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Do you trust Facebook? /Al Bawaba

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?

Obama said U.S. military action against Syria carries the risk of inadvertently hitting a chemical weapons site on Monday. He also expressed skepticism over whether setting a no-fly zone or waging a major military offensive against Damascus would save lives or change balance of power on the battlefield.

June 18th, 2013 - 07:00 GMT

Obama plays the chemical weapons card, talks no-fly zone

A Libyan soldier wounded from overnight clashes rests in his hospital bed on Saturday in Benghazi. AFP image

June 15th, 2013 - 08:02 GMT

Clashes in Benghazi leave at least six soldiers dead

Protestors clash with Turkish riot policemen on Taksim square on June 11 (Bulent Kilic / AFP)

June 12th, 2013 - 07:54 GMT

Tension in Taksim Square after a night of chaos

There were no clashes between protesters and riot police in Turkey's Takism Square on Tuesday, June 11, 2013.

June 11th, 2013 - 05:40 GMT

Turkey protest: Armed riot police enter Taksim Square

Afghan security forces stand guard at the site of a suicide attack near Kabul military airport in Kabul on Monday. AFP photo

June 10th, 2013 - 09:23 GMT

Seven Taliban militants killed after Kabul airport assault

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks duirng the American Jewish Community Global Forum at the Grand Hyatt Hotel June 3, 2013 in Washington, DC (Mark Wilson/ AFP)

June 4th, 2013 - 09:22 GMT

Kerry warns time is running out for Mideast peace process

A 22-year-old man died from a gunshot wound following a protest in Turkey on Tuesday.

June 4th, 2013 - 06:41 GMT

Turkey protest leaves one man dead

Al Bawaba

June 3rd, 2013 - 08:53 GMT

Mossad busted? Iran says network planning to disrupt elections

Police officers gather at the site of the stabbing, in Paris. AFP Image.

May 29th, 2013 - 07:48 GMT

'Radical Muslim' arrested in France over Paris soldier stabbing

United Kingdom Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs William Hague speaks with Luxembourg Foreign Affairs minister Jean Asselborn and Austrian Foreign minister Michael Spindelegger prior to a Foreign Affairs Council on May 27 (AFP/ George Gobet)

May 27th, 2013 - 11:23 GMT

EU divided over Syria: decision on arms embargo due this week

A framed photograph of Drummer Lee Rigby lies among flowers and tributes in Woolwich. AFP Photo

May 26th, 2013 - 07:28 GMT

Three arrests made over London soldier's beheading

British Foreign Secretary William Hague waves during a press conference in Amman on May 22 (AFP)

May 22nd, 2013 - 12:06 GMT

"Iran and Hezbollah propping up Syria," UK Foreign Secretary William Hague