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How the Meta trial could change social media for young peopleA court has heard claims Meta intentionally hooked a generation of children on Facebook and Instagram, as the biggest legal challenge faced by the social media platform began.A jury in Oakland, California will spend the next six weeks wading through claims by top attorneys from several US states and lawyers for the social media company.A lawyer for California claimed Meta found “millions” of 11 and 12-year-olds were on Instagram and “did little to keep them off” as the trial opened on Tuesday.Meta’s representative said just over 100,000 such users were…
EPAUS and South Korean soldiers take part in joint drills in 2023South Korea’s annual joint military drills with the US will be cut short by six days at the request of Washington, its defence ministry has announced.Seoul said that the “period and scale” of the 2026 Ulchi Freedom Shield exercise had been adjusted due to a “proposal of the US side”. The drill will now conclude on 21 August, rather than 27 August as planned. It comes after Donald Trump announced plans to curtail exercises with South Korea, citing his “very good” relationship with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un.South Korean…
Getty ImagesUS President Donald Trump said he will delay imposing new tariffs on a wide array of Canadian goods for three days as the countries firm up a trade deal.”I have paused the 50% Tariffs against Canada, that were scheduled to kick in tomorrow morning for a three day period, based on the fact that Canada and the U.S.A., subject to the finalization of documents, have a DEAL!” Trump said in a social media post. The announcement came less than two hours before a 50% levy on nearly $20bn (C$28bn) of Canadian imports were set to go in place.The two…
Getty ImagesA member of Tupac Shakur’s entourage was combative in testimony during the second day of the rapper’s murder trial, decrying being forced to take the stand and identify those responsible for Shakur’s death.James “Mob James” McDonald said he was threatened with being held in contempt of court if he did not testify on Tuesday.Duane “Keffe D” Davis is charged with murder and accused of orchestrating Shakur’s death. He has denied the charges and pleaded not guilty.McDonald was asked repeatedly over whether he could identify who was responsible for Shakur’s death. “You’re asking me something that wouldn’t be good for…
ReutersFormer Ukrainian defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov has called for wartime elections, in what many see as the biggest challenge to Volodymyr Zelensky’s presidency since war broke out with Russia in February 2022.”Democracy cannot be held hostage by Russia,” said Fedorov, 35, in a video posted to YouTube on Tuesday, adding that Ukraine is fighting “precisely because we want to remain a free European state”.Since Russia’s invasion Ukraine has been under martial law, which means elections are suspended.Fedorov, who did not mention Zelensky by name in the video, was unexpectedly fired from his role as defence minister in late July, just…
LIVEAustralian court to hear mushroom killer’s appeal against murder convictionErin Patterson was convicted last year of murdering three relatives by serving them beef Wellington laced with poisonous mushrooms.
Cnews agenciesE CANAVERAL, Fla. (news agencies) — A NASA spacecraft circling the moon is providing the sharpest views yet of the crater carved by a crashing SpaceX rocket. The space agency released before-and-after photos of the impact area on Tuesday.The Falcon rocket’s upper stage plowed into the moon at 5,400 mph (8,700 kph) on Aug. 5 after drifting through space for more than a year. It launched a pair of private moon landers with experiments and even a tiny rover in 2025 as part of NASA’s push to commercialize lunar exploration.Based on these new photos by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter,…
NEW YORK (news agencies) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention still has an Alzheimer’s disease program. Congress appropriated $41 million to it this year. There’s just no one staffing it.Then there’s the agency’s Office on Smoking and Health. Congress allocated $246 million for that. Its staffers were cut, too.Same for the epilepsy program. Its sickle cell disease data collection operation. Its rape prevention unit.Think of them as the CDC’s zombie programs — they appear to be alive, at least according to legislation and congressional appropriations. But functionally they are dead or nearly dead, because the CDC experts who…
Youth for BokakhatPranab Doley is a well-known activist around Kaziranga in Assam On 30 July, the day Pranab Doley was set to be released from jail, his father and lawyer arrived at the prison in the northeastern Indian state of Assam to take the activist home.Doley, 40, had been arrested weeks earlier after joining a June protest against a proposed luxury hotel near Kaziranga National Park, a Unesco World Heritage Site whose grasslands, wetlands and forests are home to elephants, tigers and the world’s largest population of one-horned rhinos.A court had granted him and four others bail on 29 July.…
Why has Russia threatened the UK and what happens next?UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham has said London will continue “to support Ukraine 100%”.54 mins agoEurope