A federal judge gave his initial approval to the settlement, but the decade-old case won’t be over until a final hearing in August.

Alphabet Inc.’s Google has been hit by a fresh class action lawsuit in the UK alleging that the US tech giant abused its “near-total dominance” in online search to overcharge hundreds of thousands of firms for digital ads.

Google is facing a class action lawsuit in the UK, alleging the American tech giant of using its search dominance to