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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is threatening to “open the gates” to millions of refugees to enter Europe as criticism...

Thousands View Video of Attack Near German Synagogue

10/10/2019 Newsmaker

Thousands of people have watched the video uploaded by a gunman who killed two people Wednesday near a synagogue in...

Climate Change Activist Climbs on Plane, Others Stop Traffic

10/10/2019 Newsmaker

Protesters in New York City brought traffic to a standstill in the city’s busiest hub and an activist in London...

Nobel Literature Pick Heartens Liberal Poles in Populist Era

10/10/2019 Newsmaker

The Swedish Academy’s decision to bestow the 2018 Nobel Prize in literature on Polish author Olga Tokarczuk has given a...

US: Military Carried out Aerial Resources Survey of Greenland

10/10/2019 Newsmaker

The U.S. military has conducted an aerial survey of Greenland to assess the vast arctic island’s mineral potential as part...

Ukraine Leader: Predecessor Trying to Derail Peace Process

10/10/2019 Newsmaker

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy accused his predecessor on Thursday of fomenting protests to derail a peace process for the country’s...

Analysts: Russia Goes Along with Turkey, But Has Red Lines

10/10/2019 Newsmaker

Russian leader Vladimir Putin appears to have endorsed Turkey’s military incursion into northeast Syria, but is drawing some red lines...

Polish Author Tokarczuk and Austria’s Handke Win Nobel Literature Prize

10/10/2019 Newsmaker

Polish author Olga Tokarczuk and Austria’s Peter Handke have been awarded the Nobel Literature Prize.The award was not given last...

Ukrainian President Says ‘No Blackmail’ in Trump Call

10/10/2019 Newsmaker

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Thursday there was “no blackmail” in his July phone call with U.S. President Donald Trump...

Turkey Says Ground Forces are Advancing in Northern Syria

10/10/2019 Newsmaker

Turkish ground forces pressed their advance against Kurdish fighters in northern Syria on Thursday, Turkey’s Defense Ministry said, launching airstrikes...

Ukraine’s Zelenskiy Plays Hot and Cold With Trump Team

10/09/2019 Newsmaker

Ukraine’s president appears to be playing to both sides of the American political divide, hedging his bets to ensure U.S....

European Union Finds Ransomware Is Top Cybercrime

10/09/2019 Newsmaker

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’

10/09/2019 Newsmaker

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

10/09/2019 Newsmaker

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

10/09/2019 Newsmaker

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

10/09/2019 Newsmaker

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

10/09/2019 Newsmaker

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

10/09/2019 Newsmaker

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

10/09/2019 Newsmaker

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

10/09/2019 Newsmaker

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

10/09/2019 Newsmaker

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’

10/09/2019 Newsmaker

Russia’s Justice Ministry has branded opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s nonprofit Anti-Corruption Foundation a “foreign agent” under a 2012 law that...