[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] The confirmed death was that of al Qaeda’s Abu Muhammad al-Masri, who was accused of helping to mastermind the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa.

[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Google said it would pay for the application fees of about 500 young immigrants seeking employment under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (or DACA) program.

[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Existing Taiwanese passports have “Republic of China”, written in large English font at the top, with “Taiwan” printed at the bottom, which the government says creates confusion internationally.

[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Investigators at Moscow-based cybersecurity firm Kaspersky said the “backdoor” used to compromise up to 18,000 customers of U.S. software maker SolarWinds closely resembled malware tied to a hacking group known as “Turla,” which Estonian authorities have said operates on behalf of Russia’s FSB security service.