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Bureaucrats want a final say on what can and cannot be discussed, Alexandre Guerreiro has said The European Union is using legal tools to pressure social media platforms and steer public debate on politically sensitive topics, Portugal-based international law expert Alexandre Guerreiro has told RT. His comments came after the EU fined platform X €120 million ($163 million) last week …

An eight-year-old boy in eastern China has ignited a heated online discussion after he chopped his mother’s gold necklace into small pieces and gave them to classmates as gifts. The boy’s unusual act, which was only discovered after the month it was carried out, left his mother angry and amused while his father beat him as a punishment because they …

The US president claims the Ukrainian leader hasn’t read his newest peace proposal US President Donald Trump has said that he was disappointed that Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky hasn’t read his most recent proposals for peace between Russia and Ukraine. “I have to say that I’m a little bit disappointed that President Zelensky hasn’t yet read the proposal, that was …

Thailand has launched a series of airstrikes along its shared and disputed border with neighbouring Cambodia, with both Asian nations accusing each other of drawing first blood after a US-brokered treaty saw several months of peace. Tensions are now rising between the two once more, with a truce agreement signed by both countries in October seemingly now dumped. In July, …

Younger Japanese are proving to be the most resistant to immigration, defying assumptions that generational change would produce greater cosmopolitanism. A new survey found that 70 per cent of those aged 18 to 39 expressed safety concerns about foreign workers – higher than any other demographic. This unexpected reversal reveals a generation grappling with anxieties that cut across conventional narratives …

The support for Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s cabinet is record low, a survey from INSA suggests More than two-thirds of Germans are dissatisfied with Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s government, a recent survey suggests. According to an INSA poll published by Bild on Saturday, 70% of the 1,005 respondents said they disapproved of the work of the ruling coalition, while only 21% said …

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani posted a video to social media on Sunday explaining immigrants’ right to refuse to speak to or comply with agents from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), days after federal agents carried out a raid in Manhattan. In the video, Mamdani vowed to protect the city’s 3 million immigrants, saying, “We can all stand …

The current chancellor is one of the “most sensitive” politicians in Germany’s history, Welt am Sonntag reports German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has filed nearly 5,000 defamation complaints over online comments, Welt am Sonntag reported on Sunday. The newspaper said it had obtained copies of the complaints, police files, and letters from law firms representing the leader of the Christian Democratic …

Vladimir Putin’s Russian army has been accused of raping and beheading civilians and gouging out their organs in a supposed fight against extremism in West Africa. Russia‘s paramilitary Africa Corps were deployed to Mali to take over the fight against Islamic militants from Wagner forces earlier this year. Wagner merceneries were known for their brutal treatment of civilians and human …

A water leak last month damaged hundreds of books in the Egyptian antiquities department at the Louvre, underscoring the deteriorating state of the world’s most visited museum just weeks after a daring jewel heist exposed security flaws. Specialist website La Tribune de l’Art reported that around 400 rare books were affected, blaming poor pipe conditions. It said the department had …