US Chipmaker’s Apology to China Draws Criticism

US Chipmaker’s Apology to China Draws Criticism

U.S. chipmaker Intel is facing criticism in China after it apologized Thursday for a letter the firm sent to suppliers...

White House Vows Diplomacy as Russia’s Putin Ratchets Up Rhetoric 

White House Vows Diplomacy as Russia’s Putin Ratchets Up Rhetoric 

The White House said Thursday that Washington is keeping a keen eye on Moscow and remains committed to diplomacy during...

AP Exclusive: Polish Opposition Senator Hacked With Spyware 

AP Exclusive: Polish Opposition Senator Hacked With Spyware 

Polish Senator Krzysztof Brejza’s mobile phone was hacked with sophisticated spyware nearly three dozen times in 2019 when he was...

West Condemns ‘Deployment’ of Russian Mercenaries in Mali 

West Condemns ‘Deployment’ of Russian Mercenaries in Mali 

More than a dozen Western powers on Thursday expressed anger that Russian mercenaries working for the controversial Wagner Group have...

No More Video Games on Tesla Screens While Cars Are Moving 

No More Video Games on Tesla Screens While Cars Are Moving 

Under pressure from U.S. auto safety regulators, Tesla has agreed to stop allowing video games to be played on center...

Jailed Belarusian Journalist Kuznechyk Faces Criminal Charges

Jailed Belarusian Journalist Kuznechyk Faces Criminal Charges

A freelance journalist, who has worked for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Belarus Service, remains in jail on unspecified charges, despite...

Minsk Labels RFE/RL’s Belarus Service as ‘Extremist’

Minsk Labels RFE/RL’s Belarus Service as ‘Extremist’

Belarus’s Interior Ministry has added RFE/RL’s Belarus Service, known locally as Radio Svaboda, to its registry of extremist organizations, in...

Putin Repeats Demands That West Provide Security Guarantees 

Putin Repeats Demands That West Provide Security Guarantees 

President Vladimir Putin has demanded that the West provide Russia with security guarantees “immediately” amid spiraling tensions involving a massive...

Pope Demands Humility in New Zinger-filled Christmas Speech

Pope Demands Humility in New Zinger-filled Christmas Speech

Pope Francis urged Vatican cardinals, bishops and bureaucrats Thursday to embrace humility this Christmas season, saying their pride, self-interest and...

Apple Must Answer Shareholder Questions on Forced Labor, SEC Says

Apple Must Answer Shareholder Questions on Forced Labor, SEC Says

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has declined an effort by Apple Inc. to skip a shareholder proposal asking the...

French Kids Line up to Get Vaccine Shots as Omicron Spreads

French Kids Line up to Get Vaccine Shots as Omicron Spreads

French schoolchildren clung nervously to their parents as they entered a vast vaccine center west of Paris on Wednesday —...

US and Russia to Hold Talks on Ukraine

US and Russia to Hold Talks on Ukraine

Russian and U.S. negotiators will hold talks in January to discuss Moscow’s demand that NATO halt its eastward expansion into...

Turkey Arrests US Diplomat for Allegedly Selling a Fake Passport to a Syrian National

Turkey Arrests US Diplomat for Allegedly Selling a Fake Passport to a Syrian National

Turkish authorities arrested a U.S. diplomat in Turkey last month for allegedly selling a bogus passport to a Syrian national,...

Azerbaijani Journalists React to Draft Media Bill

Azerbaijani Journalists React to Draft Media Bill

A media bill presented to Azerbaijan’s parliament has been criticized by some journalists who warn that it could restrict their...

Prosecutors Push for Life Sentences in Downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 

Prosecutors Push for Life Sentences in Downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 

Dutch prosecutors have demanded life sentences for four suspects on trial for the 2014 downing of a Malaysia Airlines flight...

Greece: Migrant Boat Sinks, 1 Dead, Dozens Feared Missing

Greece: Migrant Boat Sinks, 1 Dead, Dozens Feared Missing

Greece’s coast guard says one migrant has died and dozens are feared missing after a boat sank off the coast...

Germany Moves to Scrap Ban on ‘Advertising’ Abortions

Germany Moves to Scrap Ban on ‘Advertising’ Abortions

Germany’s justice minister says he will present legislation next month to remove from the country’s criminal code a ban on...

Sanctions on Russia Still Being Debated as Europeans Fear Costs

Sanctions on Russia Still Being Debated as Europeans Fear Costs

Poland and Lithuania have backed Ukraine in urging Western powers to immediately impose sanctions on Russia over its military buildup...

US: Talks with Russia Could Occur in January

US: Talks with Russia Could Occur in January

The United States believes bilateral talks with Russia over its massive troop buildup along the Ukrainian border could start in...

UN Calls on Belarus and Poland for Better Migrant Treatment

UN Calls on Belarus and Poland for Better Migrant Treatment

The U.N. human rights office is calling on Belarus and Poland to end what it calls appalling treatment of refugees...

Belarusian Blogger Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison for ‘Insulting’ Lukashenko

Belarusian Blogger Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison for ‘Insulting’ Lukashenko

A Belarusian blogger has been sentenced to three years in prison on charge of “insulting” Alexander Lukashenko by writing in...

Children of Detained Uyghurs Find Refuge in Istanbul School

Children of Detained Uyghurs Find Refuge in Istanbul School

In Turkey, Uyghur refugees who fled Chinese detention centers and other alleged rights abuses say they fear the Turkish government...