WASHINGTON – The Biden administration is working with lawmakers to find ways to prevent data gathered by various Chinese social-media apps threatening national security, President Joe Biden’s commerce chief said.…
MI5 missed chance to stop bombing at Ariana Grande’s 2017 Manchester concert: UK inquiry
LONDON – Britain’s security services missed a “significant” opportunity to take action which might have prevented a 2017 deadly suicide bombing at the end of an Ariana Grande pop concert…
Blinken, Lavrov speak amid war of words over Ukraine at G-20 meet
NEW DELHI – The United States and its European allies sparred with Russia over the war in Ukraine at a meeting of G-20 foreign ministers in New Delhi on Thursday,…
Tesla shares sink after Elon Musk’s ‘Master Plan’ fails to charge up investors
Musk and more than a dozen executives laid out fresh plans to cut assembly costs by half, invest in a new plant in Mexico and discussed the company’s innovation in…
Blinken condemns Russia’s ‘systematic muzzling’ of critics at UN rights council
Blinken described Russia’s civil society crackdown as a “systematic muzzling” and also urged UN-appointed investigators to continue documenting Russia’s Ukraine abuses to provide “an impartial record of what’s occurring, and…
Greek rail workers strike over working conditions after deadly train collision
Rescuers using cranes and heavy machinery on Thursday searched the wreckage of trains involved in a deadly collision that sent Greece into national mourning and prompted strikes and protests over…
Russian mercenary boss says video shows his fighters near centre of Ukraine’s Bakhmut
MOSCOW – The founder of Russia’s Wagner mercenary force on Thursday published a video showing his fighters in what he said was almost the centre of Bakhmut, the small Ukrainian…
Kremlin says Ukrainian ‘terrorists’ attacked border region, are being destroyed
MOSCOW – The Kremlin said on Thursday that measures were being taken to destroy “Ukrainian terrorists” who had mounted a cross-border attack and were reported by Russian officials to have…
Former Italy PM Conte investigated over response to Covid-19 pandemic
MILAN – Italian prosecutors have placed former prime minister Giuseppe Conte under investigation for allegedly mishandling the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak in early 2020, three sources with direct knowledge of the…
Turkish rescuers save trapped dog three weeks after quake
ISTANBUL – Rescuers pulled a dog alive from a collapsed building in southern Turkey three weeks after last month’s 7.8-magnitude deadly earthquake, local media reported on Thursday. The teams from…