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Activist groups launch campaign to break up Facebook

A coalition of activist groups on Monday announced a campaign to break up Facebook, arguing that the huge social network "has too much power over our lives and democracy." The groups created a website, and a Facebook page, to garner support for a petition to the US Federal Trade...

U.S. toughens stance on Iran, lists sweeping demands

The United States Monday demanded Iran make sweeping changes – from dropping its nuclear program to pulling out of the Syrian civil war – or face severe economic sanctions as U.S. President’s Donald Trump’s administration hardened its approach to Tehran. Iran dismissed...

UK committee warns gov't of Russian 'money-laundering'

Dozens of Palestinian protesters on Monday threw eggs and shoes at members of a U.S. delegation in the city of Bethlehem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank to protest the recent relocation of the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem. According to an Anadolu Agency correspondent at the scene,...