(BBC News) A US judge has ruled tech giant Google has a monopoly in online advertising technology.
The US Department of Justice, along with 17 US states, sued Google, arguing the tech giant was illegally dominating the technology that determines which advertisements should be placed online and where.
This is the second antitrust case Google has lost in a year, after it was ruled the company also had a monopoly on online search.
Google said it would appeal...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Astronomers have found the clearest evidence yet that life might exist beyond the solar system, from the atmosphere of a planet 124 light-years away from Earth, setting off rare excitement – tinged with caution – in the global scientific community.
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers led by astronomers at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom have found chemical signatures of two compounds that on Earth are only...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam has held talks in Damascus with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, in his first official visit to Syria, in an effort to recalibrate relations between the two nations, which have been strained for decades.
The diplomatic shuttle on Monday marks the highest-level Lebanese delegation visiting Syria since Beirut’s new government took office in February, following the ouster of former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad by opposition forces.
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(BBC News) At least 34 people have been killed and 117 injured, including 15 children, after a Russian attack on the centre of Sumy, according to Ukrainian authorities.
Two Iskander-variant ballistic missiles struck at around 10:15 local time (08:15 BST), both hitting the area around Sumy State University and its congress centre.
Images and videos of the aftermath show bloodied bodies scattered in the streets around the impact of the missiles. At least two children were...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) China has announced it would raise tariffs on all United States goods to 125%, deepening a trade war between the world’s two largest economies.
“The US’s imposition of abnormally high tariffs on China seriously violates international trade rules, basic economic laws and common sense,” Beijing’s State Council Tariff Commission said in a statement announcing the retaliatory tariffs on Friday.
The new levy will take effect on Saturday, the statement said.
China and the US...
(BBC News) For days, Donald Trump and his White House team had insisted they were fully committed to their decision to impose sweeping "reciprocal" tariffs on dozens of countries. They even derided a report on Tuesday that said the president was considering a 90-day pause – news that triggered a brief stock market surge.
But now that pause on higher tariff rates, with a few notable exceptions, is a reality. The reordering of the global...
(BBC News) Hundreds of rescue workers in the Dominican Republic continue to search for survivors of a roof collapse at a nightclub in the capital, Santo Domingo.
At least 124 people died and more than 150 were injured in the incident, which happened just before 01:00 local time (05:00 GMT) on Tuesday at the Jet Set club, officials said.
Head of Emergency Operations Juan Manuel Méndez estimated that his team had "24 to 36 hours left"...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Ukraine plans to send negotiators to the United States this week to discuss Washington’s latest proposed deal for access to its rare earth minerals deposits.
Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko announced on Monday that a team would visit the US “to move forward with negotiations” on the contentious deal, which President Donald Trump has made a condition for continued support for Ukraine as it battles Russia’s invasion.
Trump has claimed that the...
(BBC News) US President Donald Trump's advisers have defended sweeping tariffs on imports and vowed to stay the course, despite market turmoil and calls to avoid a trade war.
In a series of television interviews, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent played down recent stock market falls and Howard Lutnick, the commerce secretary, insisted reciprocal tariffs would be implemented as planned.
Bessent said there was "no reason" to expect a recession as a result of the turmoil. "This...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) At least 18 people, including nine children, have been killed in a Russian missile attack on a residential area of the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih, local authorities said, in one of Moscow’s deadliest strikes this year.
Friday’s attack on President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s hometown, which comes as United States President Donald Trump is pushing for a ceasefire in the war, damaged residential blocks and caused fires, Dnipropetrovsk Governor Serhiy Lysak...
