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According to state TV reports, government in Iran has confiscated around 1,000 Bitcoin mining devices from two former facilities.

'Falcon Eye 1' will be the fourth recon satellite launched by the UAE, brings the number to ten satellites in orbit. The UAE is planning to have 12 orbiting satellites by 2020.

The Bronx policeman, recognized by sources as Kevin Preiss, 53, was found dead with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head around 9:50 p.m. at his home in Hicksville, Nassau County police said on Wednesday.

North Korea rejected South Korean President Moon Jae-in's claim that the third summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un is being planned behind the scenes.

A heartbreaking picture of an El Salvadoran migrant and his 2-year-old daughter lying face down on the shore of the Rio Grande River after drowning highlights the dangers migrants encounter while attempting to reach America – and draws reactions from the Pope and presidential candidates.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that any conflict between the U.S. and Iran would be quick and that the U.S. is in strong position, even though he reiterated his intention to prevent a military clash while blasting the representatives of Tehran.

Right now there are four AAA titles with a massive budget which will only be available to PlayStation users: The Last of Us Part II, Ghost of Tsushima, Death Stranding and Final Fantasy VII Remake.

The Quayside "Smart City" project in Toronto, Canada continues to face criticism from supporters for privacy and current and former employees

The United Arab Emirates are looking for a de-escalation of tension in the Middle East, ADNOC CEO Ahmed Al Jaber said on Tuesday after Iran accused the United States of shutting down the road to diplomacy with additional economic sanctions.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Turkey would finalizethe purchase of Russia's missile defense system S-400 in July

Michael Phuong Minh Nguyen, 55, confessed that he wanted to start protests, but he denied more severe accusations of preparing to...

The International Olympic Committee announced on Monday that it has accepted the bid by Italy to host the 2026 Winter Olympics, which will take place in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo.

President Trump hit Iran back on Monday by imposing economic sanctions against Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his partners.

From having your liquor permit to canceling your phone contract, Dubai has made life a lot easier for foreign residents.

After PC Magazine, a popular American computer magazine, said that FedEx refused to send the device, FedEx had apologized suggesting that it was an "operational mistake."

Kris Bosen, a 21-year-old man from Bakersfield, CA, has undergone a historic stem cells therapy that allows him to recover from paralysis

According to the state-run press agency Anadolu, the Turkish opposition's mayoral candidate, Ekrem Imamoglu, won again in a new election in Istanbul on Sunday, winning over 54 percent of the vote.

As the latest escalation of conflict in the middle east has already shown, a war between the US and Iran would impact global oil prices

Trusted Turkish intelligence sources disclosed files on the Palestinian prisoner Zaki Hassan's "assassination"

Microsoft has prohibited its 100,000 + staff from using the free version of Slack

A fake Twitter account allegedly belonging to former director of the French intelligence, Bernard Bajolet, has been spotted earlier today.

Ford promised that the 2020 Mustang Shelby GT500 would be its strongest car ever, and it wasn't joking.

Transport ship full of cocaine was confiscated at a port in Philadelphia in what the police say is the biggest seizure in the history

Joseph Allen's relatives claim he was healthy and visited the Dominican Republic frequently. Several of the visitors who died during this year drank from their...

Apple makes it a point to stress safety and privacy characteristics with every product announcement. This occurred at Apple's annual event

Masses of demonstrators calling for a fresh age of wealth and accountability in Sudan celebrated earlier this year as army armies overthrew Omar al-Bashir, the long-ruling dictator of the country.

Anti-Semitism in Qatar has come under the spotlight of rare international television, with a Qatari official refusing to make an outright denunciation of hate speech

As lights came back on across South America after a massive blackout hit tens of millions people, officials were still mainly in the dark about what caused the crash

Speculation is growing that this summer French midfield star Paul Pogba will make a big-money change from Manchester United to Real Madrid

One of the universe's biggest secrets is dark matter, representing five times more matter than any other.

Donald Trump said he had been briefed on Navy pilots reporting heightened sightings of unidentified flying objects, adding he does not believe in UFOs in particular.

In the wake of Washington's removal of important trade rights for New Delhi, India will enforce greater retaliatory tariffs on 28 U.S. products

The UK Ministry of Defense insisted that there is nothing to worry about after a Chinese company was found producing circuit...

According to a study from Brown University's "Costs of War" initiative, the Pentagon has produced over a billion metric tonnes of greenhouse gases since the start of the worldwide war on terrorism in 2001.

The reported assault on two "Japan-related" oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman has been marked by Iran's foreign minister as...

According to a study by Chris Dougherty of the Center for New American Security (CNAS), released on Wednesday, America requires a "new way of war."

In High Court, UK domestic counter-intelligence service MI5 was charged with violating data collection and storage privileges by storing information from private citizens in bulk without adequate protection.

Now, Iran continues at a high point of readiness with all those additional U.S. troops and the military bases in the region.

Kim Jong Un's half-brother worked as a CIA informant before being assassinated in 2017 at a Malaysian airport, according to a Monday report.

A helicopter crashed Monday on the roof of a skyscraper in midtown Manhattan, killing the pilot, officials said.

An official Chinese newspaper said on Monday that “foreign forces” are trying to deliberately hurt China by causing chaos in Hong Kong over an extradition bill that has started mass protests in this former British colony.

George Carlin, the legendary comedian and activist, is most likely one of the most controversial and outspoken entertainers of his time

Well over 71 million children in Pakistan have been vaccinated against polio so far as part of a large UAE campaign in this South Asian country that began five years ago.

Two former Republican state Senators have been found shot and killed in their homes this week. Former...

The family of the deceased Army veteran is looking for answers from Pennsylvania authorities fourteen months after he mysteriously died in a local jail, his organs removed and never returned. No one seems to know exactly what happened.

The United Arab Emirates have recently started permanent residency plan which could potentially be a game changer and provide a boost to the real estate market

Fotis Dulos, the husband of missing Connecticut mother Jennifer Dulos, has been arrested in connection with her disappearance, according to Connecticut police.

Genetic modification of human life sounds like a term taken straight out of some Sci-Fi movie, but it’s actually a very real possibility, and one that’s being heavily discussed in the scientific community worldwide.

On April 8th, just before London police forcibly carried WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange out of the Ecuadorian embassy, a doctor named Sondra S Crosby wrote a letter to the Office of the United Nations

President Donald Trump may have actually admitted what many claim to know for more than two years now: Russia helped elect him as president.

Few weeks ago the U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres alarmed that a large concrete nuclear dome constructed 40 years ago in the Marshall Islands contains radioactive waste from Cold War-era nuclear tests conducted by the United States.

The trade war between the two of the world's largest economies escalated quickly this month with both sides slapping tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars worth of each other’s goods.

Ellen told Letterman how her mother, Betty DeGeneres, got married to "a very bad man" when she was a teen

Christopher John Kulish, 62, died on Monday right after reaching the top of Mount Everest on the Nepal side of the mountain.

Donald Trump visited Japan where, on Monday, he backed the Japanese prime minister's interest in using Japan's good relations with Iran to help establish a possible dialogue between the U.S. and its current enemy in the Middle East.

According to the Daily Mail reports MI6 spies have somehow smuggled Russian strategic defense secrets in a tea bag on board a Venezuela-bound supersonic...

JAPAN/TOKYO - Miwa Moriya was 6 when social workers told her she was going to a Christmas party, but have instead moved her into a group home for about 60 children in a small city in western Japan.

The Qatari president of French soccer club Paris Saint-Germain, Nasser al-Khelaifi, is formally under investigation in France for alleged corruption related to Doha’s bid to host the athletics world championship, his lawyers confirmed on Thursday.

Julian Assange indicted under espionage act, obtaining and publishing classified material, represents a grave threat to all Americans' First Amendment rights,...

The 193 member states of the UN on Wednesday voted for the UK to hand over control of the Chagos islands to Mauritius "as soon as possible".

President Donald Trump spent the entirety of the last week talking about possible military action against Iran, discussing the number of troops that would be involved, and threatening that war would mean the “official end of Iran.”

The growing animosity between Huawei Technologies and the U.S. government was inevitable and a sales ban imposed by the Trump administration will literally have no...

In wake of the restrictions, Google has suspended business activity with the Chinese giant. Other suppliers, including Qualcomm, Broadcom, Intel and Xilinx, told employees they will not sell to the Chinese firm until further notice, according to Bloomberg News.

President Trump unveiled a long-awaited immigration plan change that would dramatically alter how the U.S. accepts people into the country, by favoring...

An F-16 fighter jet crashed into a warehouse while attempting to land at March Air Reserve Base in Southern California, an Air Force official confirmed late Thursday.

On Tuesday night, Alabama’s majority-Republican Senate passed a bill which, if signed by Republican Gov. Kay Ivey, would ban almost all abortions in the state and could punish doctors who perform them with life in prison.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said the United States does not seek a war with Iran, amid rapidly growing...

WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook, said the attack targeted a "select number" of users, and was orchestrated by "an advanced cyber actor".

China’s economy will also most likely grow to be bigger than that of the U.S., and at the moment, this seems inevitable.

The prediction comes as the U.S. and China continue to square off in a trade war that has turned the global markets upside down.

44 U.S. states filed a lawsuit in which they're accusing Teva Pharmaceuticals USA of orchestrating a scheme with 19 other drug companies to inflate drug prices

Facebook co-founder in a New York Times editorial today said the social networking giant has become a corporate monopoly with too much power and said the federal government needs to step in and break up the company.

Deadly thunderstorms unleashed baseball-sized hail, flooding rainfall and numerous tornadoes across western portions of Texas and Oklahoma Tuesday into late Wednesday

South Africa - With results declared in some 23% of districts, the ANC has won about 55% of the ballot, well...

President Trump’s aggressive trade policies are running head first into his campaign for reelection.

UN - The Committee on Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) concluded its work after reviewing the complaint submitted...

Up to 1 million of the estimated 8 million plant and animal species on Earth are at risk of extinction — many of them within decades — according to scientists and researchers who produced a sweeping U.N. report on how humanity's burgeoning growth is putting the world's biodiversity at perilous risk.

In threatening an escalation of a trade war with China over the weekend, President Donald Trump claimed that the tariffs already in place have boosted the economy.

41 people were killed Sunday after a Russian airliner made a hard emergency landing and caught fire at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport, officials said.

A U.S. citizen was arrested on Saturday and is suspected of murdering a shopkeeper in a town near Rome, police said.

The projectiles were fired from North Korea's east-coast town of Wonsan in a northeastern direction and reportedly toward the East Sea, the agency said, citing a news release.

Venezuelan opposition supporters gathered for a second day of mass protests against embattled President Nicolas Maduro on Wednesday, less than 24 hours after Guaido's attempted coup led to violent clashes with pro-government forces.

Juan Guaido called for the “largest march” in the country’s history, a day after he called for the military to oust President Nicolas Maduro, causing chaos in the streets of Caracas.

For the first time in over 200 years, a Japanese emperor has abdicated the Chrysanthemum Throne.

A U.S. Army veteran, Mark Steven Domingo, has been arrested for an attempted domestic terrorist attack in “multiple” Los Angeles locations in “retribution” for the mosque mass shooting in New Zealand last month, federal prosecutors announced Monday.

China and the United Arab Emirates are expanding trade and investment ties through new deals worth $3.4 billion.

The ruling socialist party of Spain won the most seats in the country's parliament by far. It does however need the support of smaller parties in order to stay in power.

Qualcomm says they have deployed patches for this bug (CVE-2018-11976) earlier this month

The prison term was what the Justice Department requested for Butina, though she’ll spend closer to nine months behind bars thanks to time already served in jail.

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia — Russian President Vladimir Putin met Thursday with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, saying the summit should help...

The workers took to the streets, calling out oppressive government policies, overdue wages and inhuman working conditions.

US oil prices went above $65 per barrel on Monday for the first time since October last year after the White House pledged to deepen its crackdown on Iran.

So far, police have arrested 24 people in connection with the attacks; the worst violence the South Asian island has seen since its civil war ended 10 years ago.

Blasts occurred during Easter services at churches in the cities of Colombo, Negombo and Batticaloa.

Dozens of Molotov cocktails were thrown at officers during unrest in the Creggan area of the city, according to the Police Service of Northern Ireland.

US President Donald Trump refused to meet Sheikh Tamim Al-Thani, Qatari Emir, over the Arab nation’s ties with terrorist outfits like Muslim Brotherhood and for supporting Iran revolutionary guards.

Qatar and Turkey are close regional allies and have supported the Sudanese regime and the West Libya government in Tripoli.

Specifically, they're promising that the PS5 will support 8K graphics, 3D audio, super fast SSDs, and backwards compatibility with existing PlayStation 4 games.

According to Reuters report, the Trump administration will allow lawsuits in U.S. courts for the first time against foreign companies that use properties Communist-ruled Cuba confiscated since Fidel Castro’s revolution six decades ago, a senior U.S. official said on Tuesday.

World2Day - The three-day event will unfold across about 1,400 miles, including parts of the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic that got battered...

PARIS — France rose Tuesday to confront the smoldering remains of the Notre Dame Cathedral, as officials said they were confident...

It looks like the company will continue the trend of releasing its new-gen chip before others, with its Kirin 985 slated to go into mass production in Q2 2019.

Notre-Dame, Paris - The cause of the blaze was not immediately clear, but officials say that it could be linked to renovation work.

Last Sunday, the US military announced that it will temporarily withdraw its troops stationed in Libya without disclosing the number

Users hurled to other social media platforms to report issues accessing the services moments later, as reports of outages filtered in from parts of North America, Europe, Asia and Africa

Back in February, the trend stole the show at MWC 2019 as many phone makers announced their plans for foldable phones.

Activist Facebook investors are again going to try to oust Mark Zuckerberg as chairman and abolish what they see as the firm's unfair share structure.

Freed from prison and interpersonal issues with Aram (Amir Arison), Reddington turned his attention to the narc inside his criminal network.

For a very long time, the worst-kept secret in all of motoring has been that the new ‘C8’ Chevy Corvette will go mid-engine.

Facebook has unpublished the page of Ecuador’s former president, Rafael Correa

In an indictment revealed this morning, U.S. authorities alleged that Assange conspired with former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to steal and publish large amounts of classified documents.

Assange arrested following the withdrawal of asylum by the Ecuadorian government

Benjamin Netanyahu is set to serve a fifth term as Israel’s prime minister after his main rival, Gantz, admitted he had lost the election.

Michael and Bonnie Haim had been having marital problems, and he has long been a prime suspect in the case, his defense attorney Janis Warren said in her opening remarks.

President Donald Trump blasted the investigation into Russian election interference and obstruction of justice as “an attempted coup” against his presidency.

World2Day - Sarajevo has always been an exciting intersection of important roads from Eastern to Western Europe, from the Mediterranean...

The Walking Dead superstar Norman Reedus just visited Kojima Productions for the first time ever.

His comments come just one day after President Trump played up his pro-Israel agenda in a speech before an influential conservative Jewish group.

World2Day - Pakistan's foreign minister says the government has "reliable information" that India was planning an attack for next week -- claims its nuclear neighbor immediately dismissed as "irresponsible and preposterous."

The two leaders, who have fought fiercely for months over the future of Britain, are now attempting to make a deal that can then be negotiated with the rest of the EU.

Details of the payments made by Qatar to Muslim Brotherhood organisations in Europe, including furnishing funds used by the academic Tariq...

SAP said in January around 4,400 people would leave under the restructuring.

The arrested are not said to be frontline activists, but writers and bloggers discussing reform.

BBCJamil Hassan, one of the most feared men in Bashar al-Assad's Syrian regime, wanted for the torture and killing of civilians, was shaking as...

The suspect, a 50-year-old Saudi psychiatrist named Taleb A., has lived in Germany for nearly 20...

Danai Nesta Kupemba / BBCAt London's famous Hyde Park at around 11:00 on a crisp Saturday morning, runners gather at some benches - some...

Two people have been killed, including a child, and dozens injured after a car drove into a crowd at a Christmas market in the...

Siin experienceIn the midst of the scramble for a new Syria, the country's musicians are warily eyeing the Islamist rebel leadership and hoping to...

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Getty ImagesIt was one of the worst weeks of his political career, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was ringing in the season.At...

The Dutch government wants to introduce some of the toughest asylum rules in Europe, but it...

A car has driven into a crowd at a Christmas market in the German city of...

The decision has brought criticism from influential business figures, who say high rates are hindering business...