French soccer club Monaco has denied accusations it tried to bypass Financial Fair Play rules through a fake contract with a marketing agency
A knife-wielding man is holding hostages in a northern Italian post office, days after receiving a 19-year jail term for a Mafia conviction
CORRECTS: China, Greece, India, Italy, Turkey, South Korea, Taiwan, Japan get US sanctions waivers for Iran oil imports.
French authorities are investigating the death of a member of the prestigious Republican Guard who was found dead inside the prime minister's office building with their service weapon at their side
The Trump administration's tough new sanctions on Iran have taken effect, but eight major importers of Iranian oil are being spared from immediate penalties
Floyd Mayweather is planning on fighting Japanese kickboxer Tenshin Nasukawa on New Year's Eve in Saitama, north of Tokyo
Authorities say a 21-year-old driver was intoxicated when he struck and killed three Girl Scouts and a parent and critically injured a fourth girl in Wisconsin
Oklahoma oil and gas regulators have ordered the indefinite shutdown of a well after an earthquake struck nearby
Ludacris and Migos will represent Atlanta and hip-hop culture when they perform at the EA SPORTS BOWL days before the Super Bowl next year
A large group of Central American migrants has resumed its trek toward Mexico City, planning to join several hundreds who have already arrived in the Mexican capital in hopes of finding some way to reach the U.S. border
A governor in Cameroon's restive northwest region says armed men have kidnapped at least 78 students from a Presbyterian school in the Nkwen village
Cameroon governor says armed men kidnapped 78 students from a Presbyterian school in Nkwen village in restive northwest
The Seibu Lions have agreed to post pitcher Yusei Kikuchi, clearing the way for the 27-year-old left-hander to negotiate with teams in Major League Baseball
UN report says Earth's protective ozone layer is healing thanks to ban of ozone-depleting chemicals
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(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Tauhid Zaman, MIT Sloan School of Management(THE CONVERSATION) Nearly two-thirds of the social media bots with political activity on Twitter before the 2016 U.S. presidential election supported Donald Trump. But all those Trump bots were far less effective at shifting people’s opinions than the smaller proportion of bots backing Hillary Clinton. As my recent research shows, a small
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Rachael Garrett, Boston University(THE CONVERSATION) Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s new president, will make many decisions during his four-year term, from combating violence to stimulating a stagnant economy. Those decisions will have large impacts on Brazilians, who remain deeply divided over the controversial election of this far-right populist.But some of Bolsonaro’s decisions will
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