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Facebook launches tool to let users control data flow

 PARIS, FRANCE (AFP) -- Facebook, under pressure to ramp up privacy rules across its platform, said on Tuesday it was…

Huawei dismisses new suspension of ‘unjust’ US ban

BEIJING, China (AFP) -- Huawei on Tuesday dismissed Washington's three-month delay to a ban on US firms selling to the…

13 Chinese tourists killed as bus plunges into ravine in Laos

BANGKOK, Thailand (AFP) -- At least 13 Chinese tourists were killed and dozens injured when their bus skidded off the…

19 killed in Uganda fuel truck blast: police

KAMPALA, Uganda (AFP) -- Nineteen people died when a fuel truck barrelled into other vehicles in a busy town in…

N. Korea’s Kim supervised ‘new weapon’ test again: KCNA

SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un once again supervised a "new weapon" launch, state media…

China accused of using Twitter, Facebook against Hong Kong protests

by Glenn CHAPMAN SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) -- Twitter and Facebook said Monday they had uncovered a campaign by…

5,000 evacuated as Canary Islands wildfire rages

LOMO DEL PINO, Spain (AFP) -- A raging wildfire on the Spanish holiday island of Gran Canaria forced the evacuation…

Filipino, not Chinese, sailors kidnapped off Cameroon: document

DOUALA, Cameroon (AFP) -- Most of the sailors kidnapped off the Cameroon coast last week were Filipinos, not Chinese as…

Iran tanker departs after Gibraltar rejects US demand

GIBRALTAR, United Kingdom (AFP) -- The Iranian oil tanker at the center of a diplomatic dispute has departed from Gibraltar…

‘Tiananmen Square’ crackdown in Hong Kong would harm trade deal: Trump

by Chris STEIN WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- US President Donald Trump on Sunday warned China that carrying out a…

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