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It’s an Auld Lang Syne of the times: For the first time, a police drone will be keeping watch over the New Year’s Eve celebration in New York’s Times Square. The unmanned eye-in-the-sky is the latest wrinkle in the New York City Police Department’s ever-evolving plan to keep revelers — and “Rockin’...
A judge in Chicago has dismissed a lawsuit that alleged that Google violated privacy of users by using facial recognition technology to scan their photos without their explicit consent. In the...
Brazil's business community will give far-right President-elect Jair Bolsonaro little in the way of a honeymoon as it presses him to make good on campaign promises to tame the country's bureaucracy and erase a yawning public deficit. ......
The mayor of Venice says Italy's new budget law will allow the lagoon city to charge all visitors for accessing the historic center, not just those spending the...
Bengaluru: A city hospital helped a woman athlete with thin uterus to conceive through IVF. Doctors performed a Platelets Rich Plasma (PRP) therapy, which made the athlete give birth to a healthy baby boy recently. After winning many state-level competitions, it was time for her to run at the...
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — The Latest on Congo’s presidential election (all times local): 4:55 p.m. The Oxfam aid organization says it is suspending its Ebola outbreak response work in Congo because of violent protests by people barred from voting in Sunday’s presidential election. The Oxfam...
According to a press release published on December 29, 2018, Huobi Group’s cryptocurrency mining arm, Huobi Pool is set to launch the company’s first crypto trading exchange in Q1 2019. Notably, the exchange will use EOS as the base currency, leveraging its distributed proof-of-stake (DPoS)...
Expect growing take-up in crypto throughout 2019 – and regulation may help more than hinder… A growing number of people are now openly predicting that 2019 will be the year of formal cryptocurrency regulations, with more and more governments and their treasury departments around the world taking a...
Andy Murray is determined to return to form and fitness in order to "go out on my own terms". The former world number one missed the majority of the 2018 season with ankle and hip ailments and revealed this week that the latter injury continues to...
Serena Williams has described the new changes to the ‘Special Ranking’ rule introduced by the WTA for 2019 as “great” and believes the move will encourage more players to take a break from the tour to have children then come back to resume their careers. Under the new rules,...
Andy Murray doesn't know how long his latest comeback can last, so he's planning on making the most of it. The 31-year-old Murray returned to competitive tennis for the first time since September and gradually warmed into it, taking the last four games in a 6-3, 6-4 win over Australian wildcard...
Team Sky duo Chris Froome and Geraint Thomas will miss the Giro d'Italia to ensure they are firing on all cylinders for the Tour de France. Froome completed a Grand Tour treble when he became the first Brit to win the Giro last year, but he will not be on the starting line in Bologna on May 11. The...
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BRASILIA: Right-wing nationalist Jair Bolsonaro, who has vowed to crack down on political corruption, violent crime and ignite a moribund economy with deregulation and fiscal discipline, will be sworn...
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BANGKOK: An elaborate three-day coronation ceremony for Thailand’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn will be held May 4 to 6, the palace announced Tuesday, nearly two and half years after the death of his...
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A van ploughed into pedestrians celebrating the New Year in central Tokyo, leaving nine people injured. The man driving the minivan has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder...
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France deployed an additional 147,000 security forces across the country in preparation for potential New Year's Eve mischief and unrest after protesters from the Yellow Vest movement announced a...
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Peruvian President Martín Vizcarra said the Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht should not be able to continue working in Peru after it "contaminated private activity" and admitting to bribing...
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Donald Trump's Defense Secretary Jim Mattis left a farewell letter to the armed forces and other defense employees on his last day this Monday calling on the troops to remain strong for United States...
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Colombia's foreign minister condemned an alleged plot to assassinate President Ivan Duque on Twitter this past weekend, with three Venezuelan citizens arrested after being found with a cache of...
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Jerusalem: Israel’s centre-left opposition dramatically split on Tuesday ahead of an April 9 election, with leader Avi Gabbay announcing he would no...
By Stanis Bujakera and Fiston Mahamba KINSHASA, Jan 1 (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo's government cut internet connections and SMS services across the...
Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen delivers a speech during the New Year press conference in Taipei, Taiwan, Jan. 1. Taiwan's leader said the people of the island...
Counter-terror police are continuing to question a man accused of stabbing three people at a railway terminal on New Year’s Eve. The suspect is being held...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said on Tuesday he is ready to meet President Donald Trump anytime to achieve their common goal of denuclearizing the Korean...
Taiwanese "yellow vest" protesters interrupted a New Year's Day ceremony A Taiwanese tax reform campaign whose activists dress in yellow ramped up its protests...
As the year that’s seen warnings of apocalyptic worldwide extinctions with effects lasting millions of years into the future finally draws to its close,...
In 2019, old conflicts in the Middle East will persist and new ones might erupt. ......
In the still of the last night of 2018, the silence of California Dems chilled the air and airwaves....
Into my mailbox the other day fell the last issue of The Weekly Standard. Not that you likely care,...
2018 was a tumultuous time in many ways, and community leaders are looking ahead to 2019. ......
"It's tough to beat us when we're playing like that." ......
Also: LeBron thinks LeBron is the greatest of all-time, and the future of outdoor hockey. ......
Sometimes, the good guys do win. Unfortunately, it takes money — often a great deal of it — and the...
