European Union Finds Ransomware Is Top Cybercrime
The European Union’s 2019 cybercrime report said the number of online attacks is going down but criminals are targeting more...
Kremlin Labels Opposition-Led Foundation a ‘Foreign Agent’
Russian authorities say they intend to add an opposition-run anti-corruption foundation to a list of so-called “foreign agents” operating in...
African Women in Tech Working to Close Digital Divide
Women from across Africa are meeting at the annual Women in Tech Africa Week, hoping to bring more women into the...
Zuckerberg to Testify in US on Facebook Digital Currency Plan
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg will testify at the US House of Representatives this month on the social network’s plan...
High-Profile Soccer Wives in Twitter Spat Over Story Leaks
The wives of two of English soccer’s most high-profile players got embroiled in a spat on Twitter on Wednesday about...
EU Warns Hostile Countries Are 5G risk, Avoids Naming Names
The European Union warned Wednesday that next-generation telecommunication networks face a range of cyber threats, including from hostile countries. ...
2 People Fatally Shot in City of Halle, Germany
Federal prosecutors in Germany have assumed control of an investigation into the shooting deaths of two people in the city...
China Criticizes Apple for App that Tracks Hong Kong Police
Apple became the latest company targeted for Chinese pressure over protests in Hong Kong when the ruling Communist Party’s main...
Google Reports Highest Mobile Internet Use is in ASEAN Region
People in Southeast Asia spend the most time in the world accessing the internet through mobile devices, according to a...
Invasion of Northeast Syria Carries Gain And Risk For Turkey
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has long threatened to send troops into northeastern Syria to clear the border region of...
Russian Justice Ministry Brands Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation a ‘Foreign Agent’
Russia’s Justice Ministry has branded opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s nonprofit Anti-Corruption Foundation a “foreign agent” under a 2012 law that...
3 Win Nobel in Chemistry for Work on Lithium-Ion Batteries
Three scientists on Wednesday were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their contributions to the development of lithium-ion batteries,...
Rights Groups Highlight Case of Russian Journalist Facing Prison
When 40-year-old Svetlana Prokopyeva penned her column about an October 2018 suicide bombing by a 17-year-old student at the Federal...
Turkey’s Internet Regulation Sparks Fears of New Censorship Wave
In Turkey, new controls regulating internet broadcasting have come into force. The government says all broadcasters need to abide by...
Trump Rejects Criticism on Syria, Invites Erdogan to White House
U.S. President Donald Trump denies that the United States has abandoned Kurds in Syria ahead of Turkey’s planned invasion on...
Turkish Military Proclaims Itself Ready to Move Against Kurds in Syria
Steve Herman at the White House, Carla Babb at the Pentagon and Nike Ching at the State Department contributed to...
US Senate Panel Report Calls for Plan to Prevent Meddling in 2020 Presidential Election
The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee has issued a bipartisan report that calls on the U.S. government and private industry to...
Migrant Deaths in Mediterranean This Year Top 1,000
The International Organization for Migration reports fatalities from a shipwreck Monday off the coast of the Italian island of Lampedusa...
Louvre Opens Huge Outpost to Protect Art From Flooding
The Louvre opened a new sprawling art conservation center Tuesday some 200 kilometers (120 miles) from Paris to protect the...
Russian Language Law Raises Anxiety Among Minorities
Russia in the last school year enacted a law establishing Russian as the main language at all schools. The legislation...
Climate Activists Block Roads, Camp Out in Global Protests
Hundreds of climate change activists camped out in central London on Tuesday during a second day of world protests by...
Macron Pays Homage to ‘Victims of Islamic Terrorism’
French President Emmanuel Macron led a national tribute Tuesday to the four police employees slain in last week’s knife attack...
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