US billionaire Elon Musk’s X erupted in uproar after the rollout of a feature revealing an account’s location. The change exposed what users described yesterday as “global troll farms” and influence operations on the platform – including in support of US President Donald Trump, AFP reported. Countless diehard MAGA (Make America Great Again) accounts that promote an […]
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Pope Leo XIV has accepted the resignation of an ailing Spanish bishop who is under church investigation for allegedly sexually abusing a young seminarian in the 1990s. ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV on Saturday accepted the resignation of an ailing Spanish bishop who is under church investigation for allegedly sexually abusing a young seminarian in the 1990s, the
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A special tribunal in Bangladesh sentenced former prime minister Sheikh Hasina to death for crimes against humanity linked to the 2024 student uprising. With Hasina living in exile in India since August last year, Dhaka is pressuring New Delhi for her extradition, turning the verdict into a major diplomatic test for the neighbours Sheikh Hasina,
A SPECIAL tribunal today sentenced Bangladesh’s ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina to death on charges of crimes against humanity for her crackdown on a student uprising last year that killed hundreds of people. The protests brought an end to Ms Hasina’s 15-year rule. The Dhaka-based International Crimes Tribunal also sentenced former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan to death
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China’s most advanced aircraft carrier, the Fujian, has entered service days after a grand commissioning ceremony overseen by Chinese leader Xi Jinping, state media said. The Fujian, the country’s third warship, is equipped with electromagnetic catapults which will allow planes to be launched at higher speeds. Its launch marked a significant step forward for Beijing,
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A passenger train has crashed into a cargo train in central India, killing at least 11 people. The local passenger train hit the cargo train from behind near the city of Bilaspur, about 115 kilometres (70 miles) northeast of Chhattisgarh’s state capital of Raipur on Tuesday night, senior government official Sanjay Agarwal told The Associated
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US President Donald Trump said he is not going “to be wasting my time” by meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin if the Kremlin leader is not ready to make a deal to end his war on Ukraine. “You have to know that we’re going to make a deal. I’m not going to be wasting
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Russia has tested the nuclear-powered Burevestnik cruise missile, Moscow’s top general has said. “We have launched a multi-hour flight of a nuclear-powered missile and it covered a 14,000km (8,700-mile) distance, which is not the limit,” Chief of General Staff Valery Gerasimov told President Vladimir Putin in a televised meeting. The low-flying experimental weapon, first announced
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SEOUL, Oct. 6 (UPI) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited the country’s first 5,000-ton destroyer and called for bolstering naval power to “punish” threats to national sovereignty, state-run media reported Monday. Kim visited the Choe Hyon destroyer on Sunday with high-ranking party and government officials as part of his tour of a military hardware exhibition, the
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A day after Indonesia suspended TikTok’s operating license in the country, it swiftly revoked the suspension after the social media company gave the government what it wanted: data from livestreaming activity during nationwide anti-government protests in August. Alexander Sabar, director general of digital space supervision from Indonesia’s Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs (Komdigi), said in a
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