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Swiss direct democracy could put 5G networks on ice

GM can withstand massive losses from the ongoing employee strike-- but not for long.

Venezuela has released key opposition figure Edgar Zambrano from jail, where he had been held since a failed uprising in May, Attorney General Tarek William Saab announced Tuesday.Zambrano -- the vice president of the National Assembly -- had been held in a military prison since his dramatic arrest for supporting a failed April 30 uprising organized by opposition leader Juan Guaido.The government petitioned the Supreme Court to release Zambrano "following partial agreements reached by the Venezuelan government and sectors of the national opposition," Saab said in a statement.

For the first time in more than a decade, the New York Federal Reserve Bank on Tuesday pumped billions of dollars into financial markets to keep short-term interest rates in line with the Fed's target range.

The prospect of a quick recovery in Saudi crude production sent oil prices sharply lower

Taliban suicide bombers killed at least 48 people and wounded dozens more in two blasts Tuesday -- one at a campaign rally for the president and the other in Kabul -- with the insurgents warning of more violence ahead of elections.The first attack saw a motorcyclist detonate a suicide bomb at a checkpoint leading to a rally where President Ashraf Ghani was addressing supporters in Parwan province, just north of the capital, killing 26 and wounding 42.

London's Metropolitan Police said the initiative will see it provide Facebook footage of training by its forearms command unit

Aramco CEO Amin Nasser dismissed suggestions the energy giant had taken a reputational hit with the weekend strikes

The US Treasury Department imposed sanctions on 16 companies linked to an ally of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, seen here

En mars 2019 près de Cotulla au Texas, des travaux sur un oléoduc reliant le port de Corpus Christi au bassin d'Eagle Ford

Foreign organizations may have been exposed to the theft of secrets from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police National Intelligence Coordination Centre

Tropical storm warnings have been issued for coastal Texas, with flash flood warnings in Galveston and Houston.

The US Justice Department sued former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden in an attempt to block him from profiting from his new book

A report by the Wall Street Journal cited documents from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which said that the retail giant likely discriminated against 178 female employees on the basis of gender.

Saudi Arabia's Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman gives a press conference in the Red Sea city of Jeddah on September 17, 2019

The Washington Post is looking to share its ad tech platform with other publishers to counter the dominance of Google and Facebook in the sector

Nearly two dozen sites could be damaged by border patrol efforts to get 500 miles of wall built before the 2020 election.

Mazda is set to reveal its first EV at the upcoming Tokyo Motor Show. This is in line with plans for electrifying the rest of the lineup. There are not a lot of details which are known thus far other than it is going to be a new model.

Finance Minister Wopke Hoekstra, pictured in May 2019, announced that the Dutch government was loosening its purse strings to spend more on stimulating the economy

The finding reportedly concerns 178 women across 30 states

Did Maddox Jolie-Pitt make a bad choice by going to school abroad? With all the news surfacing about the possible challenges in college, were Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie wrong to ever let their son go?