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France’s regulatory body dealing with data privacy has fined Google €50 million regarding advertisers’ access to users’ personal data, it announced on Monday. The National Commission on Informatics and Liberty (CNIL) said Google LLC received the financial...

The public disagreements between Kosovo’s President and Prime Minister over the tariffs imposed on goods from Serbia and Bosnia are undermining the country’s negotiating position, an expert has warned. Disagreements between Kosovo leaders over the 100-per-cent...

WASHINGTON — A new study offers some of the strongest evidence yet of the connection between the marketing of opioids to doctors and the nation’s addiction epidemic. It found that counties where opioid manufacturers offered a...

Sony Corp.’s RCA music label has scrubbed R. Kelly from its lineup after a documentary series renewed the furor surrounding allegations of criminal sexual misconduct. As of Friday morning, R. Kelly was no longer featured  on RCA’s...

The EU has targeted individuals in Syria and Russia with links to chemical weapons attacks. The bloc has been discussing the new sanctions regime since late last year, prompted by the Skripal poisoning in the UK....

Most of the asylum-seekers that were deported were sent to Italy. The deportations follow the EU’s Dublin III rule, which states that applications must be processed in the first country of arrival. In 2018, more refugees...

Israel has struck several targets in Syria as part of its increasingly open assault on Iran’s presence in the country, shaking the night sky over Damascus with an hour of loud explosions in a second consecutive night...

China’s economy grew 6.6% in 2018, its slowest pace in almost 30 years, confirming a slowdown in the world’s second largest economy that could threaten global growth. After years of breakneck expansion, the world’s second largest...

The growing concentration of the world’s wealth has been highlighted by a report showing that the 26 richest billionaires own as many assets as the 3.8 billion people who make up the poorest half of the...

A full week after Bosnia’s Serb-dominated entity of Republika Srpska celebrated its disputed January 9 ‘statehood day’, the fallout has not abated. While Bosnian Serbs appear to defend the celebration more as a matter of principle...