PARIS, France - Google has begun limiting third-party cookies for some users of its Chrome web browser, a first step towards eventually abandoning the files that have raised privacy concerns. (Photo by JUSTIN SULLIVAN / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP) Google, which announced...
NEW YORK, United States - An imam who was shot Wednesday outside a mosque near New York has died, said a state's attorney who added that the killing did not initially appear to be driven by "bias" or domestic terrorism. The prosecutor said that the man, Hassan Sharif, was shot multiple times...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - An Argentine court has approved the transfer of a grounded Venezuelan plane to US authorities, the justice ministry said Wednesday, in a long-running judicial and diplomatic saga also involving Iran. View of the Boeing 747-300 registrered number YV3531 of Venezuelan...
LOS ANGELES, United States -A US teenager has beaten classic computer game Tetris, forcing it into a game-ending glitch in a feat previously achieved only by artificial intelligence. Willis Gibson, 13, a competitive gamer known as "blue scuti," became the first human to reach the "kill screen"...
NEW YORK, United States - A New York judge began to unseal Wednesday the identities of people linked in court documents to Jeffrey Epstein, the US financier who killed himself in 2019 as he awaited trial for sex crimes. This undated handout photo obtained July 8, 2019, courtesy of the Palm...
LOS ANGELES, United States - A convicted felon lunged at a US judge on Wednesday as she was about to sentence him to jail, in a dramatic courtroom scuffle caught on video. Footage shows Deobra Redden, 30, launching himself over the bench at Judge Mary Kay Holthus and attacking her in the Clark...
MADRID (AFP) -- Spanish World Cup-winning star Jenni Hermoso told a judge on Tuesday, Jan. 2, that the kiss forced on her by disgraced former Spanish football chief Luis Rubiales was "at no point consensual" and that she had come under pressure to defend his actions. Spain's Jenni Hermoso (AFP)...
ISTANBUL, Turkey - Turkey announced on Tuesday it had detained 34 people suspected of planning abductions and spying on behalf of Israel's Mossad intelligence service. The raids came just weeks after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned of "serious consequences" should Israel try to target figures...
PARIS, France - French President Emmanuel Macron called on Israel to avoid escalation, "particularly in Lebanon", following a strike in Beirut attributed to Israel that killed Hamas's deputy leader, the Elysee Palace said Tuesday. Palestinian Hamas supporters in the West Bank city of Ramallah...
NEW YORK, United States - US prosecutors unveiled new criminal charges against Senator Robert Menendez on Tuesday, alleging he took bribes to help a businessman secure investment from a fund with ties to Qatar's government. Menendez already faces corruption-related charges in the same case, which...
WASHINGTON, United States - Former US president Donald Trump filed an appeal on Tuesday against a ruling by the top election official in Maine that would keep him off the presidential primary ballot in the northeastern state. Maine last week joined Colorado in barring Trump from appearing on the...
KYIV, Ukraine - Deadly strikes hit residential buildings in Ukraine and a Russian border region Tuesday as an escalation of aerial attacks also wounded dozens and prompted Kyiv to urge speedier Western weapons shipments. TOPSHOT - Fire and burnt-out cars are seen after a missile strike in Kyiv on...
