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Air China’s Beijing-Pyongyang resumption stirs economic hopes inside North Korea

North Korea resumed its first direct Air China flights from Beijing in six years on March 30, and the news has spread quickly inside the country, stirring genuine excitement...

North Korea fuel prices surge 20% as Iran war squeezes oil supply

North Korea’s market prices have surged for the second consecutive month, with fuel costs...

North Korea triples border enforcement as Kim Jong Un ideology campaign intensifies

A wave of mandatory study sessions centered on “Kim Jong Un Thought” has swept...

North Korea orders campaign to erase South Korea from youth consciousness

North Korea has ordered a sweeping ideological campaign to erase South Korea from the...

Twitter Suffers Widespread Outage

Twitter appeared to be working again after a widespread outage earlier Thursday. The site Downdetector.com, which logs service outages, reported it was the first such...

5 industries that need to watch foreign subsidies rules

Chinese state-owned firms aren’t the only companies that need to watch out for new European Union rules on foreign subsidies. The EU’s newest trade defense...

Uber Files embolden the left on tougher platform work bill

Uber’s past behavior could haunt the future of the European Union’s platform work reforms. A string of recent reports — the so-called Uber Files —...

EU watchdog: Failure to find VDL-Pfizer texts is ‘wake-up call”

The EU’s institutional watchdog again chastised the European Commission Thursday for refusing to provide or even seriously search for text messages that President Ursula...

EU readies Amazon antitrust settlement

The European Commission provisionally approved an antitrust settlement with Amazon Thursday, a deal set to end two of the bloc’s most high-profile digital competition...

Britain’s Online Safety Bill set to be delayed

LONDON — Progress on Britain’s proposed new content regulation law is expected to be delayed until the fall, amid the fallout from Boris Johnson’s...

Governments Weigh Benefits, Climate Threat of Crypto Mining

Cryptocurrencies use an enormous amount of energy, and as the industry grows rapidly, so do concerns about its impact on the climate. Matt Dibble...

Polish minister wants Russian ambassadors kicked off social media to fight disinformation

To ramp up the fight against Kremlin-backed disinformation, social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook should ban Russian ambassadors from their platforms, a Polish...

‘Not up to scratch’: Uber Files puts spotlight on weak enforcement of EU ethics rules

No one’s standing guard at the EU’s revolving door. Neelie Kroes, an ex-EU digital chief known for her pro-Uber stance while in office, was first...

Twitter Sues to Force Musk to Complete His $44B Acquisition

Twitter sued Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Tuesday to force him to complete the $44 billion acquisition of the social media company.  Musk and Twitter...

Twitter sues Elon Musk for pulling out of $44B deal to buy company

Making it official, Twitter sued Elon Musk on Tuesday for pulling out of the $44 billion dollar deal to buy the social media platform. The...

EU countries plan Bond-style bunker to stop foreign spies

An EU plan to set up a secure bunker to protect high-level discussions from spies has outsiders wondering: Why only now? A super-secure room...

NASA to Release Images from Most Powerful Space Telescope

The U.S. space agency is set to release the full set of the first full-color images from the James Webb Space Telescope on Tuesday,...

Frustrated by Gun Deaths, Entrepreneurs Turn to Technology

As the U.S. reels from a surge of recent mass shootings, some technologists are focusing on how to prevent casualties. VOA’s Julie Taboh spoke...

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