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Former Twitter manager Ahmad Abouammo was yesterday sentenced to 3.5 years in prison for spying for Saudi Arabia. He was proven to have shared Twitter users' data, potentially exposing them to persecution.more

Twitter teams "created blacklists, prevented unwanted tweets from appearing and actively restricted the visibility of entire accounts and even topics gaining popularity - all in secret, without informing users" - according to internal correspondence from Twitter employees, which Elon Musk shared with journalists. Musk also revealed the backstory behind the removal of Trump's Twitter account.more

US military authorities are correcting their earlier assessments of the likelihood of Ukrainian military operations over the winter; Washington's announcements in this regard are becoming increasingly optimistic, the US Institute for the Study of War (ISW) highlighted in a recent analysis.more

Libyan citizen Abu Agila Masud, suspected of constructing the explosive device that exploded on a US passenger plane over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in 1988, is in custody in the United States, the BBC reported to the authorities in Edinburgh.more

A federal appeals court has blocked a requirement by President Joe Biden's administration that Catholic doctors provide medical services to transgender people. He argued that it was against their conscience, Fox News reported.more

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has again recommended the wearing of masks in New York, Los Angeles, and wherever Covid-19 cases are increasing. 13.7 percent of Americans live in communities affected by high levels of infection.more

The House of Representatives yesterday passed a bill codifying the recognition of same-sex and racially mixed marriages in US law. The act was intended to ensure that such marriages would continue to be recognized regardless of any future Supreme Court rulings.more

Hundreds of journalists and other staff at The New York Times went on a 24-hour strike today after failed negotiations with the publisher over "fair" terms of employment.more

We will defend every square metre of territory of NATO countries, including Poland. You are safe, I promise you that," US Ambassador to Poland Mark Brzezinski announced today.more

After 53 years and more than 1,570 aircraft built, the last Boeing 747, known as a jumbo jet, rolled off the assembly line of a factory in the US state of Washington yesterday. The machine will be used for freight transport.more

Already around 2035, China is expected to overtake the United States, and India has a chance to catch up with the American economy by 2075. Countries such as Nigeria, Pakistan and Egypt may become the largest economies in the world, economists from Goldman Sachs have estimated.more

Anti-Semitic incidents rose 125 percent in five New York City boroughs in November compared with the previous year, the Jerusalem Post reported, citing NYPD data.more

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has appealed to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg against the British government's decision to extradite him to the United States, Reuters reported. "We confirm that the application has been received," the ECtHR said in a statement.more

The report by Cushman & Wakefield, which analyzes the market in terms of rents in commercial real estate, shows that New York's 5th Avenue is again the most expensive shopping district in the world.more

Fighters of the Free Syrian Army, which opposes the Syrian regime, carried out an operation in which the leader of the so-called Islamic State, Abu al-Hasan al-Hashimi al-Quraishi, was killed, the United States Central Command (CENTCOM) reported. The jihadist was supposed to die in October.more

US President Joe Biden, his wife Jill and rapper LL Cool J attended the festive lighting of the Christmas tree in front of the White House. Also present at the ceremony were Shania Twain and Gloria Estefan.more

Less than 50 km north of Washington DC, a single-engine Mooney M20J aircraft became entangled in high-voltage power lines yesterday. Two passengers were rescued and taken to hospital, both suffering hypothermia and serious injuries, the Reuters news agency reported today after the local fire service.more

The West thought that after the collapse of the USSR, war with artillery and tanks in Europe would never happen again, hence it reduced its stockpiles of weapons. However, Russia's aggression against Ukraine has shown that this was a mistake, the ''New York Times'' reports.more

According to the latest available data from 2019, at that time, six million Americans carried firearms in public every day. This was twice as much as in 2015.more

Officials in the administration of President Joe Biden have assessed that before a possible nuclear confrontation with NATO, Putin may first use chemical weapons there, if his troops continue to suffer defeats in Ukraine, Politico reported yesterday.more

While scanning one traveller's hand luggage at New York's JFK Airport, a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officer spotted a cat inside. Regulations do not allow animals to be transported in this way.more

Russian missile fire into Ukraine shows that the Kremlin is willing to increase the risk of a nuclear incident that could threaten the entire region, White House National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson announced yesterday.more

Seven people, including an attacker, were killed in a shooting that occurred Tuesday night into Wednesday at a Walmart chain supermarket in Chesapeake, Virgina, in the eastern part of the US, authorities in that city tweeted after local police.more

Charging an electric car while driving will soon cease to be a futuristic vision. The first two sections of the road, which will inductively charge the batteries of cars passing it, are to be launched in American Detroit by the end of 2023. It will be the first wireless electric road system (ERS) in the US.more

Five people were killed and 18 injured in a shooting at a gay nightclub on Saturday night in Colorado Springs, Colorado, police said.more