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Australia’s social media ban for under-16s takes effect in world first • FRANCE 24 English
Australia banned under-16s from the likes of Facebook and TikTok on Wednesday, in a world-first move that will be closely monitored by other countries considering similar measures to offset the harms of social media on...
Public spending watchdog rules UK asylum system as ‘flawed’ and wasting billions
Sky’s communities correspondent Lisa Holland has spoken to a Palestinian asylum seeker who remains in limbo. The independent public spending watchdog has ruled the UK’s current asylum processes are flawed and...
ICC sentences Darfur militia leader to 20 years
Judges at the International Criminal Court on Tuesday (December 9) sentenced a Janjaweed militia leader to 20 years in prison for atrocities committed in Sudan’s Darfur region. Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman, also known...
NATO bolsters Baltics missions amid Russian airspace violations
Tensions in the Baltics have risen over alleged airspace violations by Russia and its ally Belarus involving drones and fighter jets. NATO has now bolstered its policing missions in the region, including for Operation...
Florida, Texas designate CAIR as a ‘terrorist organisation’
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has signed an executive order designating one of the country’s most prominent Muslim civil rights groups, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), as a “foreign terrorist...
Venezuela’s Machado to receive Nobel Peace Prize despite travel ban • FRANCE 24 English
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado is due to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on Wednesday despite a decade-long travel ban and more than a year in hiding. Her whereabouts are unknown and it is...