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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's U.S.-backed opposition on Monday came under increasing scrutiny for a case in which two activists allegedly misappropriated funds designated to help Venezuelan security forces who deserted and crossed into Colombia.
Opposition leader Juan Guaidó said his diplomatic representative in Colombia will on Tuesday provide Colombian investigators with information about an opposition probe of the case....
Huawei aims to grab as much as half of the Chinese smartphone market to offset the overseas decline, sources say.
Huawei Technologies Co. is preparing for a 40% to 60% drop in international smartphone shipments as the Trump administration's blacklisting hammers one of the Chinese tech giant's most important businesses.
China's largest technology company is crunching internal estimates and exploring options...
Despite overall confidence in safety and effectiveness of vaccines, high-income countries show lowest levels of trust.
People in Western Europe have the lowest levels of confidence in vaccines worldwide, according to the world's biggest survey on global attitudes to public health and science.
More than a fifth - 22 percent - of people surveyed in Western Europe disagreed that vaccines are safe, while in...
Rescue workers pulling desperate migrants from the Mediterranean could face huge fines after entering Italian waters.
Rome, Italy - The Italian government has come under fire after passing a "security decree" that aims to curb migration by punishing charity search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean, despite repeated warnings - including from the United Nations - that the new rules violate the rights...
The former French football administrator has been questioned over the awarding of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar.
Former UEFA president Michel Platini will not face formal legal proceedings in an ongoing French probe into the awarding of the FIFA World Cup to Qatar.
The 63-year-old was released from custody late on Tuesday after being questioned by anti-corruption police over possible offences including private...
There are 22 measures objecting to a White House plan for $8bn in arms sales to Saudi Arabia without Congress approval.
US Senator Bob Menendez began the formal process on Tuesday of blocking a White House plan for eight billion dollars in military sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates without the consent of Congress, setting up Senate votes on...
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman should be investigated over killing of journalist Khashoggi, UN expert concludes.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman should be investigated over the killing of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a UN rights expert has concluded, citing "credible evidence".
In her long-anticipated report, which was released on Wednesday, UN extrajudicial executions investigator Agnes Callamard said Khashoggi's death "constituted an extrajudicial...
China has fallen behind slightly in the list of the world's top 500 supercomputers, which is published every six months.
The US maintained its position, holding first and second place with the two most powerful computers in the world.
At number one is Summit, with peak processing power of 200 petaflops - 200 quadrillion calculations per second.
The number of US supercomputers within...
Leah Pearlman draws comics about ideas like "emotional literacy" and "self-love". When she began posting them on Facebook, her friends responded warmly.
But then Facebook changed its algorithm - how it decides what to put in front of us. When social media is a big part of your life, an algorithm change can come as a shock.
Leah's content was being shown...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Shareholder activists on Wednesday urged Google parent Alphabet Inc to break itself up before regulators force the world’s biggest internet ad seller to split into different pieces.
Alphabet employees, community organizers and human rights activists gather for a rally after an annual shareholder meeting outside of the Google Cloud computing unit's headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, U.S.,...
In a press conference at the Paris Air Show, Qatar Airways CEO Akbar al Baker has announced that the airline has placed an order for five Boeing 777F freighter aircraft, to join its active fleet of 15 777F’s and in addition to its outstanding order for an additional six. Deliveries from this latest order will start in 2020.
The order...
DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia is seeking the death penalty for five of 21 people suspected of links to the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, but a U.N. rapporteur said on Wednesday that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman should also be investigated.
Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist and critic of Saudi policies, was killed in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul...
GENEVA/RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and other senior officials should be investigated over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi given credible evidence against them, a U.N. rights investigator said on Wednesday.
Khashoggi’s death stirred widespread disgust and hurt the image of the prince, previously admired in the West for pushing to end the kingdom’s oil dependence...
Children whose parents are divorced are more likely to get fat than those whose parents stay together, say researchers.
The weight gain is particularly marked in children whose parents divorce before they are six, the study found.
Researchers from the London School of Economics and Political Science analysed data on 7,574 children born between 2000 and 2002.
The authors say their findings back...
