Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg approved allowing minors to access artificial intelligence chatbot companions despite internal warnings that the tools were capable of sexual and romantic interactions, according to internal company documents
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Khaled Abu Jarrar, a 58-year-old Palestinian from Beit Hanoon, now shelters in Gaza City’s former Legislative Council building—one of thousands of structures repurposed as displacement camps after Israel’s genocidal assault reduced entire
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Western Power and the Persistence of Colonial Structures There are moments in global politics when the mask slips—not because power suddenly discovers morality, but because maintaining the performance becomes too expensive. Recently
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President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s (AKD) recent visit to Jaffna received significant social media attention due to posting of a less than a minute-long video of him going for a walk there. An
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California Governor Gavin Newsom has spent 2025 setting himself up as Donald Trump’s leading opponent and the Democratic Party’s 2028 presidential nominee. While the Trump-Newsom rivalry has captivated some voters to pick sides,
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Imperial deceit now stands starkly exposed in Bangladesh: the calculated rehabilitation of the executioners of 1971, ushered back toward power with chilling audacity. There is an irony so stark, so unembarrassed, that
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France’s lower house of parliament has approved legislation that would prohibit children under the age of 15 from using social media, a decisive step backed by President Emmanuel Macron as part of
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India’s energy sector offers investment opportunities worth an estimated $500 billion, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday, underscoring the strategic role of the industry in the country’s economic transformation. Speaking via
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Stellan Skarsgård, one of European cinema’s most enduring presences, is experiencing an unexpected career crescendo at 74. After six decades of work across theater, arthouse cinema, and Hollywood blockbusters, the Swedish actor
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Eric Schmidt, one of Silicon Valley’s most influential figures of the past two decades, has issued a stark warning to Europe over its approach to artificial intelligence, arguing that the continent is
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The European Union and India have agreed what leaders on both sides are calling the largest trade deal ever concluded between them, a sweeping agreement that cuts billions of euros in tariffs
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Oxfam has been investigated over major failures in its staff vetting processes, eight years after the charity was engulfed by the Haiti sexual abuse scandal that forced it to promise sweeping reforms.
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Japan cannot afford to stand aside if the United States defends Taiwan in a future conflict with China, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has said, warning that failure to support American forces would
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Entire neighbourhoods in a hilltop town in southern Sicily have been torn apart by a massive landslide triggered by extreme rainfall, forcing the evacuation of around 1,500 residents and leaving buildings split
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The World Health Organization has said the risk of further international spread of the Nipah virus from the latest outbreak in India remains low, adding that there is no evidence so far
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