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Honda to Cease Diesel Vehicle Sales in Europe by 2021

Honda to Cease Diesel Vehicle Sales in Europe by 2021

Honda said on Monday it would phase out all diesel cars by 2021 in favor of models with electric propulsion...

Tech Companies Back Independent Watchdog to Tackle Online Extremism

Tech Companies Back Independent Watchdog to Tackle Online Extremism

A global working group set up by Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Microsoft to remove extremist content will become an independent...

France’s Cannes to Ban Polluting Cruise Ships

France’s Cannes to Ban Polluting Cruise Ships

Mediterranean resort town Cannes, France’s fourth-biggest cruise ship port, will ban the most polluting cruise ships from next year in...

Trump Expects to Announce Visa Waiver Program for Poland in Weeks

Trump Expects to Announce Visa Waiver Program for Poland in Weeks

U.S. President Donald Trump told Poland’s president he expected to announce Polish entry into the U.S. visa waiver program in...

Can New Space Race Connect World to Internet?

Can New Space Race Connect World to Internet?

It’s a 21st century space race: Amazon, SpaceX and others are competing to get into orbit and provide internet to...

5 EU Countries Agree on Distribution of Migrants

5 EU Countries Agree on Distribution of Migrants

Interior ministers from five European countries reached a preliminary agreement on how to distribute migrants picked up in the central...

Apple Will Produce New Mac Pro Computers in US

Apple Will Produce New Mac Pro Computers in US

Apple said Monday it would keep making its Mac Pro in the United States, after obtaining tariff exemptions for some...

Toyota Banks on Olympic Halo for Humble Bus to Keep Hydrogen Dream Alive

Toyota Banks on Olympic Halo for Humble Bus to Keep Hydrogen Dream Alive

Buses may not be the most glamorous mode of transport but at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic games, they will represent...

Russia Declares Alleged CIA Mole Missing, Launches Search

Russia Declares Alleged CIA Mole Missing, Launches Search

Russia’s Interior Ministry says a former Kremlin official, whom media reports have called a CIA informant, has been officially declared...

Trump Dismisses Impeachment Talk

Trump Dismisses Impeachment Talk

U.S. President Donald Trump has dismissed any talk about impeachment by some Democrats over reports that he tried to pressure...

In Quake-Rattled Albania, Journalists Detained on Fake News Charges After Falsely Warning of Aftershocks

In Quake-Rattled Albania, Journalists Detained on Fake News Charges After Falsely Warning of Aftershocks

Two Albanian journalists were taken into custody early Monday for an alleged hoax in “publishing the fake news, and causing...

EU Divided Again on Question of Migrant Burden-Sharing

EU Divided Again on Question of Migrant Burden-Sharing

Interior ministers from five European Union countries converged on the Mediterranean island of Malta Monday to finalize a deal which...

The Story Behind Biden’s Son, Ukraine and Trump’s Claims

The Story Behind Biden’s Son, Ukraine and Trump’s Claims

In 2014, then-Vice President Joe Biden was at the forefront of American diplomatic efforts to support Ukraine’s fragile democratic government...

Harry and Meghan Start 1st Official Tour as Family in Africa

Harry and Meghan Start 1st Official Tour as Family in Africa

Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, began their first official tour as a family Monday with...

World Leaders Gather For Climate Summit

World Leaders Gather For Climate Summit

World leaders are gathering Monday in New York for a United Nations summit on climate change as scientists warn much...

YouTube ‘Milestone’ Highlights Vietnam Growth and Growing Pains

YouTube ‘Milestone’ Highlights Vietnam Growth and Growing Pains

The Vietnamese comedy channel FAP TV has become the first YouTube account to hit the 10 million subscribers mark in...

Tour Company Thomas Cook Collapses, Global Bookings Canceled

Tour Company Thomas Cook Collapses, Global Bookings Canceled

British tour operator Thomas Cook collapsed after failing to secure rescue funding, and travel bookings for its more than 600,000...

Report: Iran to Release Seized British Tanker

Report: Iran to Release Seized British Tanker

The British oil tanker seized by Iran in July will soon be released, the semi-official Fars news agency reported Sunday.The...

Trump Insists He Did Nothing Wrong in Call with Ukrainian Leader

Trump Insists He Did Nothing Wrong in Call with Ukrainian Leader

U.S. President Donald Trump admitted talking about corruption with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, but stopped short of saying they talked...

Sigmund Jaehn, 1st German in Space as 1970s Cosmonaut, Dies

Sigmund Jaehn, 1st German in Space as 1970s Cosmonaut, Dies

Sigmund Jaehn, who became the first German in space at the height of the Cold War during the 1970s and...

Travel Firm Thomas Cook Teeters on Edge as Talks Continue

Travel Firm Thomas Cook Teeters on Edge as Talks Continue

More than 600,000 vacationers who booked through tour operator Thomas Cook were on edge Sunday, wondering if they will be...

Swiss Hold High-Altitude Wake For Lost Glacier

Swiss Hold High-Altitude Wake For Lost Glacier

Dozens of people dressed in black went on a “funeral march” up a steep Swiss mountainside on Sunday to mark...