
TikTok shuts down as US ban takes effect
TikTok’s app effectively shut down in the US, just hours before a law banning the popular video-sharing platform was set to go into effect. “A law banning TikTok has been enacted in the US Unfortunately, that means you can’t use TikTok for now,” a message reads when American users open the...
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‘Trump wants to visit China, talked about possible trip to India’
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TikTok users in limbo as ban looms
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Tens of thousands to converge on Washington for march days before Trump takes office
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Gunman fatally shoots two judges in Tehran
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Impeached S Korean prez argues for his release
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Israel prepares for return of hostages
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Xi, Trump hold talks over phone
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China launches Pakistani satellite into space
(): China successfully launched a Pakistani satellite into space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on Friday. The satellite, Pakistan’s first indigenous Electro-Optical (EO-1), was launched at 12.07 pm (Beijing Time) by a Long March-2D carrier rocket and entered its planned orbit successfully, state-run Xinhua news agency reported. Named PRSC-EO1, the...
UK orders ‘rapid audit’ of ethnicity in child sexual abuse
The UK government has ordered a “rapid audit” of the scale and nature of grooming gangs based child sexual exploitation, including an examination of ethnicity data to determine “cultural and societal drivers” behind the crimes.UK Home Secretary Yvette Cooper laid out the plans in a statement in the House of...
Graffiti on Assad’s prison walls express Syrians’ fears and loves
(): Languishing in a dungeon cell of Syria’s then-ruler Bashar Assad, an unknown prisoner scrawled a verse of Arabic poetry on his cell wall - an expression of pain and love amid his torment. “My country, even if it oppresses me, is dear. My people, even if uncharitable to me,...
Lloyd Austin ends his term marred by Afghanistan but buoyed by Ukraine
Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin will bid farewell Friday to the forces and personnel he has led through a tumultuous term that had three major military crises, a global pandemic and a personal brush with cancer that became a flashpoint for the way it was mishandled. Austin, 71, spent 41 years of...
‘Elon Musk’s support for European far-right completely unacceptable’
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Friday that Elon Musk’s support for the far-right in Europe is “completely unacceptable”, adding to his previous criticism of Musk’s interventions in the German election campaign. Musk has said over the past month that only the far-right party Alternative for Germany, or AfD, can “save Germany”. Last...
Pence calls on Trump to renew US support for Taiwan
(): Former US vice president Mike Pence called on President-elect Donald Trump to renew his pledge to support Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion. Speaking during a visit to Taipei on Friday, Pence said China’s annexation of the island would impact global trade, technology and nuclear proliferation. “The fall of...
3 lawyers for late Russian opp leader Navalny jailed by court
Three lawyers who once represented the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny were convicted by a court Friday as part of the Kremlin’s crackdown on dissent that has reached levels unseen since Soviet times. Vadim Kobzev, Igor Sergunin and Alexei Liptser were already in custody and were given sentences from 3...