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Australian parliament passes media reforms after last-ditch changes
Australia’s parliament passed a law on Thursday to make Alphabet Inc’s Google and Facebook Inc pay media companies for content on their ...China bans BBC World News in row over Xinjiang reporting
China’s broadcasting regulator has banned BBC World News, accusing it of flouting guidelines over a hard-hitting report on Beijing’s treatment of the ...President Trump will not attend Biden inauguration
President Donald Trump announced Friday he will skip Joe Biden’s inauguration in a final, unrepentant act of division as his presidency imploded ...Filmmaker’s trial raises concerns over freedom in new Sudan
More than a year after the overthrow of Sudanese strongman Omar al-Bashir, amid the promise of new leadership, Sudanese film director Hajooj ...Ecuador couple certified as oldest married pair, nearly 215
Julio Mora slipped away from his parents to secretly marry Waldramina Quinteros one February day. Both families disapproved. Seventy-nine years later, they’re ...TikTok lovers rage against Trump threat of US ban
A TikTok star pounds a beat as she weaves lyrics mocking the idea of US President Donald Trump banning the short-form video ...President Trump and Ivanka criticised over Goya support
A government watchdog organisation says Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter and a White House adviser, likely violated federal ethics rules when she ...Twitter hit by major hack targeting high-profile users
Twitter is investigating a massive hack in which high-profile users from Elon Musk to Joe Biden had their accounts hijacked by scammers ...Milan goes ‘phygital’ for first apres-lockdown fashion week
Milan kicks off its first Digital Fashion Week on Tuesday with two live runway shows, including from heavyweights Dolce & Gabbana, to ...Paris throws off mask to party like the virus never was
Social distancing and face masks were largely forgotten as thousands of French people danced and partied well into Monday in the first ...