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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,...

Following US lead, Paraguay relocates embassy to J’lem

Paraguay officially relocated its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem on Monday, becoming the third country to do so after the U.S. and Guatemala.   An inauguration ceremony was attended by Paraguayan President Horacio Cartes and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu....