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Tech giant Meta said Thursday it is starting to remove under-16s in Australia from Instagram, Threads and Facebook ahead of the country's world-first youth social media ban.Australia is requiring major online platforms, also including TikTok and YouTube, to block underage users by December 10, w...
French President Emmanuel Macron told Xi Jinping that France and China must overcome their "differences", as the two leaders met in Beijing on Thursday."Sometimes there are differences, but it is our responsibility to overcome them for the greater good," Macron told Xi during the...
The death toll from severe flooding in southern Thailand last month rose to 267, a health ministry spokesman told AFP on Wednesday.Heavy rain and flooding inundated the country's south late last month, killing at least 267 people across eight provinces from November 22-27, with more than half --...
A local government official and five police officers have been killed in two attacks in Pakistan near its border with Afghanistan, officials told AFP on Wednesday.Tensions between the two countries remain high after weeks of escalating border clashes, despite a ceasefire agreed after violent fightin...
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As planes make their final approach to Washington DC's Dulles Airport, just below lies Ashburn, a town otherwise known as Data Center Alley -- where an estimated 70 percent of all global internet traffic at any moment finds its way.Decades ago, the expanse of empty lots, forest and farmland in t...
Moscow: High-stakes US-Russia talks on ending the war in Ukraine failed to yield a breakthrough on Tuesday, as the Kremlin said "no compromise" had been found yet on the key question of territory.Russian President Vladimir Putin met US President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kus...
Gunmen opened fire in a bar in central Mexico, killing seven people and severely wounding five others on Saturday, police said.Four people were found dead at the scene while three more died while receiving medical care after the shooting in Tula, around 60 miles (97 kilometers) north of the capital ...
AFP, ParisA NASA rover has recorded evidence of lightning on Mars for the first time, its microphone picking up the sounds of tiny "zaps" whipped up by the dust storms constantly sweeping across the planet.Scientists have long debated whether electrical discharges could be sparking in the ...
Israeli strikes in Gaza overnight have killed at least 60 people, including many children, local hospital officials reported Wednesday.The attacks follow Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s directive for “powerful strikes” in Gaza, citing Hamas’s violations of the fra...
AFP, Jerusalem: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said on Friday that the government had "approved the framework" of a hostage release deal with Hamas, as both sides edged closer to ending more than two years of hostilities in Gaza.Israel previously said "all part...
The death toll from a powerful earthquake in the central Philippines rose to 72 on Thursday, rescuers said, as officials turned their efforts to the hundreds injured and thousands left homeless.Firefighters and rescuers pulled a woman and her child from the rubble of a collapsed hotel overnight Wedn...
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky is set to join talks with leaders from across Europe in Copenhagen Thursday, as the EU seeks to bolster Kyiv's fight against Russia in the face of dwindling US support.Heads of state and governments from just under 50 countries will converge on a confer...
The Philippines weather forecaster warned Thursday of dangerous flooding in coastal areas as Tropical Storm Matmo is set to hit the disaster-weary nation.The cyclone, bringing winds of 75 kilometres (47 miles) an hour, is expected to strengthen into a severe tropical storm hours before it reaches th...
There are not enough new tests and treatments in the pipeline to tackle the growing spread of drug-resistant bacteria, the World Health Organization warned Thursday.The WHO says the increasing prevalence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) -- particularly the growing resistance of harmful bacteria to ...
The Trump administration has announced plans to terminate dozens of clean energy projects and freeze billions of dollars for major projects in New York, intensifying a stand-off with Democrats over a US government shutdown.US media outlets described the moves announced by the energy and transportati...
Israel said on Thursday it will deport to Europe pro-Palestinian activists on an aid flotilla headed towards Gaza as the Israeli navy intercepted vessel after vessel in the Mediterranean.The Global Sumud Flotilla of around 45 vessels began its voyage to Gaza last month, with politicians and activist...
Three people have been killed in protests in Morocco demanding reforms to the public health and education sectors, Prime Minister Aziz Akhannouch said Thursday, in his first public address since the unrest started nearly a week ago."We have unfortunately recorded the deaths of three people"...
Russia and Ukraine exchanged 185 prisoners of war each on Thursday, Moscow and Kyiv said, the latest in a series of swaps that have continued despite the lack of progress towards ending the conflict.Russia's defence ministry said on Telegram that "185 Russian servicemen have been returned&q...
More than 16,000 people have been killed in armed violence in Haiti since the start of 2022, the United Nations said Thursday, warning that "the worst may be yet to come"."The human rights situation in Haiti has reached a boiling point", with abuses and violence having escalated ...
NEW YORK: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Filippo Grandi warned that the plight of the Rohingyas will not end without bold action inside Myanmar, saying that the solution to the protracted crisis lies there (Myanmar).“The most important however is not to forget that this crisis origi...
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