About 550,000 accounts were blocked by Meta during the first days of Australia’s landmark social media ban for kids. In December, a new law began requiring that the world’s most popular social media sites – including Instagram and Facebook – stop Australians aged under 16 from having accounts on their platforms. The ban, which is […]
Continue ReadingUK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is in talks with Canada and Australia in an effort to muster support for a potential international ban on social media X. It comes after the platform’s integrated AI assistant, Grok, was used to generate sexualised deepfakes of women and children. Starmer is in talks with Australia and Canada, who […]
Continue ReadingDenmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said on Sunday her country faced a “decisive moment” in its diplomatic dispute with the United States over Greenland, after Donald Trump again suggested using force to seize the Arctic territory. Speaking ahead of meetings in Washington on raw materials, Frederiksen said “there is a conflict over Greenland.”
Continue ReadingThousands of tourists have been stranded in Finland’s Lapland as a severe cold spell has grounded flights out of one of its airports. Departures from Lapland’s Kittila airport that would have ferried winter travellers back to places like London, Bristol, Manchester, Paris and Amsterdam were all cancelled on Sunday as temperatures did not go above […]
Continue ReadingJan 11, 2026, 9:11 p.mJan 11, 2026, 9:11 p.m Firefighters in El Hoyo, Argentina, Patagonia.Image: keystone Forest fires in Patagonia have destroyed almost 15,000 hectares of land since Monday. Hundreds of firefighters and volunteers continued to work on Sunday to contain the flames. The fires broke out on Monday in the seaside resort of Puerto […]
Continue ReadingThe European Union is reportedly demanding guarantees the UK will compensate the bloc if a future government reneges on the Brexit “reset” agreement British prime minister Keir Starmer is currently negotiating. The termination clause is a stark reminder of the painful and costly divorce in which the EU set up a colossal €5.4 billion fund […]
Continue ReadingJan 11, 2026, 7:23 p.mJan 11, 2026, 7:23 p.m A French rescue helicopter in the Alpine region. (symbol image)Image: AP Two skiers died in two separate avalanches in the Savoie ski resorts of Courchevel and La Plagne on Sunday. Three skiers had already died in the French Alps on Saturday. However, skiers were only injured […]
Continue ReadingSudan’s military-led government has returned to the country’s capital after nearly three years of operating from its wartime base in the eastern city of Port Sudan. Sudan’s Prime Minister Kamil Idris told reporters on Sunday that the “government of hope” was officially back in Khartoum and would begin efforts to improve services for the city’s […]
Continue ReadingThe death toll in the crackdown on nationwide protests in Iran has spiked to at least 538 people, activists said. More than 10,600 people have been detained, said the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency. Of those killed, 490 are protesters and 48 are members of the security forces, it said, warning the toll is […]
Continue ReadingThousands of tourists are stranded in northern Finland after flights at Kittila airport were cancelled due to severe cold. The temperature at the airport dropped to minus 37C on Sunday morning, after several days of similar frigid weather, making de-icing of aircraft and other operations difficult, Finland’s national public broadcaster Yle reported. The deep freeze […]
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