Azerbaijan’s defence ministry says it has begun “anti-terrorist” operations in areas of its Nagorno-Karabakh region under ethnic-Armenian control. Tensions in the South Caucasus have been high for months around the…
USA: Marilyn Manson sentenced for blowing nose on camerawoman
Marilyn Manson has been sentenced by a judge in New Hampshire for blowing his nose on a camerawoman in an incident the judge called “egregious”. The musician will serve 20…
Japan: More than 10 percent of population aged 80 or older
For the first time ever, more than one in 10 people in Japan are now aged 80 or older. National data also shows 29.1% of the 125 million population is…
USA: It may cost you to access Social media platform X- Elon Musk
Elon Musk has suggested that all users of X, formerly called Twitter, may have to pay for access to the platform. In a conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,…
UK: Tata Steel’s Port Talbot steelworks gets £500m by UK government
Port Talbot’s steelworks will be given up to £500m by the UK government in a bid to keep the plant open and produce steel in a greener way, but it…
Ireland: TikTok fined €345m over children’s data privacy
Irish regulators have fined TikTok €345m (£296m) for violating children’s privacy. The complaint concerned how the social media app handled children’s data in 2020 – particularly around age verification and…
France: Apple to update iPhone 12 over radiation
Apple will update its iPhone 12 in France after fears about radiation, the country’s digital minister says. Jean-Noel Barrot said Apple would deliver a software update for users in the…
Denmark: Artist supplies blank canvasses as art after receiving €67,000 from museum
A Danish artist has been ordered to return nearly 500,000 kroner (€67,000) to a museum after he supplied it with two blank canvasses for a project he named “Take the…
DRC: Floods kill 17 people
Seventeen people have been killed by a landslide in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The disaster occurred overnight on Sunday near the banks of the Congo river, in the northern…
Egypt: Main opposition to boycott election
The main liberal opposition political movement in Egypt has said it won’t nominate a candidate in the presidential election due next year after one of its leaders was sentenced to…