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The House of Commons publishes its report into fake news with some strong criticism of Facebook. from BBC News - Technology https://bbc.in/2XaBIWL via Online Shopping in Pakistan

UK intelligence chiefs reportedly conclude the Chinese tech giant Huawei can bid for telecoms projects. from BBC News - Technology https://bbc.in/2DNJ3mv via Online Shopping in Pakistan

The "sophisticated" activity follows an intrusion on parliamentary servers, PM Scott Morrison says. from BBC News - Technology https://bbc.in/2TV8MA7 via Online Shopping in Pakistan

When Quadriga's founder died he left behind a mystery: what happened to millions in cryptocurrency? from BBC News - Technology https://bbc.in/2SVQRMs via Online Shopping in Pakistan

Israel said its security cabinet on Sunday decided to withhold $138 million (122 million euros) in tax transfers to the Palestinian Authority over its payments to prisoners jailed for attacks on Israelis. A statement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said the withheld cash would be equal to that paid by the PA last year to "terrorists imprisoned in Israel, to their families and to released prisoners". Israel alleges the payments encourage further violence. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2BHAWaC via Latest News

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Latest on the defrocking of former U.S. cardinal Theodore McCarrick (all times local): from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2tr6WeK via Latest News

The US has supported India’s right to “self defence” against cross-border terrorism after an attack claimed by Pakistan-based militants killed at least 44 police officers in the disputed territory of Kashmir. In comments that will please Indian hawks but also raise fears that tensions between India and Pakistan could escalate yet further, US national security advisor John Bolton reportedly told his counterpart in Delhi, that America “offered all assistance to India” to bring the perpetrators of the attack to justice. Mr Bolton and Ajit Doval also “resolved to hold Pakistan to account for its obligations under UN resolutions”, India’s foreign ministry said in a statement. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2SCeRF4 via Latest News

Venezuela on Sunday expelled five visiting European lawmakers, an act which opposition leader Juan Guaido branded "irrational" as his showdown with President Nicolas Maduro over the arrival of international aid intensifies. The members of the European Parliament were being tossed out with no explanation, said Spanish MEP Esteban Gonzalez Pons, who led the group. "We are being expelled from Venezuela. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2V56VJ1 via Latest News

Kicking off his tour of South Asia and China with a far higher Pakistan investment than expected, the crown prince said the $20 billion figure represents only the start of an economic tie-up that would bring the historic Muslim allies even closer. "It’s big for phase 1, and definitely it will grow every month and every year, and it will be beneficial to both countries," said the crown prince. "We have been a brotherly country, a friendly country to Pakistan. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2DLXjw4 via Latest News

CHICAGO (AP) — The victims of an employee who started shooting after hearing he was being fired at a suburban Chicago industrial warehouse were co-workers that included a plant manager whose wife says he texted her "I love you, I've been shot at work," and an intern in his first day on the job. A look at the victims: from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2XbU21E via Latest News

Find out if banks, schools and the post office are open on President's day from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2N9KXC0 via Latest News

A police source tells USA TODAY that investigators are attempting to interview Jussie Smollett again about an attack on the "Empire" actor. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2IhYYyY via Latest News

Nearly 90 percent of patients who received the combination therapy were still alive after 12 months compared with about 78 percent of patients who were alive after a year when treated with the older drug Sutent, data showed. Merck on Monday released interim data from the trial, saying the combination reduced the risk of death by 47 percent compared with Sutent. The findings add to an arsenal of positive clinical data for Keytruda, which is approved to treat several types of cancer, making it by far Merck's most important growth driver. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2N97KxM via Latest News

California is set to become the first state to legally challenge Donald Trump's declaration of a national emergency to secure funding for a border wall, its attorney general said on Sunday. After a failed attempt to convince Congress to sign off on his demand for $5.7 billion (£4.4 billion) to build a structure along the country's southern border with Mexico, the US president announced he would be invoking the controversial power on Friday. By doing so, he is now theoretically able to siphon off money - up to $8 billion -  from government departments to fulfill his key campaign pledge. But it was long expected that the move would be slowed down and possibly torpedoed by legal challenges. Already, landowners in Texas have filed lawsuits saying it violates the Constitution and would infringe on their property rights. On Sunday Xavier Becerra, California's attorney general, signaled the Golden State would lead the way, arguing that money directed to the wall project would mean

LONDON (AP) — The family of a British teenager who ran away to join the Islamic State group and now wants to return to the U.K. said Sunday she has given birth to a baby boy. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2S6mTkh via Latest News

U.S. military airplanes loaded with food, medicine and hygiene kits took off from Homestead Air Reserve Base in Miami and landed at the Colombian border city of Cucuta on Saturday. The aid now sits alongside relief supplies that arrived on Feb. 8. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2GNqW30 via Latest News

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has cancelled a visit to Israel for a high-level summit, a government spokesperson told AFP on Sunday, after uproar in Poland over reported comments by Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu about the Poles and the Holocaust. Netanyahu -- who was initially quoted in Haaretz newspaper as saying that "The Poles collaborated with the Nazis" -- has been condemned in Poland for appearing to accuse all Polish people of cooperating with Germany during World War II. Warsaw has long been at pains to point out that Poland, which was occupied by Nazi Germany, could not have and did not collaborate in the Holocaust although individual Poles may have done so. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2GueOof via Latest News

Iran on Sunday launched a new locally-made submarine capable of firing cruise missiles, state TV said, in the country's latest show of military might at a time of heightened tensions with the US. The launch ceremony, led by President Hassan Rouhani, took place in the southern port city of Bandar Abbas. "Today, the Islamic Republic of Iran is fully self-reliant on land, air and sea," Rouhani said. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2X6MQUy via Latest News

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and German Chancellor Angela Merkel gave speeches at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday criticizing each other's countries on trade and national security. It's the latest in a widening rift between the United States and its European allies. Rough cut (no reporter narration) from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2toTubc via Latest News

Gary Martin, 45, who carried his pistol to work on Friday apparently suspecting he faced dismissal from his job, opened fire after being told of his termination in a meeting at the Henry Pratt Company plant in Aurora, Illinois, about 40 miles (64 km) west of Chicago, police said. The dead included the plant manager, a human resources supervisor, a human resources intern and two other workers. A sixth employee and five police officers responding to the scene were wounded, and the gunman himself was slain about 90 minutes later in a gunfight with police who stormed the building. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2S8exIQ via Latest News