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UNITED NATIONS, Sept 20- The leaders of Britain, France and Italy will push social media companies on Wednesday to remove "terrorist content" from the internet within one to two hours of it appearing because they say that is the period when most material is spread. British Prime Minister Theresa May, French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Prime Minister...
Kim Jong Un's weapon of choice may be nuclear weapons. Donald Trump's is ridicule — and it works — says Jake Novak.
BRUSSELS, Sept 19- Twitter Inc said that its internal controls were allowing it to weed out accounts being used for the "promotion of terrorism" earlier rather than responding to government requests to close them down. Britain's interior minister, Amber Rudd, used a visit to Silicon Valley last month to ask Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, and YouTube to step up...
North Korea sends an unspoken message ahead of President Trump's speech at the U.N. General Assembly.
The UN needs to hear from the real Donald Trump about North Korea, says Jake Novak.
The U.S. military on Monday flew a pair of B-1B bombers and F-35 fighter jets in bombing drills with South Korea over the Korean peninsula, South Korea's Defence Ministry said.
If South Korea is going to protect itself from North Korean missiles, it may want to talk to a country with experience.
BEIRUT, Sept 16- U.S.-backed militias in Syria said they came under attack on Saturday from Russian jets and Syrian government forces in Deir al-Zor province, a flashpoint in an increasingly complex battlefield. There was no immediate comment from Moscow or Damascus. Washington and Moscow support separate offensives in the Syrian conflict, with both...
The threat from North Korea is about more than missiles and nuclear weapons, says Korea Economic Institute's Troy Stangarone.
That could be the least of the inconveniences ahead for "Pharma Bro" Martin Shkreli, whose online rantings about Hillary Clinton prompted a judge this week to revoke his bail and put him in the Metropolitan Detention Center, a fortress-like federal jail that also houses terrorism and mob suspects. MDC, as the Brooklyn lockup for 1,800 men and women is known, has...
Like his base, President Trump should be wary of experts' wisdom, says National Review's Jonathan S. Tobin.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark— Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg says her foreign minister will become the new president of the World Economic Forum but will not immediately resign as head of Norway's diplomacy. The 51- year-old Brende, a member of Solberg's Conservative Party, has been central in talks between the Colombian government and leftist rebels in what...
North Korea reportedly launched a missile on Thursday that landed in the sea after passing over Japan.
TUNIS, Tunisia— Tunisia's Parliament has adopted a hotly disputed law giving amnesty to thousands of people linked to corruption under its former authoritarian regime. Hundreds of demonstrators protested outside the legislature saying they fear a return to Tunisia's pre-Arab Spring past. Many of those accused of corruption under former President Zine El...
LONDON, Sept 13- U.S. coal companies blame climate campaigners and the Obama administration for waging a war on coal that has cost thousands of jobs and threatened struggling mining communities. But coals long-term problems stem not from politics but from physical properties that make it an inferior source of energy compared with oil, gas and renewables.
LONDON, Sept 13- U.S. coal companies blame climate campaigners and the Obama administration for waging a war on coal that has cost thousands of jobs and threatened struggling mining communities. But coals long-term problems stem not from politics but from physical properties that make it an inferior source of energy compared with oil, gas and renewables.
Myanmar's de facto leader has canceled a trip to the UN General Assembly amid intense criticism for her handling of the Rohingya crisis.
Moscow stands accused of hiding the true intentions of its week-long war games.
BEIRUT— Syria's civil war has been one of the modern world's most brutal conflicts and one of its most heavily filmed. We don't have control of it, "said Hadi al-Khatib, co-founder of the Syrian Archive, a group founded in 2014 to preserve open source evidence of crimes committed by all sides of the Syrian conflict. Based on his database and review of around 900 groups...
JERUSALEM— Israeli banks are contributing to the proliferation of West Bank settlements by providing loans and mortgages for construction there, violating their human rights obligations, Human Rights Watch said in a report Wednesday. Human Rights Watch says the banks have helped the expansion of the West Bank settlements, which are now home to some 400,000...
