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British MP on Tuesday claimed Facebook knew about potentially malicious Russian activity in 2014, long before such activity becomes public, during a parliamentary hearing where international lawmakers grilled the company. Damian Collins, head of a parliamentary inquiry into fake news and

Hundreds of Tunisians protested on Tuesday against a visit by Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, denouncing the top Saudi royal as a murderer in the second straight day of demonstrations condemning the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Crown Prince Mohammed bin

Local civil-society groups plan to organize demonstrations on Monday evening to protest an expected visit the following day by Saudi Crown Prince M. bin Salman. “Tunisian civil-society groups are organizing protests against bin Salman’s scheduled visit on Tuesday,” Sakina Abdel Samad,

Hundreds of Central American migrants who tried to force through a Mexican police blockade into the United States retreated to a nearby camp Monday after U.S. border agents pushed them back with tear gas and rubber bullets. The group of around

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko signed a decree on Monday to introduce martial law for 60 days, a statement on his website said, though it needs parliamentary approval to come into force. The decision came a day after Russia fired at and

The United Nations emergency fund released $9.2 milllion to Venezuela on Monday to fund humanitarian programs including health and nutritional assistance to women and children, its first allocation in the crisis, a U.N. spokesman said. The agreement represents a turnaround for

NATO head Jens Stoltenberg called on Russian on Monday to release Ukrainian navy ships and sailors, saying there was no justification for Moscow’s actions. “What we saw yesterday was very serious,” Stoltenberg told a news conference after an emergency meeting of

Four soldiers were killed and another was wounded after a military helicopter crashed in a residential area in Istanbul’s Sancaktepe district on Monday. The Bell UH-1 helicopter crashed onto a street between apartments in the Asian district of Sancaktepe, where a