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Facebook Founder: We Made a Mistake in Trying to Protect User Data

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said in a rare television interview Wednesday that Facebook clearly made a mistake in its part in an illegal data collection scandal.

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Russia's Top Election Official Blasts US Accounts of Restricted Poll Monitoring

Russia's top election official has lashed out at U.S. State Department criticism that in the recent presidential election, Russia's Central Election Commission (CEC) denied observer status to 4,500 monitors linked to anti-corruption crusader Alexei...

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UN agency envoy Cate Blanchett warns of ‘race against time’ as Rohingya refugee camps brace for monsoon rains

As heavy rains and potential cyclones threaten more than one hundred thousand Rohingya refugees living in congested settlements in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar, United Nations refugee agency envoy Cate Blanchett is urging increased international support...

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To cultivate art and mind is also to cultivate peace, UNESCO chief says on World Poetry Day

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Children reading a panegyric during a festival in Timbuktu, Mali.

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