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FBI worker admits being agent of China for ‘financial benefit’
- US
- August 2, 2016, 11:26
A longtime employee of the FBI has pleaded guilty to acting as an agent of the Chinese government, US authorities say. The government charged that th(...)

Ruling against data transfer regime may cost Europe €143bn a year, says Facebook
- Technology
- July 7, 2016, 13:27
A draft finding by the Irish Data Protection Commissioner that existing EU-US data transfer channels are invalid could, if upheld by the European cour(...)

Facebook executive jailed in Brazil as court seeks WhatsApp data
- Technology
- March 2, 2016, 10:51
Brazilian police have arrested a senior Facebook executive as a dispute escalated over a court’s demand that the company provide data from its WhatsAp(...)

Images released by US military depict Bush-era detainee abuse
- US
- February 6, 2016, 13:34
Bruises, reddened marks and bandaged body parts featured in nearly 200 images of US detainee abuse that the Pentagon was forced to release on Friday, (...)

Noel Whelan: Migrants revitalise and renew us
- Opinion
- December 18, 2015, 01:07
On Wednesday US president Barack Obama altered his schedule to represent the United States government at a naturalisation ceremony in Washington. His (...)

Facebook and other tech giants expand internet access in Africa
- Business
- August 3, 2015, 01:10
Nearly two years ago, Facebook’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, announced an ambitious effort to connect the world’s poorest people to the internet(...)

Obama’s Ethiopia visit promises little for democracy
- Africa
- July 27, 2015, 12:19
When a young Ethiopian journalist, Simegnish Mengesha, got the chance to meet US president Barack Obama in May, a comment from a high-ranking US offic(...)

Obama apologises for drone strike killing of two aid workers
- US
- April 23, 2015, 16:51
US president Barack Obama expressed his “deepest apologies” on behalf of his government over the killing of two aid workers, an American and an Itali(...)

Microsoft fights US request for Irish-held data
- Technology
- August 1, 2014, 01:00
It is illegal under Irish law for Microsoft to hand over information stored in Ireland to the US government without an Irish judge’s approval, former (...)

The United States government has said that it is preparing to send a team to help the Nigerian government find almost 300 girls kidnapped from their s(...)