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US war losses in Afghanistan rose by one-third in 12 months due to increased US operations, the Wall Street Journal reported. The journalists were handed a report presented to Congress by the government of President Donald Trump. It states that by November 2017, the United States lost 14 people and 127 were wounded in the fighting.

Walt Disney Co's deal to buy film, television and international businesses from Rupert Murdoch's Twenty-First Century Fox Inc  will value the latter at over $40 per share, or $75 billion, a person familiar with the matter said, quoted by Reuters.

Google was a major source of online media traffic forwarding, but Facebook managed to overtake it. Now, however, Google regains its dominance in this area, writes Re/Code.

At some point in 2017, the search engine has become a major source of external page views, according to new data from Parse.ly's  digital analytics firm.

The administration of President Donald Trump intends to present a new US security strategy in the coming weeks, the Wall Street Journal quoted him as saying.

Uber's US Shared Travel Service and Russian Internet Company Yandex intend to step up cooperation in Russia, the DPA reported.

Yandex is the market leader in internet search in Russia and Yandex Taxi offers its own online taxi service.

The shooting down of a Turkish RF-4E Phantom reconnaissance jet on June 22, 2012 by Syria after it had violated Syrian airspace near Latakia was a secret false flag operation planned by Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) to push Turkey into a military incursion into its southern neighbor at the outset of the civil war in the Arab country while dragging NATO along with it.

ISIS used bogus eBay deals to funnel money to an operative in the U.S., according to a report Thursday, quoted by NY Daily News.

Mohamed Elshinawy was arrested in Maryland more than a year ago following a detailed FBI investigation, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing a 2016 indictment.

Donald Trump described Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election as a "total fabrication" on Aug. 3 amid reports that a special prosecutor has impaneled a grand jury to investigate the issue -- a step toward possible criminal indictments.

"We didn't win because of Russia. We won because of you," Trump said at a campaign-style rally in West Virginia.

The world's first crewless, automated ship will launch in 2018, reports the Wall Street Journal, and is expected to be fully autonomous by 2020.

The International Monetary Fund's Executive Board was due to approve the organization's participation in the Greek program "in principle" last night but doubts persisted about when Athens might be able to return to the bond markets.