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Australia will ban children under 16 from accessing nine social media platforms starting December 10, 2025, expanding the list to include Reddit and the livestreaming platform Kick, in addition to Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Threads, TikTok, X, and YouTube, the country’s Online Safety Commissioner......
China’s premier pledged on Wednesday that the country will continue to open up, denouncing “unilateral and protectionist practices,” as Beijing seeks to attract foreign investors in the face of the United States’ aggressive trade policy. In recent months, the world’s second-largest......
Just days before COP30 in Brazil, the European Union clinched a hard-fought compromise on its greenhouse gas reduction targets for 2035 and 2040, following intense internal negotiations and a series of concessions to win over reluctant member states. On paper, the EU still upholds its ambition to cut......
Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris, the two French nationals released from prison in Iran on Tuesday and now staying at the French embassy in Tehran, said they would not have endured their long detention without the strong support they received in France, according to the French ambassador. “They......
Around 80 flights were cancelled at Brussels Airport since Tuesday night after drones were spotted near the area, forcing Belgium’s air traffic control agency Skeyes to suspend all flights twice. Between 400 and 500 passengers were stranded overnight at the airport, while several flights were......
The United States entered its 36th day of a federal government shutdown on Wednesday — the longest in the nation’s history — as Republicans and Democrats remain deadlocked over the federal budget. Since the start of the impasse on October 1, hundreds of thousands of government workers......
A UPS cargo plane burst into flames and crashed shortly after takeoff from Louisville International Airport on Tuesday, killing at least seven people, according to Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear. Officials fear the death toll could rise as search operations continue through the wreckage. The UPS Flight......
Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old progressive and outspoken critic of Donald Trump, has been elected mayor of New York City after a decisive victory over former state governor Andrew Cuomo. His win marks a historic moment, as he becomes the city’s first Muslim mayor and one of the youngest to ever......
Abidjan, November 4, 2025 — The Constitutional Council of Ivory Coast confirmed on Tuesday that President Alassane Ouattara won the first round of the October 25 presidential election. “The candidate Alassane Ouattara is declared elected in the first round as......
Deutsche Telekom is entering the artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure market in a major way. CEO Timotheus Höttges announced in Berlin the launch of a joint project with U.S. chip giant Nvidia to build an AI factory in Munichworth over one billion euros. “Without......
A retired member of the French Republican Guard, Patrick Nicolle, has lost his appeal against a fine for illegal parking, despite being hospitalized at the time and unable to move his vehicle. The Carcassonne Police Court rejected his request to overturn the €35 fine,......
The European Commission has praised Ukraine’s progress toward joining the European Union, saying the country is ready to advance in its accession talks — even as Georgia distances itself from Brussels. In its annual enlargement report, published Tuesday,......
An 11-year-old child was injured by shattered glass after gunfire erupted overnight in the Brussels district of Anderlecht — an area known for intense drug trafficking. Around 15 shell casings were found at the scene. Authorities have launched an investigation and are searching for two suspects......
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