Mar 20 EU fines Google $1.7 billion for restricting competition in online advertising By Associated Press The European Commission found that Google breached EU antitrust rules by preventing other websites from using rival advertising programs. Continue reading
Mar 20 Cyclone Idai’s death toll rises above 300 in southern Africa By Farai Mutsaka, Associated Press Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi are mourning the loss of family, friends and neighbors after experiencing one of the most destructive storms in decades. Continue reading
Mar 19 Watch 2:27 Cyclone leaves Mozambique desperate and submerged A tropical cyclone tore through Mozambique on Friday, triggering mass floods and leaving immense destruction in its wake. More than 200 deaths have been attributed to the storm so far. Amid flattened and submerged buildings, aid workers struggle to reach… Continue watching
Mar 19 Watch 4:58 News Wrap: Midwest fears additional flooding from snowmelt In our news wrap Tuesday, flooding in the Midwest has claimed three lives and caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage. Scores of cities and counties have declared emergencies as the Missouri and Platte Rivers flow beyond their banks. Continue watching
Mar 19 Watch 4:17 How Trump and Brazil’s Bolsonaro align, both personally and politically At the White House on Tuesday, President Trump welcomed Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, in the latter’s first bilateral foreign visit. The two leaders share many similar views, as they reiterated at a press conference, and Bolsonaro represents Brazil’s first pro-U.S. Continue watching
Mar 19 Families gather for burials of New Zealand attack victims By Nick Perry, Juliet Williams, Kristen Gelineau, Associated Press Relatives of those killed had been anxiously awaiting word on when they could bury their loved ones. New Zealand Police Commissioner Mike Bush said police have now formally identified and released the remains of 21 of those killed. Continue reading
Mar 19 Watch 2:16 As caliphate collapses, new ISIS threats emerge in Syria After nearly five years of fighting, a U.S.-led coalition has almost completely destroyed what's known as the territorial caliphate, the Islamic pseudo-state created in Iraq and Syria by ISIS--but that doesn’t mean the end of the terror group. Amna Nawaz… Continue watching
Mar 19 Watch 9:25 Silenced at ‘the university of whispers,’ an Assad prison survivor can now tell his story By Malcolm Brabant Syrian teen Omar Alshogre was arrested and jailed for participating in a protest. He survived three years of torture in a compound referred to as “the university of whispers” because its prisoners were forbidden to speak. After fleeing to Turkey… Continue watching
Mar 19 Pope declined French cardinal’s resignation after sex abuse cover-up conviction By Nicole Winfield, Associated Press The decision greatly disappointed abuse survivors, given that French Cardinal Philippe Barbarin had traveled to the Vatican on Monday to present his resignation following the March 7 verdict and six-month suspended sentence he received. Continue reading
Mar 19 Watch 7:32 Former deputy secretary of state on ‘a deep hole’ for American diplomacy William Burns, former deputy secretary of state and ambassador to Russia, may have spent more time with Vladimir Putin than other American diplomat. In his book, “The Back Channel,” Burns discusses how a “sense of grievance” underlies Putin's interactions with… Continue watching