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Facebook Shareholders Ask Company Leaders for More Accountability

VOA News/Michelle Quinn MENLO PARK, CALIFORNIA — Outside Facebook’s annual shareholders meeting Thursday, a lone protester paced on the sidewalk, carrying a U.S. flag and a sign that read «Zuckerberg destroys shareholder value.» Above, a small plane pulled a banner that read «You Broke Democracy.» Inside, Facebook shareholders offered both praise and criticism of the company’s […]Load more...

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UN Threatens South Sudan With Sanctions

VOA News/Ken Schwartz The U.N. Security Council is giving South Sudan one month to stop fighting and sign a peace deal or face an arms embargo and sanctions. The council passed a U.S.-sponsored resolution Thursday with the minimum nine votes needed for approval. Six members abstained. The resolution calls on Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to report […]Load more...

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US Boasts ‘Taking Down Small Islands’ Not a Problem

PENTAGON — China’s militarization of man-made islands in the South China Sea will not scare off the United States, which is promising to continue carrying out so-called freedom-of-navigation exercises despite the rising threat. “I would just say that the United States military’s had a lot of experience in the Western Pacific taking down small islands,” Marine […]Load more...

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National Security Division Focuses on Combating Cyberthreats

The U.S. Justice Department’s National Security Division, created in response to the September 11, 2001, terror attacks, is increasingly focused on an emergent menace: cyberthreats posed by foreign countries, from Russia to China, the division head said Thursday. «In the past years, [the division’s mission] has come increasingly to include a focus on cyber as […]Load more...

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US Slaps Tariffs on Steel, Aluminum from EU, Canada, Mexico

VOA News/Steve Herman WHITE HOUSE — The United States is escalating trans-Atlantic and North American trade tensions, imposing a 25 percent tariff on steel imports and a 10 percent tariff on aluminum imports from the European Union, Canada and Mexico beginning on Friday. The U.S. also negotiated quotas or volume limits on other countries, such as […]Load more...

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Top N. Korean Official Heading to US for Talks on

  Steve Herman WHITE HOUSE — U.S. President Donald Trump has confirmed a top North Korean official is to visit New York for talks related to a planned summit between Trump and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un. «Kim Young Chol, the Vice Chairman of North Korea, heading now to New York,» Trump wrote Tuesday on […]Load more...

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Maryland Town Again Hit by Devastating Flood

VOA News Residents of Ellicott City, in the eastern U.S. state of Maryland, are surveying the damage from flash flooding Sunday that raged down the town’s main street. It’s a deja vu for the historic town as it is the second time in as many years that an intense rainstorm triggered catastrophic flooding in it. […]Load more...