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North Korea screens young single women for factory jobs in China

North Korea has begun final screening of unmarried female workers in their 20s bound for jobs in China, and they could start work at Chinese factories as early as...

Smuggling ban drives North Korean units to cheap Chinese work

North Korea’s foreign currency-earning units are scrambling for low-paying contract manufacturing work from China...

Satellite imagery maps 23 towers at North Korea’s Voice of Korea transmitter site

Satellite imagery of a shortwave radio transmitter site in Hyangsan county, Jagang province, shows...

Why is North Korea opening bulgogi restaurants when meat is so scarce?

North Korea has opened a string of state-run bulgogi restaurants across the country since...

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...

Looming Musk-Twitter Legal Battle Hammers Company Shares

Shares of Twitter slid more than 6% in the first day of trading after billionaire Elon Musk said that he was abandoning his $44...

French left gets lucky with Macron’s Uber trip

PARIS — If Emmanuel Macron’s second term wasn’t challenging enough, he now has the “Uber Files” to contend with. Opposition parties on both the...

My Laptop Keeps Freezing And Not Responding to Windows 7

I have had my laptop for a while and it has been freezing up and not responding to anything. I have tried everything to...

Commission to send letter to former EU digital chief over Uber allegations

The European Commission will reach out to former Commission Vice President and digital agenda chief Neelie Kroes, following reports that she lobbied on behalf...

‘We’re just f—ing illegal’: Leaked documents show Uber thwarted police and secretly courted politicians

Uber consistently circumvented regulations, thwarted police and secretly courted lawmakers to pave the way for its questionable practices as it expanded into new cities...

Report: Uber Lobbied, Used ‘Stealth’ Tech to Block Scrutiny

As Uber aggressively pushed into markets around the world, the ride-sharing service lobbied political leaders to relax labor and taxi laws, used a "kill...

Elon Musk quits Twitter deal, roiling Trump world

Elon Musk officially terminated a $44 billion deal to buy Twitter on Friday, a move that would appear to dash the hopes of former...

Millions of Canadians Lose Mobile, Internet Services

Millions of Canadians found out Friday what it is like to live without access to the internet and mobile phone service. Rogers Communications, the country’s...

Twitter Claims It Is Removing 1 Million Spam Accounts Daily

Twitter said Thursday it removes more than 1 million spam and bot accounts every day. The removals come as Tesla founder Elon Musk, who is...

EU spyware inquiry fails to put Spain on list of fact-finding trips

European lawmakers are planning a series of fact-finding missions to EU member countries to investigate how spyware like Pegasus is used and potentially abused...

Europe faces Facebook blackout

Europeans risk seeing social media services Facebook and Instagram shut down this summer, as Ireland’s privacy regulator doubled down on its order to stop...

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