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Protests On Roads Near Hong Kong Airport Disrupt Air Travel

Hong Kong - Anti-government protesters blocked roads near Hong Kong's airport with burning barricades and damaged a train station Sunday after a night of violent clashes with polic...

Far-Right Surges In 2 East German Elections But Doesn’t Win

Berlin - A far-right party made strong gains in a pair of state elections in eastern Germany on Sunday, but opponents from the political mainstream won both votes — salvaging their...

Saudi-Led Airstrikes Kill At Least 65 In Rebel-Run Prison

Sanaa, Yemen - The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen launched multiple airstrikes on Sunday against a detention center operated by the Houthi rebels in the southwestern provinc...

In Escalating Trade War, US Consumers May See Higher Prices

Washington - The United States and China on Sunday put in place their latest tariff increases on each other's goods, potentially raising prices Americans pay for some clothes, shoe...

WWII’s Start Marked In Poland With German Remorse, Warning

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Warsaw - Germany's president expressed deep remorse for the suffering his nation inflicted on Poland and the rest of Europe during World War II, warning of the dangers of nationali...

Ex-Imam Removed From Running In Canadian Elections Over Alleged Anti-Semitic Comments

Montreal - The Liberal Party of Canada ousted a candidate for upcoming national election after B’nai Brith Canada revealed past allegedly anti-Semitic comments. Hassan Guillet, ...

WWII: A Memory Battleground On The 80th Anniversary

Warsaw - Commemorations marking the 80th anniversary of the start of World War II in Poland this weekend come as the war has become a messy battleground of memory. In Poland and...

Mysterious Iran Rocket Blast Draws Trump Tweet, Tehran Taunt

Dubai - The unexplained explosion of a rocket at an Iranian space center grew more mysterious Saturday as President Donald Trump tweeted what appeared to be an American surveillanc...

North Korea Berates Pompeo, Says Hopes For Talks Fading

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Seoul - A senior North Korean diplomat on Saturday berated U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo over his comments describing North Korean behavior as "rogue" and warned that Pyongya...

Hong Kong Police Storm Subway With Batons As Protests Rage [VIDEO]

Hong Kong - Protesters in Hong Kong threw gasoline bombs at government headquarters and set fires in the streets, while police stormed a subway car and hit passengers with batons a...

Taliban Attack 2nd Afghan City As US Envoy Says Deal Is Near

Kabul - The Taliban launched an attack on a second Afghan city in as many days on Sunday, an official said, even as a United States envoy says the U.S. and the Taliban are "at the ...

Trump’s 15% Tariffs On $112B In Chinese Goods Take Effect

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Washington - The Trump administration's latest round of tariffs on Chinese imports took effect early Sunday, potentially raising prices Americans pay for some clothes, shoes, sport...

Twitter CEO Dorsey’s Account Sent Racist Tweets After Hack

San Francisco - Hackers briefly gained control of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's account Friday, sending racist and vulgar tweets to his 4.2 million followers. Some of the tweets wer...

Operation Indiscriminately Infects iPhones With Spyware

Cupertino, CA - Researchers say suspected nation-state hackers infected Apple iPhones with spyware over two years in what security experts on Friday called an alarming security fai...

US Treasury Blacklists Lebanese Bank Allegedly Funding Hezbollah

Washington - The United States sanctioned the Lebanon-based Jammal trust bank and its subsidiaries for allegedly working for Hezbollah. The Treasury Department said Thursday tha...

Germany Facilitates Citizenship For Families Who Fled Nazi Regime

Germany - Germany said it will make naturalization easier for some people, including Jews, who fled the Nazi regime because of persecution. The move Friday was announced in two ...

Report: YouTube Settles FTC Complaint For At Least $150M

San Francisco - A published report says Google will pay at least $150 million to settle a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission over how it treats information from children...

UN Warns Ceasefire Violations Could Spark Lebanon-Israel War

United Nations - The U.N. Security Council warned Thursday that violations of the cessation of hostilities between Israel and Lebanon in the latter country's south "could lead to a...

Russian Denies Reports Of Hacking Benny Gantz’s Phones And Computers

Tel Aviv - The Russian Embassy in Tel Aviv has denied that Russians are behind the hacking of the cellphone of Benny Gantz, the head of the Blue and White Party, and Gantz called t...

Cracked iPhone Screen? You’ll Have More Places To Fix It

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San Francisco - Apple is loosening its grip on how its products are repaired to give customers more options for fixing cracked screens and other defects on their older iPhones. ...