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A leading digital rights group on Wednesday kicked off a new campaign aimed at boosting federal legislation that would crack down on Big Tech monopolies. Fight for the Future’s (FFF) “Antitrust Summer” campaign is betting that grassroots organizing can help win passage of S. 2992 and S. 2710, respectively the American Innovat...
Former President Donald Trump and his two eldest children, Donald Jr. and Ivanka Trump, have agreed to be questioned under oath next month by lawyers with New York Attorney General Letitia James’ office unless the state’s highest court intervenes, a filing revealed Wednesday. The deal to begin the questioning on July 15 comes after...
KARACHI, Pakistan / ANKARA (AA) – At least 22 people were killed Wednesday when a passenger van plunged into a ravine in southwestern Pakistan, according to an official. The accident occurred while the van was negotiating a sharp turn in the mountainous range of Killa Saifullah district which is 333 kilometers (206 miles) from Quetta, [&...
ERBIL, Iraq (AA) – An explosion from an attack by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) injured three civilians in Iraq’s northern province of Erbil late Wednesday, according to officials. Security forces were dispatched to the area on the Erbil-Pirmam highway, media outlets reported. Vehicles sustained damage from the blast, but no casualtie...
With the U.S. Supreme Court expected to issue a ruling later this month that could overturn Roe v. Wade and imperil abortion rights nationwide, a group of 25 senators on Wednesday urged President Joe Biden to do all he can through executive action to protect reproductive freedoms at the federal level. In a letter led by Sens. Elizabeth Warren ...
JERUSALEM – Israeli forces have again demolished a Palestinian Bedouin village in the southern Negev region in the occupied West Bank. Aziz al-Touri, a member of the Committee for the Defense of al-Araqib informed that Israeli forces stormed the village and brought it to the ground for the 202nd time. Al-Touri confirmed that villagers intend [...
TRIPOLI, Libya – Three members of Libya’s western forces were killed during a military training in Tarhuna city, according to local media. The fatalities occurred during a live-fire exercise by the Tripoli-based Rada Forces, also known as the Special Deterrent Forces. There was no comment yet from Libyan authorities on the report. Rada ac...
ANKARA – Azerbaijan welcomes the talks between Türkiye and Armenia for the normalization of their ties, the country’s foreign minister has said. Jeyhun Bayramov’s remarks came in an exclusive interview in the Turkish capital Ankara, which he visited to attend the 30th Anniversary Reception of Diplomatic Relations with Friendly and ...
ISTANBUL – Brunei has appointed its first woman minister in a government reshuffle ordered by the country’s leader, Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah. Hajah Romaizah, who was serving as the deputy education minister, was promoted to the post of education minister. Bolkiah made the changes in his Cabinet in a special address to the nation bro...
GENEVA – Unless the world immediately shifts its total focus away from the war in Ukraine, there will be an explosion of child deaths in the Horn of Africa, a UN official has warned, urging the international community to act immediately. Rania Dagash, UNICEF’s deputy regional director for Eastern and Southern Africa, spoke at a […...
