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Palmer Luckey, the man who developed arguably one of the first true virtual-reality headsets, the Oculus Rift, has left Facebook. The social network giant bought the company that Luckey started…
South African president Jacob Zuma has finally fired the much respected finance minister and shuffled 20 ministers and deputy ministers into new roles. In a statement around midnight local time…
Former South Korean president Park Geun-hye was arrested today (March 31), the third Korean president to be jailed. A court in Seoul approved Park’s arrest warrant after a full day…
FEBRUARY 2019 — “It sounds like a Frederick Forsyth novel.” The Western intelligence alliance that had held firm since the end of World War II was finally shattered this month…
The White House has signed off on a Pentagon proposal to allow the head of the U.S. Africa Command to launch an offensive campaign against the al-Shabab militant group in…
Each year, usually in October, the staff of the Central European University Press meet with its advisory board, of which I’m a member, in an elegant circular room just off…
In the 1990s, Mark Feygin was a member of Russia’s Duma. Today, he’s doing his part to unsettle the Russian government, one high-profile legal case at a time. Feygin, a…
Bowing to outside pressure, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is set to attend his first meeting with NATO’s foreign ministers on Friday. But that was not his initial plan. Scheduling…
U.S. President Donald Trump’s choice of two International Monetary Fund skeptics for top jobs at the Treasury Department could spell trouble for the European Union’s effort to keep Greece’s bailout…
Late Wednesday evening, Venezuela’s Supreme Court effectively took over its Congress. The court contends that legislators are operating extrajudicially and says it will assume all of Congress’s functions. But the…
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