Sat 03 May 2025: TikTok has been hit with a €530 million ($601 million) fine by Irish data protection authorities on Friday for breaching European privacy rules, marking it one of the largest penalties ever imposed under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The ruling follows a lengthy investigation by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC), […]
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Sat 03 May 2025: People of Indian-administered Kashmir pray that the situation between India and Pakistan is “resolved without going to war,” the region’s top cleric said Friday, amid ongoing tensions since the April 22 attack which left 26 people dead. “We pray that the situation between India and Pakistan that is getting worse by […]
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Fri 02 May 2025: Germany’s domestic intelligence agency on Friday classified the far-right Alternative for Germnay (AfD) party as a “proven extremist group”—a designation likely to reignite the debate about banning the party. The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) announced that its extensive investigation has determined the party has been following […]
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Fri 02 May 2025: The Israeli military is preparing for a large-scale mobilisation of reserve troops in order to expand its ground operations in Gaza amid a growing crisis in troop numbers and escalating public tensions over the fate of Israeli captives held in Gaza, according to Israeli media. Prime Minister Netanyahu is expected to […]
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Fri 02 May 2025: White House accuses outlets of using public money to spread ‘woke propaganda’ as alarm raised on media freedom. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order slashing subsidies to two United States public broadcasters. Trump issued the order to halt federal funding to PBS and NPR late on Thursday, accusing them […]
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Fri 02 May 2025: Dozens of trials on HIV ground to a halt in February after US President Donald Trump abruptly pulled crucial funding. Patrick Arbuthnot was browsing his emails on what seemed like a normal workday in his lab in Johannesburg when he saw a strange notification pop up. “Stop Work,” it read. Arbuthnot […]
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Fri 02 May 2025: Social media campaign depicts fictional scenes of officials becoming disillusioned with ruling Chinese Communist Party. The CIA has launched a Chinese-language social media campaign calling on government officials in China to switch sides and leak secrets to the United States. The two videos released on Thursday depict fictional scenes involving Chinese […]
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Fri 02 May 2025: US tariffs and Canada’s response could result in 68,100 fewer jobs in the Ontario province in 2025, according to a report Wednesday by the Financial Accountability Office of Ontario. The figure may increase to 119,200 next year and 137,900 jobs in 2029. The report contrasts a scenario with no tariffs versus […]
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Fri 02 May 2025: WhatsApp, Meta’s messaging app, now boasts over 3 billion monthly users, as announced by CEO Mark Zuckerberg during the company’s Q1 results call. Having reached 2 billion users in 2020, it joins an elite group, including Meta’s Facebook, in surpassing the 3 billion user mark. Because of its enormous user base, […]
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Fri 02 May 2025: Near a planet far, far away, astronomers have found traces of chemicals that on Earth are only produced by living beings. Astronomers have found the clearest evidence yet that life might exist beyond the solar system, from the atmosphere of a planet 124 light years away from Earth, setting off rare […]
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