The Chaos Computer Club says its members voted overwhelmingly in favor of the move late Sunday.
BERLIN — A German hacking group says it is offering honorary membership to NSA leaker Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning, a U.S. soldier convicted of providing classified documents to WikiLeaks. The Chaos Computer Club says its members voted overwhelmingly in favor of the move late Sunday. Spokeswoman Constanze Kurz said Monday that members
The government’s point man on eradicating illegal mining, Daniel Urresti, says the real criminals aren’t the miners, but an estimated 50 people they work for, who own the illegal machinery and buy the gold.
LA PAMPA, Peru — They sweat through 28-hour shifts in the malarial jungle of the Madre de Dios region of southeastern Peru, braving the perils of collapsing earth and limb-crushing machinery to come up with a few grams of gold. Most illegal miners hail from impoverished highlands communities and even here barely earn subsistence wages. They chew
The price of building or refurbishing the 12 arenas alone has nearly quadrupled from initial estimates, helping make Brazil’s World Cup the priciest yet.
BRASILIA, Brazil — The cost of building Brasilia's World Cup stadium has nearly tripled to $900 million in public funds, largely due to allegedly fraudulent billing, government auditors say. The spike in costs has made it the world's second-most expensive soccer arena, even though the city has no major professional team. Mane
There was no immediate response from the Kremlin to Monday’s statement issued by one of the insurgent leaders, Denish Pushilin. But the Kremlin suggested earlier it had no intention of immediately annexing the two regions.
DONETSK, Ukraine — Pro-Russian insurgents in Ukraine's Donetsk region declared independence Monday and asked to join Russia — a day after holding a hastily arranged vote on separatism that Ukraine's interim government and the West have declared a sham. Organizers said about 90 percent of those who cast ballots Sunday in Donetsk and the
Norway’s King Harald, who plays a ceremonial role and is not part of the government, welcomed Peres to the royal palace on Monday as police dispersed demonstrators outside. More protests were planned by 24 organizations.
STAVANGER, Norway — Israeli President Shimon Peres was met by political anger and protests over his country's policies in the occupied territories during a visit to Norway Monday. The 90-year-old Peres, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994 for his role in trying to bring Israel and the Palestinians together in Norwegian-mediated
Delegates at a U.N. Human Rights Council panel reviewing Qatar’s record on Wednesday repeatedly raised concerns about exploitation of workers in construction and domestic households.
GENEVA — Qatar has been urged at the United Nations to abolish the sponsorship system tying migrant workers to employers. Delegates at a U.N. Human Rights Council panel reviewing Qatar's record on Wednesday repeatedly raised concerns about exploitation of workers in construction and domestic households. Several of 84 states speaking in the
“After we had a kid in 2009, I thought, ‘This is not happening again,'” says Strumwasser, 41, adding, “I never really felt comfortable about jobs, how solid they can be.”
NEW YORK — Nancy Strumwasser, a high school teacher from Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, always thought she'd have two children. But the layoffs that swept over the U.S. economy around the time her son was born six years ago helped change her mind. Though she and her husband, a market researcher, managed to keep their jobs, she fears they won't be so
