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As World Watches Hong Kong, Twitter and Facebook Take Down Accounts Associated with Chinese Government    

As World Watches Hong Kong, Twitter and Facebook Take Down Accounts Associated with Chinese Government    

After Hong Kong saw one of its biggest protests yet over the weekend, a social media war has broken out...

Plans Detailed for First US Mission to Land on Moon Since Apollo

Plans Detailed for First US Mission to Land on Moon Since Apollo

The first American spacecraft expected to land on the moon in nearly 50 years will be a robotic moon lander...

Polish Opposition Unites in Bid to Wrest Senate From Ruling Nationalists

Polish Opposition Unites in Bid to Wrest Senate From Ruling Nationalists

Polish opposition parties have joined forces to try to win a majority in the upper house of parliament, the Senate,...

Presidents of France, Russia Meet to Discuss World Conflicts

Presidents of France, Russia Meet to Discuss World Conflicts

Updated 9 pm, Aug. 19.French President Emmanuel Macron and Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks in southern France where they...

Radiation Monitoring Stations Offline After Mysterious Russian Blast

Radiation Monitoring Stations Offline After Mysterious Russian Blast

Four radiation monitoring stations in Russia have gone offline after a mysterious blast at a Russian missile testing facility on...

With Eyes On Election, Netanyahu Calls For Closer Ties With Ukraine

With Eyes On Election, Netanyahu Calls For Closer Ties With Ukraine

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, locked in a tight election campaign, has kicked off a two-day visit to Ukraine highlighting...

Russian Panel Eyes Alleged Foreign Interference in Protests

Russian Panel Eyes Alleged Foreign Interference in Protests

Russia’s lower house of parliament has set up a commission to examine alleged cases of foreign interference in connection with...

Johnson Heads to Europe, Calls for New Brexit Negotiations

Johnson Heads to Europe, Calls for New Brexit Negotiations

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will head to Berlin and Paris this week in a bid to persuade German and...

8,000 People Evacuated as Wildfire Sweeps Spain’s Canary Islands

8,000 People Evacuated as Wildfire Sweeps Spain’s Canary Islands

Authorities on Spain’s Canary Islands have confirmed the evacuation of more than 8,000 people Sunday and Monday as a massive...

Danish PM: Trump’s Idea of Buying Greenland is ‘Absurd’

Danish PM: Trump’s Idea of Buying Greenland is ‘Absurd’

Greenland is not for sale and U.S. President Donald Trump’s idea of buying the semi-autonomous Danish territory in the Arctic...

Iran Tanker Sails From Gibraltar

Iran Tanker Sails From Gibraltar

An Iranian oil tanker seized in Gibraltar for violating EU sanctions sailed from Gibraltar’s waters Sunday after the British colony’s...

A Digital Setting For A Classical Violin Concert

A Digital Setting For A Classical Violin Concert

Imagine listening to a violin concert in one of New York City’s majestic cathedrals or in the National Arboretum, surrounded...

The Next Unicorn Startup Might Be in a US Government Lab

The Next Unicorn Startup Might Be in a US Government Lab

Every day, cutting-edge research is being performed in government and university labs across the country. Tech transfer is the process...

Apple CEO Warns Trump About China Tariffs, Samsung Competition

Apple CEO Warns Trump About China Tariffs, Samsung Competition

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he has spoken with Apple Inc’s Chief Executive Tim Cook about the...

Leaked UK Memos Warn of Food, Drug Shortages in Brexit Chaos

Leaked UK Memos Warn of Food, Drug Shortages in Brexit Chaos

Secret British government documents have warned of serious disruptions across the country in the event that the U.K. leaves the...

Migrants Jump off Rescue Boat to Try to Reach Italian Island

Migrants Jump off Rescue Boat to Try to Reach Italian Island

Several migrants jumped into the sea from a Spanish rescue boat Sunday in a thwarted bid to reach shore in...

Charity Rejects Spanish Offer to Take in African Migrants that Italy Rejected

Charity Rejects Spanish Offer to Take in African Migrants that Italy Rejected

Last update: 11:30 a.m.A Spanish humanitarian group on Sunday rejected Spain’s offer to take in more than 100 mostly African...

Merkel: We’re prepared for Any Brexit Outcome

Merkel: We’re prepared for Any Brexit Outcome

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday that she would meet British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday evening to...

Seized Iranian Tanker Expected to Leave Gibraltar

Seized Iranian Tanker Expected to Leave Gibraltar

Last update: 1:45 p. m.Iran said its seized oil tanker was expected to leave Gibraltar on Sunday after authorities there...

Italy’s Salvini Tells Ship with 107 Migrants to Go to Spain

Italy’s Salvini Tells Ship with 107 Migrants to Go to Spain

Seeking to end a humanitarian crisis, Spain says a Spanish rescue boat with 107 migrants in the southern Mediterranean can...

Intelligent Threat-Sensing Building on Horizon

Intelligent Threat-Sensing Building on Horizon

As back to back mass shootings in the U.S. prompt more difficult debates on gun laws, researchers at University of...

Times, Citing Official Documents: UK Faces Food, Fuel and Drugs Shortages in No-Deal Brexit

Times, Citing Official Documents: UK Faces Food, Fuel and Drugs Shortages in No-Deal Brexit

Britain will face shortages of fuel, food and medicine if it leaves the European Union without a transition deal, jamming...