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April 4th, 2018 - 12:46 GMT

After Cambridge Analytica, Do You Trust Facebook to Police the News?

Facebook is under fire for dissemination of allegedly wrongful news and information. That is why it is employing "fact-checkers" in different countries but will that do?

RAQ, Baghdad : An Iraqi worker cleans the pavement on August 11, 2013 on the scene of a car bomb attack that occured the day before in the northern Baghdad neighbourhood of Shaab. AFP PHOTO ALI AL-SAADI

August 11th, 2013 - 07:33 GMT

Iraqi attackers branded "enemies of Islam"

Tunisians chant slogans in front of the National Constituent Assembly on August 6, 2013 in Tunis. (AFP)

August 7th, 2013 - 08:48 GMT

Suspension of Tunisian Assembly labelled 'a coup'

A protester injured during a demonstration on August 2, 2013 in Rabat-Morocco on the release of a Spanish pedophile (AFP/FADEL SENNA)

August 4th, 2013 - 07:18 GMT

Moroccan demonstrations to continue over pardoned pedophile

UN soldiers examine the Israeli-Syrian border on August (Shutterstock/ChameleonsEye)

July 31st, 2013 - 09:16 GMT

Filipino troops not leaving Golan Heights

A handout image allegedly shows the Khaled bin Walid mosque, whose mausoleum has been partially destroyed in the al-Khalidiyah neighborhood of the central Syrian city of Homs. (AFP/HO/SHAAM NEWS NETWORK)

July 27th, 2013 - 07:17 GMT

UN reaches agreement with Syria on chemical weapons

TUNISIA, Tunis : An ambulance, carrying the body of Tunisian opposition politician Mohamed Brahmi, drives to the Charles Nicile Hospital in Tunis before an autopsy after Brahmi was gunned down in front of his home on July 25, 2013. AFP PHOTO / FETHI BELAID

July 26th, 2013 - 12:18 GMT

Salafist behind Tunisian Opposition Leader's murder

A Syrian rebel tries on a gas mask seized from a Syrian army factory in the northwestern province of Idlib (AFP/DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS

July 21st, 2013 - 07:18 GMT

Syrian Kurds claim to have captured Islamist commander

Rebel fighters look at the pro-government forces' positions through a window as they hold a position in an empty room in the Salaheddine district of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, on July 9, 2013. (Source: AFP/JM LOPEZ)

July 16th, 2013 - 06:15 GMT

U.S. demands crackdown on Iranian arms in Syria

A poster of Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi is seen during a pro-Morsi demonstration on July 1, 2013 in Istanbul (Ozan Kose / AFP)

July 2nd, 2013 - 08:44 GMT

Morsi fight-back, President rejects army ultimatum

US Secretary of State John Kerry (L) speaks with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas during a meeting in the Jordanian capital Amman on June 28, 2013. Kerry held a second day of talks aimed at reviving moribund Middle East peace negotiations, sounding out Abbas after talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem that went on into the night. (Source: AFP/POOL/JACQUELYN MARTIN)

June 29th, 2013 - 08:52 GMT

Kerry rushes between Palestinians and Israelis to jumpstart negotiations

An angry mob beating in a Shiite village in Zawya Abu Muslam. Four were confirmed dead, but police did manage to save an additional 46. A closer look at the killings reveal the political strife in Egypt. (Source:Hazem Barakat)

June 26th, 2013 - 07:23 GMT

Egypt Shiite killings add sectarian strife to a country on June 30 tenterhooks

Cameron is hosting Obama, Putin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta.. (AFP)

June 18th, 2013 - 01:22 GMT

G8 seek Syria consensus amid rumors of deadlock