Council was unable to break a deadlock Friday night that would decide the fate of a cross-border...

Russia, China Again Veto Aid to Millions of Syrians

Russia, China Again Veto Aid to Millions of Syrians

With only hours to go before a mandate to deliver aid across the border from Turkey into northwest Syria was...

Memo: Amazon.com Bans TikTok from Employees’ Phones, Cites ‘Security Risks’

Memo: Amazon.com Bans TikTok from Employees’ Phones, Cites ‘Security Risks’

Amazon.com Inc has requested employees remove the TikTok video sharing app from their mobile devices by July 10 over “security risks,” according...