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Utah on Tuesday became the latest U.S. state to sue TikTok, alleging the company is “baiting” children into addictive and unhealthy social media habits. TikTok lures children into hours of social media use, misrepresents the app’s safety and deceptively portrays itself as independent of its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, Utah claims in the lawsuit. “We […]
NAIROBI, KENYA — A Kenyan court on Monday temporarily suspended a government plan to send police to Haiti on a U.N.-backed mission aiming to restore calm to the gang-infested Caribbean nation. The U.N. Security Council last week approved a Kenyan-led multinational security force for the troubled country, with Nairobi promising 1,000 police officers. But a Nairobi […]
Israeli military spokesperson Lt. Col. Richard Hecht told reporters that fighting was still ongoing in seven to eight places in Israel and that it was taking longer than expected to repel the incursion that began Saturday. Another spokesperson, Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus, said Israel had called up 100,000 reserve troops. “Our job is to make […]
LONDON — Vodafone underlined its commitment to Open RAN networks on Monday by confirming it would create purpose-built chipset architecture for the nascent technology with Intel INTC.O. The European operator also said it had made its first 4G calls using Open RAN over network sites shared with Orange ORAN.PA in Romania, and it was partnering with […]
KALÝVIA THORIKOÚ — In an animal shelter near Athens, veterinarian Kleopatra Gkika gently smears soothing cream on the leg of a tortoise, one of hundreds singed in Greece’s devastating summer wildfires. The healing process is going well, the vet noted. The burnt skin has fallen off and the tortoise can soon be released back into its […]
LONDON — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will give $40 million, including to a Belgian biotech company and two leading African vaccine manufacturers, in a bid to boost access to mRNA vaccines for protection against various diseases in Africa. Nivelles-based Quantoom Biosciences will get $20 million to advance work on its mRNA manufacturing platform, while […]
Taylor Swift has skipped Travis Kelce’s NFL game in Minnesota. During the Sunday NFL game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Vikings at the US Bank Stadium in Minnesota, NFL announcers confirmed that the Lover singer was not in attendance to support the Chiefs player. “In case you’re wondering, seven words I thought would […]
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — The New England Patriots gave up. Down 24-0 early in the second half, hearing boos at home like they used to on the road, a week after the worst loss of coach Bill Belichick’s career, with quarterback Mac Jones on his way to the bench for the second straight game, the […]
Around 2,200 rockets were launched from the Gaza Strip into Israel on Saturday morning, according to the Israeli military, while armed gunmen infiltrated across the border in a ground assault into southern Israel. Hamas, the Palestinian militant movement that runs Gaza and claimed responsibility for the attack, said it had captured several Israeli soldiers near […]
Chris Rock has signed on to direct a biopic about late civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. The comedian is in final talks to direct and produce the upcoming project based on Jonathan Eig’s biography King: A Life, according to Variety. Praised as the definitive biography of the late civil rights icon, King: A […]
