Abandoned Siberian Factory Could Cause Chernobyl-style Disaster, Official Warns 

Abandoned Siberian Factory Could Cause Chernobyl-style Disaster, Official Warns 

MOSCOW – A Russian state official warned on Wednesday that an abandoned chemicals factory in Siberia could cause an environmental...

Former Kosovo PM Refuses to Answer Court’s Questions

Former Kosovo PM Refuses to Answer Court’s Questions

Kosovo’s former prime minister refused to answer questions put to him Wednesday by prosecutors at a court investigating alleged war...

Netflix Film: Data Is the New Oil So Watch Out for Mass Mining

Netflix Film: Data Is the New Oil So Watch Out for Mass Mining

Big business and politics are mass-mining everyday data — from Facebook ‘likes’ to online subscriptions – for profit and power,...

Facebook Settles for $5 Billion Over Handling of User Data

Facebook Settles for $5 Billion Over Handling of User Data

Facebook has agreed to a $5 billion settlement over allegations that the social media company mishandled user’s personal data.The settlement,...

Futuristic Space Habitat Solves Problems With Human Space Travel

Futuristic Space Habitat Solves Problems With Human Space Travel

Fifty years ago, the first humans landed on the moon.  Many engineers and scientists have been thinking about what the...

Russia Raises Pressure on Georgia as Anger Mounts

Russia Raises Pressure on Georgia as Anger Mounts

It has been more than a month since people in the Republic of Georgia started taking to the streets to...

Russia Says it Will Scrutinize Mueller’s Congressional Testimony

Russia Says it Will Scrutinize Mueller’s Congressional Testimony

Russian government officials are watching former U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s testimony before Congress Wednesday while continuing to deny Moscow...

Russia and China Deny Violating South Korean Airspace

Russia and China Deny Violating South Korean Airspace

Both Russia and China are denying their military aircraft violated South Korea’s territorial airspace during a joint air patrol Tuesday.The...

Big Tech Faces Broad US Justice Department Antitrust Probe

Big Tech Faces Broad US Justice Department Antitrust Probe

The U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday it was opening a broad investigation of major digital technology firms into whether...

Navalny Says He Was Detained By Russian Police As He Was Jogging

Navalny Says He Was Detained By Russian Police As He Was Jogging

Russian opposition figure Aleksei Navalny says he was detained by police in Moscow shortly after he left his apartment for...

UN Nuclear Watchdog to Start Search for New Chief

UN Nuclear Watchdog to Start Search for New Chief

The UN’s nuclear watchdog has announced it will meet Thursday to start the hunt for a new director general to...

Virtual Reality Art Show Transports Visitors Into Alternate Realities

Virtual Reality Art Show Transports Visitors Into Alternate Realities

Virtual reality, or VR, is not just a medium for software engineers who can code. Artists and filmmakers are exploring...

France Stresses Need for Iran to Respect Nuclear Accord

France Stresses Need for Iran to Respect Nuclear Accord

French authorities in a meeting Tuesday with an Iranian envoy stressed the need for Tehran to quickly respect the 2015...

Spain’s Sanchez Loses First Bid to Be Confirmed as PM, Eyes Thursday Vote

Spain’s Sanchez Loses First Bid to Be Confirmed as PM, Eyes Thursday Vote

Spain’s Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez failed on Tuesday in a first attempt to get parliament’s backing to form a government,...

Kosovo Former PM Set to Be Grilled by War Crimes Court

Kosovo Former PM Set to Be Grilled by War Crimes Court

Kosovo’s outgoing prime minister and wartime guerrilla commander Ramush Haradinaj, left Tuesday for the Hague to be interrogated by a...