Facebook has been criticised for temporarily removing the official page of the small French town of Bitche. The social network’s algorithm confused the name of the town in Moselle, north-east…
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Denmark: Six from UK and US charged with US$175m fraud
Prosecutors in Denmark have charged three Britons and three Americans with defrauding the Danish treasury of more than 1.1bn kroner ($175m; £130m; €150m) through a German bank. Two British citizens…
Russia: Is Moscow preparing to invade Ukraine?
Sabre-rattling or preparations for war? Since mid-March, there have been many warnings from Ukraine and Western governments that Russia is massing troops in Russian-annexed Crimea and around the eastern Ukraine…
USA: US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine
US health authorities are calling for a pause in the use of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine, after reports of extremely rare blood clotting cases. The Food and Drug…
Japan: Authorities approve releasing Fukushima wastewater into ocean
Japan has approved a plan to release more than one million tonnes of contaminated water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea. The water will be treated and…
UK: ‘World’s biggest rabbit’ stolen from owner’s garden
An award-winning four-foot long rabbit is thought to have been stolen from its enclosure. Darius, a continental giant rabbit, went missing from his home in Stoulton, Worcestershire, on Saturday night.…
France: Manhunt after ‘execution’ shooting in Paris
Paris police are hunting a gunman after what a witness described as an “execution” shooting outside a hospital in the French capital. A man in his 30s was killed and…
USA: Daunte Wright shooting by police ‘accidental’
The fatal shooting of a black man by a police officer in the US city of Brooklyn Center in Minnesota was an accident, the police chief has said. Daunte Wright,…
USA: Will Smith’s slavery film Emancipation pulls out of Georgia over voting laws
Will Smith’s slavery film Emancipation has pulled out of filming in Georgia over what the star has called the US state’s new “regressive voting laws”. In a statement issued to…
India: Crowds surging at Haridwar Kumbh Mela
Several million Hindus have gathered to take a dip in the Ganges river as a deadly second Covid-19 wave continues to sweep India. The devotees are marking an auspicious bathing…