Silicon Valley Heads to Europe, Nervous About New Rules
LONDON — First came Sundar Pichai, the chief executive of Google’s parent company, Alphabet. Then Apple’s senior vice president for artificial intelligence, John Giannandrea, showed...
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Caroline Flack, Who Hosted ‘Love Island,’ Dies by Suicide at 40
Caroline Flack, a well-known television personality and former host of ITV’s “Love Island” and other shows in Britain, died on Saturday in London. She was...
He Observed a Protest. Now He Faces a Possible Life Sentence.
ISTANBUL — When the police banged on his door and took him away for questioning one dawn in November 2018, Yigit Aksakoglu assumed he would...
As Boeing Jets Sit Idle, Airbus Can’t Make Planes Fast Enough
PARIS — The troubles plaguing Boeing after the yearlong grounding of its 737 Max plane have created an unusual opening for its chief rival, Airbus,...
Syrian Attacks Draw Turkey Deeper Into Syrian War
ISTANBUL — Syrian government attacks on Turkish positions in northwest Syria are driving Turkey deeper into the country’s civil war, prompting it to send reinforcements...
A Store, a Chalet, an Unsealed Pipe: Coronavirus Hot Spots Flare Far From Wuhan
HONG KONG — An apartment building in Hong Kong, its units linked by pipes. A department store in the eastern Chinese city of Tianjin, where...
He Combs the Web for Russian Bots. That Makes Him a Target.
HADDINGTON, Scotland — In August 2017, Ben Nimmo was declared dead by 13,000 Russian bots on Twitter. “Our beloved friend and colleague Ben Nimmo passed...
Paul Farnes, Last R.A.F. Ace of Battle of Britain, Dies at 101
Paul Farnes, a Royal Air Force fighter pilot and the last surviving R.A.F. ace of the Battle of Britain, in which he shot down six...
Germans Unnerved by Political Turmoil That Echoes Nazi Era
BERLIN — When a popular state governor was shunted aside this week, it might have been just another local political wrangle. But not in Germany,...
Greta Beer, Who Fought Swiss Banks for Family Assets, Dies at 98
Greta Beer, a Romanian Jew whose decades-long search for her father’s Swiss bank account helped force banks in Switzerland to pay more than $1 billion...