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TikTok’s new US joint venture has made changes to its privacy policy that include expanding the type of location data the company can collect from its 200 million American users. The new policy was published after investors closed a deal with TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance on Thursday to run the popular short-form video app’s business […]

A 22-year-old Afghan woman who was reportedly running a taekwondo gym for girls has been released after spending 13 days in jail, a spokesman for the Taliban’s supreme court confirmed. Khadija Ahmadzada was detained for being in “violation” of rules “regarding women’s sports gyms”, a spokesman for the Taliban’s ministry of vice and virtue told […]

A South African court has dismissed an appeal by the country’s heritage body to stop the sale and export of various artefacts connected to anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela. The 70 personal items include a cell key from Robben Island, where Mandela was imprisoned for 18 of the 27 years he was locked up, a pair […]

TikTok has finalised a deal to allow its American business to continue, by creating a new US entity separate from its global operations. The BBC’s Asia Business Correspondent Suranjana Tewari breaks down what this could mean.

The United Nations (UN) says it will take over management of a camp in north-eastern Syria holding holding thousands of people with alleged links to the jihadist group Islamic State (IS). It comes after Kurdish-led forces that had been running the camp withdrew in the face of an advance by Syrian government forces, triggering unrest […]

Emmanuel Macron/X The Grinch had set sail from Murmansk in northern Russia, French officials said France says it has seized an oil tanker in the Mediterranean suspected of being part of Russia’s sanction-busting “shadow fleet”. French President Emmanuel Macron said the tanker, named the Grinch, was “subject to international sanctions and suspected of flying a […]

Japan has suspended operations at the world’s largest nuclear power plant, hours after its restart, its operator has said. An alarm sounded “during reactor-start-up procedures” at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa in Tokyo but the reactor remained “stable”, Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) spokesperson Takashi Kobayashi said. Reactor number six restarted on Wednesday a day later than planned due […]

Paul KirbyEurope digital editor Aleksandr Gusev/SOPA Images Ukraine’s Volodymr Zelensky arrived in Davos on Thursday ahead of his talks with President Donald Trump (file pic) US President Donald Trump will meet Volodymyr Zelensky at Davos on Thursday, after his envoy Steve Witkoff expressed optimism about finalising a deal to end the war in Ukraine. “I […]

Paul AdamsDiplomatic correspondent Getty Images Protesters have taken to the streets outside the US consulate in Nuuk, Greenland this month What on earth has the last fortnight been all about? In the wake of a successful military operation in Venezuela earlier this month, a buoyed-up Donald Trump started to ratchet up the rhetoric on Greenland. […]

Parts of Russia’s Far East have been buried under its heaviest snowfall in 60 years, as scientists say the winter blast could be due to climate change affecting Arctic air patterns. In Kamchatka Peninsula, locals were seen shovelling in the streets, as rescuers helped people trapped in their homes. Public transportation was partially suspended in […]