The Turkish government has entered damage control mode after the release this weekend of images that appear to show authorities dragging the body of a dead Kurdish man by the neck behind an armored vehicle.

The U.S. has concluded Moscow is intentionally targeting rebel groups in Syria backed by the CIA.

CBS News' David Martin reports from Qatar in the headquarters of the U.S. air campaign against ISIS

ATLANTA — The United States, Japan and 10 other Pacific basin nations on Monday agreed after years of negotiations to the largest regional trade accord in history, an economic pact envisioned as a bulwark against China’s power and a standard-setter for global commerce, worker rights and environmental protection.

As a condition of enrollment, Umpqua Community College requires students to adhere to a strict code of conduct. The school specifically lists possession of a firearm as a violation of the student code of conduct.

Washington D.C. — A Hillary Clinton staffer planted questions in a CBS 60 Minutes interview with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, according to email records released this week. At the time of the interview in early 2011, Assange had already leaked sensitive, embarrassing information from the State Department. The unclassified staff email to Clinton, released amid her ongoing email scandal, demonstrates not only that the former Secretary of State and her staff were out to discredit Assange, but that the government manipulates media and wields h

Adblock, which touts 40 million users, sold to a mystery buyer today and nobody will explain why.

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The United States is pulling spies from China as a result of a cyberattack that compromised the personal data of 21.5 million government workers.

Germany has translated the first 20 articles of the country's constitution, which outline basic rights like freedom of speech, into Arabic for refugees to help them integrate.

Abraham Ukbagabir removes two knives from the shelf of an Ikea in Vasteras, Sweden, moments before allegedly using the weapons to kill two people.

GABCIKOVO, Slovakia — The next act of the European refugee crisis will unfold in little places like this one, where hundreds of Syrian war refugees are coming to live in a town that just voted by overwhelming numbers to oppose their stay.

On Thursday, the organization’s Broadband Commission for Digital Development released a damning “world-wide wake-up call” on what it calls “cyber VAWG,” or violence against women and girls. The report concludes that online harassment is “a problem of pandemic proportion” — which, nbd, we’ve all heard before.
But the United Nations then goes on to propose radical, proactive policy changes for both governments and social networks, effectively projecting a whole new vision for how the Internet could work.

In terms of actual capacity to pay debt, the United States has the 2nd highest amount in the world. We compare debt to revenue in this data visualization.

"The international community should make it clear that we should take whatever steps necessary to give Ukraine the legal cover it needs to walk away from that debt…I don’t think Ukraine should be obligated to pay Russia back a dime,"

Staffordshire University apologises after counter-terrorism student Mohammed Umar Farooq was questioned under Prevent anti-extremism initiative

Mozilla launched Firefox 41 yesterday. Today, Adblock Plus confirmed the update “massively improves” the memory usage of its Firefox add-on.

A stampede during one of the last rituals of the Hajj season -- the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca -- has killed more than 700 people and injured 800 others in Saudi Arabia.

“At night we can hear them screaming, but we’re not allowed to do anything about it,” the Marine’s father, Gregory Buckley Sr., recalled his son telling him before he was shot to death at the base in 2012. He urged his son to tell his superiors. “My son said that his officers told him to look the other way because it’s their culture.”

JOB centres are rarely upbeat places. In Brazil, where they are often a last resort for those who lack the personal connections that lubricate much of life in the...

Over a thousand protesters blocked streets in Brussels. Uber accused taxi drivers of "trying to protect their monopoly".

One in five Syrians say Islamic State is a good thing, poll says

After years of refusing to build one, the social network is finally going to give us a way to express something other than a "Like."

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Sen. Bernie Sanders, whose liberal call to action has propelled his presidential campaign, is proposing new programs that would amount to the largest peacetime expansion of government in modern U.S. history.

Investing heavily in school computers and classroom technology does not improve pupils' performance, according to a global study from the OECD.

Firefox fans didn't want Mozilla to add ads to their favorite web browser, but more than a year after the idea was first suggested, "Suggested Tiles" have arrived.

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An argument over a Koran that erupted at a shelter in central Germany has led to violence in which 11 refugees and six police officers were injured.

Germany can cope with at least 500,000 asylum seekers a year for several years, Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel says.

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For the 3rd day in a row, crude oil prices are spiking as the short squeeze morphs into a war premium. Heberler reports that Saudi ground troops have entered Northern Yemen and seized control of two areas in the Saada province. WTI is now above $45...

The People's Liberation Army has sent troops to China's border with North Korea as escalating tensions on the Korean peninsula have pushed North and South to the brink of possible war.

The launch of the DF-41 road-mobile missile Aug. 6 was the fourth time the new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) has been test-fired in three years, and indicates that the weapon capable of hitting U.S. cities with nuclear warheads is nearing deployment.

Three months ago, Mr. Price, 31, announced he was setting a new minimum salary of $70,000 at his Seattle credit card processing firm, Gravity Payments, and slashing his own million-dollar pay package to do it. He wasn’t thinking about the current political clamor over low wages or the growing gap between rich and poor, he said. He was just thinking of the 120 people who worked for him and, let’s be honest, a bit of free publicity.

Changying Precision Technology Company in Dongguan city has set up an unmanned factory run almost entirely by robots. The factory has since seen fewer defects and a higher rate of production.

A three-year-old child from London is one of hundreds of young people in the capital who have been tipped as potential future radicals and extremists.

One of Spain's "ghost airports" — expensive projects that were virtually unused — received just one bid in a bankruptcy auction after costing some 1.1 billion euros ($1.2 billion) to build. The buyer's offer: 10,000 euros.

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The police detained 25 people, including four Germans, three Poles, two Frenchmen, one Albanian, Ukrainian, Dutchman and Australian. They will face a prosecutor on charges of involvement in riots, assaulting police officers and causing damage to public property.

IN dominating the debate over how to address the Greek crisis, Germany has shown that economic success brings political influence, which it wielded last weekend to brush away requests from France and Italy for more lenient treatment of their neighbor.

Russia is pushing its claims further into Georgia.

The International Monetary Fund has sent a strong signal that it may walk away from Greece’s new bailout programme, arguing that it will not be able to participate if European creditors do not offer Athens substantial debt relief. The move again

The closest Greece has come to leaving the eurozone was at around 6am on Monday morning, just as dawn was breaking over Brussels. Alexis Tsipras of Greece and Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, decided after 14 hours of anguished talks that they

MPs will not accept any new bailout deal for Greece, public broadcaster Yle says, meaning ministers’ hands are tied in crunch Brussels negotiations

A British vote to leave the European Union could spark a movement towards free
markets across the continent

The controls on Greece's banks will remain in place for an extended period of time, as debt negotiations continue.

Finance ministers are discussing latest Greek proposals after Alexis Tsipras receives backing from his MPs

In Latvia and Lithuania, pensioners and other poor people wonder why they are being asked to pay to bail out their far richer Greek counterparts

Trading in all symbols was halted on the New York Stock Exchange floor Wednesday due to an apparent technical issue.