Clean water nourishes the hearts of Angolan villagersOn August 5, 2010, the small village of Sifinbu in the Angolan province of Cabinda also bore witness to history. Before 9am, hundreds of people in the village had already gathered at the water collecting point, from the elderly woman with a bucket on her [More]2020-08-17
Chinese home appliance companies are moving into the fast laneIn recent years, with the continuous investment in product rd, intelligent manufacturing and brand construction, China's electronic home appliance industry has gradually acquired a strong manufacturing capacity and a complete industrial chain. In the[More]2019-12-16
Cutbacks in local news leave some communities in the darkWAYNESVILLE, Mo. (AP) — Five minutes late, Darrell Todd Maurina sweeps into a meeting room and plugs in his laptop computer. He places a Wi-Fi hotspot on the table and turns on a digital recorder. The earplug in his left ear is attached to a police scanne[More]2019-03-11
Nexstar (NXST) Q4 Earnings Down Y/Y, Political Revenues RiseNexstar Media Group NXST reported fourth-quarter 2018 earnings of $3.22 per share compared with $7.97 in the year-ago quarter. The year-ago quarter’s figure included a tax benefit of $292.3 million.The Zacks Consensus Estimate for fourth-quarter earnings [More]2019-02-28
Amazon to offer more than 1,000 apprenticeships in BritainLONDON (Reuters) - Online retailer Amazon will create more than 1,000 apprenticeship roles in Britain over the next two years, it said on Tuesday, indicating the country's imminent departure from the European Union is not deterring it from invest[More]2019-02-26
Iran frees French businesswoman held since OctoberDUBAI (Reuters) - Iran has released a French citizen arrested for entering the country illegally after other charges were dropped, the state news agency IRNA reported on Sunday, days after France's foreign minister discussed her case in parliamen[More]2019-02-25
Pennsylvania spending millions of anti-opioid grant funds on advertisingPITTSBURGH —In the past two years, Pennsylvania has gotten more than $50 million in federal grants to fight the opioid crisis. Action News Investigates has learned one of the largest chunks of that money went to advertising.Drug treatment centers througho[More]2019-02-23
Manafort Faces March 8 Sentencing for Virginia Fraud Convictions(Bloomberg) -- Paul Manafort will be sentenced on March 8 in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, where Special Counsel Robert Mueller has recommended he serve as much as a quarter century in prison for his convictions on tax- and bank-fraud charge[More]2019-02-22
Facebook "misled" Parliament on data misuse, U.K. committee saysThis article, Facebook misled Parliament on data misuse, U.K. committee says, originally appeared on CBSNews.comSenior managers at Facebook knew about a data breach associated with campaign consulting firm Cambridge Analytica before it was first reported[More]2019-02-21
Brexit Means Facebook Can Breathe Easy in BritainU.K. lawmakers investigating disinformation and fake news published their findings on Monday. Among the select committee’s recommendations was the insistence that the Competition and Markets Authority, Britain’s antitrust authority, conduct a “deep a[More]2019-02-19
Russia, Turkey, Iran hail US Syria withdrawal1 / 2Russian President Vladimir Putin (C) hosted Iran's Hassan Rouhani (L) and Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the southern city of Sochi for talks on SyriaRussian President Vladimir Putin (C) hosted Iran's Hassan Rouhani (L) and Turkey's[More]2019-02-16
German arrest is first big catch for Syria investigators(In this February 13 story corrects sixth paragraph to say Anwar R. was head of investigations at the branch, not head of whole branch)By Tom MilesGENEVA (Reuters) - Germany's arrest of a high-ranking Syrian suspected of crimes against humanity marks [More]2019-02-15