Report: FTC Approves Roughly $5 Billion Fine for Facebook
The FTC has voted to approve a fine of about $5 billion for Facebook over privacy violations, the Wall Street...
Russian, Ukrainian Leaders Talk at Last
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, on Friday held their first talks since the election...
Egypt’s Top Movie Critic Youssef Cherif Rizkallah Dies
Egypt’s legendary movie critic and film historian Youssef Cherif Rizkallah, the man who helped popularize Hollywood movie reviews on Egyptian...
Turkey Challenges US as Russian Missiles Arrive
Updated: July 12, 2019, 1:37 p.m.Russia is delivering its S-400 missile system to Turkey, a move that threatens to rupture...
Iran Calls on Britain to Release Seized Iranian Oil Tanker
VOA Persian’s Katherine Ahn contributed to this report.Iran is demanding that Britain release an Iranian oil tanker seized last week...
India Prepares to Land Rover on Moon in Global Space Race
India is looking to take a giant leap in its space program and solidify its place among the world’s spacefaring...
UK PM May Takes Swipe at Front-Runner Boris Johnson
Outgoing British Prime Minster Theresa May has leveled a thinly disguised swipe at Conservative Party front-runner Boris Johnson as she...
Twitter, Facebook, Google Not Invited to Trump’s Social Media Summit
U.S. President Donald Trump hosted a Social Media Summit Thursday, inviting conservative media, pundits, think tanks and social media influencers. Trump...
Skull Fragments Could Push Back Human Timeline
Anthropologists know that humans migrated to Europe out of Africa thousands of years ago. But it’s been hard to get...
Europe’s Reported Syphilis Cases Increase 70% Since 2010
Syphilis cases have soared in Europe over the last decade and become, for the first time since the early 2000s,...
A Ford-VW-Argo Alliance Could Redraw Self-Driving Sector
An expanded alliance between Ford Motor Co. and Volkswagen AG that includes a partnership in Ford self-driving unit Argo AI...
Erdogan Faces New Challenger as Party Split Looms
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan could be facing his biggest political challenge, with the resignation of his former economic czar...
Trump Accuses Big Tech of Bias Against Conservative Voices
President Donald Trump said Thursday that big tech companies must not be allowed to censor the voices of the American...
Twitter Back Up Partially after Worldwide Outage
Story updated July 11, 2019, 5 p.m.Twitter Inc said on Thursday its microblogging platform was back up partially after suffering...
Italy: Lawmakers Want Salvini to Explain Alleged Russia Deal
Opposition lawmakers in Italy demanded Thursday to have Interior Minister Matteo Salvini appear in Parliament about allegations that a covert...
France Adopts Pioneering Tax on Internet Tech Giants After US Threat
France adopted a pioneering tax on internet giants like Google, Amazon and Facebook on Thursday, despite U.S. threats of new...
Ukraine-Russia Tensions Spark Human Rights Debate
A U.N. report on extensive human rights violations in the Russian-backed separatist regions of eastern Ukraine and in the Russian-annexed...
Trump Lashes Out on Twitter Ahead of Social Media ‘Summit’
President Donald Trump is lashing out at social media companies and the press ahead of his White House “Social Media...
Amazon to Train Third of US Workforce With Technical Skills
Amazon will spend more than $700 million to provide additional training to about one-third of its U.S. workforce.Amazon, which like...
Uber’s Expansion in West Africa Faces Hurdles
Ride-hailing application Uber, after successful launches in Ghana and Nigeria, is looking to expand in West Africa to Senegal’s capital,...
After Leaked Cables Draw President Trump’s Ire, Career UK Diplomat to US Resigns Early From Post
Transatlantic controversy surrounds the departure of Britain’s ambassador to the US, Kim Darroch, who resigned Wednesday after making candid and...
US: Iranian Boats ‘Harass’ British Tanker in Gulf
Five boats believed to belong to Iranian Revolutionary Guards approached a British oil tanker in the Gulf on Wednesday and...
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