Dutch emergency services hit by major telecoms outage
A widespread telecommunications outage hit large parts of the Netherlands on Monday, crippling emergency services and rendering police and other government services unreachable....
Biden: Congress should immediately make ‘dreamers’ citizens
Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, who is running for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020, called on Monday for making “Dreamer” immigrants brought to...
Democratic ‘climate change candidate’ outlines plan to wean U.S. off fossil fuels
The Democrat running as the “climate change candidate” in the 2020 presidential election laid out a strategy on Monday for weaning the United States off...
Paris clamps down on electric scooters as law of the jungle rules
If you’re spending time in Paris this summer and decide to check out one of the 20,000 electric scooters buzzing along its boulevards, you might...
Wall Street edges higher as tech offsets healthcare loss
U.S. stocks posted slight gains on Monday, as technology stocks more than offset a decline in healthcare sector, while investors awaited a high-stakes meeting between...
Sudan must end repression, give monitors access, U.N. rights boss says
Sudanese authorities must grant human rights monitors access to the country and end “repression” against protesters and restore the country’s Internet, U.N. human rights boss...
Merkel’s conservatives rule out cooperation with far-right AfD
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives on Monday ruled out any form of cooperation with Alternative for Germany (AfD), saying the far-right party’s anti-immigrant rhetoric was contributing...
U.S. records 33 new measles cases, mostly in New York State
Thirty-three new measles cases were recorded in the United States last week, most of them in New York, federal health officials said on Monday, bringing...
Global stocks mostly flat ahead of G20; dollar slips
Global equity markets traded mostly flat on Monday as investors awaited U.S.-China trade talks this week at the G20 summit, and the dollar fell to...
Supreme Court invalidates law banning foul language trademarks
The Supreme Court on Monday struck down a longstanding U.S. ban on trademarks on “immoral” or “scandalous” words and symbols, ruling in a case involving...