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Europe's best-selling newspaper, German tabloid "Bild" plans to replace a number of editorial positions with artificial intelligence as part of a €100m cost-cutting program, Britain's "Guardian" reported, citing emails sent to the paper's staff. The group will also reorganize its business with regional newspapers, which will lead to hundreds of redundancies in total.

From CNN to the Washington Post, US media are facing tough times, as a series of outlets have announced layoffs this winter amid fears of an economic downturn.

Leaders of the US Senate Intelligence Committee have called for an investigation into whether Chinese officials are getting access to data about U.S. users of video-snippet sharing sensation TikTok.    

In a letter to Federal Trade Commission (FTC) chairwoman Lina Khan, the senators urged her to scrutinize how well TikTok safeguards private data.   

It is an excerpt from a secret report that has now been published in the American media.
A report by the JASON Advisory Group, made up of top scientists in the United States for decades, concluded that in eight of the 21 incidents, the sound reported by diplomats was most likely from crickets.

Photos of a Roman Catholic priest in the Detroit area using a squirt gun to spray parishioners with holy water in an attempt to maintain social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic have gone viral.

Facebook users aged 65 plus and conservatives are more likely to share fake news on the platform than younger or more liberal counterparts, according to a new study published Wednesday, reports AFP. 

Bulgarian police have arrested a supposed Russian hacker at the request of US authorities on charges of committing advertising fraud of over $7 million.

The supposed hacker is named Alexander Zhukov, a Saint Petersburg native who's been living in Varna, Bulgaria, since 2010, according to Russian newspaper Kommersant, which first reported the arrest, reports ZDNet.

Major European capitals are opposed and the US used to be too - but things have changed under Trump, the article says.

"European officials are concerned the Trump administration's hands-off approach to diplomacy could risk destabilizing a tinderbox region in Southeast Europe," it continues.

As Athens seeks to defuse tensions with Moscow over its expulsion last week of Russian diplomats, the prime minister of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Zoran Zaev, brought the issue back to the fore on Monday, accusing Greek businessmen "sympathetic to the Russian cause" of paying large sums of money to his country's citizens to commit acts of violence ahead of the referendum on the

In an interview with Buzzfeed, the prime minister of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Zoran Zaev, claimed that his government has received multiple reports that "Greek businessmen" who are "sympathetic to the Russian cause" paid FYROM citizens to "commit acts of violence" ahead of a referendum scheduled for later this year on whether the Balkan country should change its name so it can