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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The U.N. General Assembly condemned Israel on Wednesday for excessive use of force against Palestinian civilians and asked U.N. chief Antonio Guterres to recommend an “international protection mechanism” for occupied Palestinian territory. The General Assembly...

I’m often on the receiving end of the Trumpentariat’s criticisms of Never Trump conservatives. Don’t I get it? Don’t I love how Trump is achieving the impossible, and soaring to heights to which no other president could aspire? Haven’t I gotten over the election yet? When, oh when, … Read...

A top US intelligence official warned football fans travelling to Russia for the World Cup that their phones and computers could be hacked by Moscow’s cyber spies. William Evanina, Director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, said that in Russia, even people who believe...

A jubilant-sounding President Donald Trump declared Wednesday that his “deal” with Kim Jong Un has ended the North Korean nuclear threat, as his top diplomat said he hoped to see “major disarmament” of the country by 2020. Despite the lack of detail, or binding terms in the joint statement...

Right now is a nice time to be Canadian. Brought up in Canada, as I was, and married to a woman so Canadian that she is both Winnipeg Icelandic and Winnipeg Jewish (you would have to be a Canadian to grasp the full glory of that combination), … Read more via The New Yorker –...

Yahoo’s UK arm has been fined £250,000 ($335,000) by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) over a data breach affecting more than 500 million users which took place in 2014. The incident was reported two years later. The firm said "state-sponsored" hackers had stolen personal …...

Fewer people are using Facebook to discover and discuss news, as messaging apps such as WhatsApp gain in popularity, a study has suggested. The seventh annual … Read more via BBC News – https://ift.tt/2l9hjQ0 Get more World News

Newly published private travel diaries have revealed Albert Einstein’s racist and xenophobic views. Written between October 1922 to March 1923, the diaries track his experiences in Asia … Read more via BBC News – https://ift.tt/2JA5lhj Get more World News