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That hotly contested $10 billion contract to provide cloud computing services to the Pentagon was awarded to Microsoft this week over Amazon in a months-long battle.

Al-Baghdadi led IS for the last five years, presiding over its ascendancy as it cultivated a reputation for beheadings and attracted hundreds of thousands of followers to a sprawling and self-styled caliphate in Iraq and Syria.

Across the region, digital authoritarianism is increasing, with some governments regularly blocking popular social media applications including WhatsApp, especially its free calls feature.

At 134.5 square feet, the cost of the parking space breaks down to Rs 5.1 lakh per square foot, which is three times the median price of a Hong Kong house.

The discovery of the bodies - 38 adults and one teenager - was made on Wednesday after emergency services were alerted to people in a truck container on an industrial site in Grays, about 32km (20 miles) east of central London.

The prosecution of Prokopyeva and other harmless critics comes against the backdrop of foreboding and uncertainty over what might follow Putin, who has anchored the system for nearly two decades.

The deal between the Solomons' Central Province and the state-owned China Sam Group was 'unlawful, unenforceable and must be terminated with immediate effect', Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare's office said.

Samsung Group heir Jay Y. Lee attended the first hearing of a bribery trial at Seoul High Court after South Korea's top court ordered a review of his 2017 graft case.

The death of 39 people, believed to be of Chinese origin, in a refrigerated truck near London is an eerie reminder of a similar incident in 2000 when 58 Chinese nationals were found dead in a tomato truck.

At least 82 people were killed when Hagibis lashed central and eastern Japan with heavy rains and high winds. Nearly a dozen are still missing and more than 300 were injured.

The convict was sentenced to death for killing a doughnut shop employee by stabbing in the skull, stomach and back when burglarizing a Rapid City doughnut shop where the victim was an employee.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in a meeting with a small group of advisers on May 7 duscussed how to navigate the insistence from Trump and his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, for a probe and how to avoid becoming entangled in the American electi...

In a fiery early-morning speech, leftist Morales criticised recent violence that saw electoral offices torched and skirmishes between protesters and police, which he blamed on the right-wing opposition.

However, he also said that a "small number" of US troops will remain at Syria's oil fields despite a broader American withdrawal from the country.

Authorities said heavy overnight rainfall in the northeastern region of Catalonia caused power cuts that affected nearly 25,000 people while floods and landslides forced the closure of over 40 roads.

In another day of Brexit drama in the 800-year-old Westminster seat of power, lawmakers handed Johnson the first major parliamentary victory of his premiership by signalling their support for his deal in an early legislative hurdle.