Two separate House committees have announced plans to examine the power of the major tech platforms.

George Tron, also mayor of Draveil in Paris, created a “hypersexualised environment” at his town hall. Brigitte Gruel, his deputy, was given a two-year suspended prison sentence.

After nearly half a century of full military rule, businesses linked to the army have a significant stake across the economy, with interests ranging from banking to beer, telecoms and transport.

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Le Figaro said the two individuals were arrested before February 4 as leverage in anticipation of the sentencing of Iranian diplomat in Belgium that day.

Australian expats have been boiling snow to create water and battling temperatures as low as -16 degrees after a massive power meltdown in the state.

The battle between Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell is emblematic of a war for the soul of the Republican Party. 

The bill would be a sharp reversal of Trump administration policies, and parts are likely to face opposition from a number of Republicans.

The Trump administration quit the pact designed to slow Iran’s nuclear program in 2018.

It took a nail-biting 11 1/2 minutes for the signal to confirm that the Perseverance probe landed on Mars at roughly at 7.55 am (AEDT).

The decision illustrated how Draghi’s appointment has badly split the 5-Stars, whose party was created as a grass-roots, anti-establishment protest movement.

When asked about the report, the Foreign Ministry’s top spokesperson, Hua Chunying, didn’t directly address the allegations about China’s role in spreading virus disinformation.

The US Senator flew to the Mexican resort city of Cancun with his family, as millions of his fellow Texans struggled through a deadly deep freeze, sparking a wave of criticism.

The Chair of the Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee has urged Australians not to let Facebook bully them, warning the social media giant will only bully the rest of the world if they get away with it.

The announcement brings closure to a dramatic tragedy on one of the most dangerous mountains to climb in the world.

Her resume answered the gender equity requirement, but the seven-time Olympian will have to get her skates on as the delayed Games are due to start in July.

The US is the largest funder of the WHO, and its dues to the body in 2020 were assessed at 22 per cent of the organisation’s budget.

The new PM says Italy has a once-in-a-lifetime chance to rethink and rebuild the country, with a government he says will be environmentally conscious, staunchly pro-European and keen digital reforms.

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Informants told the court Attilio Manca had treated a Cosa Nostra boss who was in hiding at the time and hoped to remain so.

Several staffers have already fallen ill with COVID-19 and many are working in high-risk environments like airports while coordinating repatriation flights for stranded Australians.

Hungary and Poland that are seen as the EU’s recalcitrant members, often criticised for perceived political interference in areas like the judiciary and media freedom.

Facebook has announced that it will restrict publishers and people in Australia from sharing or viewing Australian and international news content in response to Australia’s proposed media bargaining laws.

The state’s electric grid operator has said that renewable energy sources partially failed but that thermal sources lost almost twice as much much power.

Alarmingly to US officials, the defendants worked at times from locations in Russia and China.

The provocative and polarising US talk radio luminary, a leading voice on the American political right since the 1980s, has died after suffering from lung cancer.

A spot on the Atlantic City Boardwalk where movie stars, athletes and rock stars used to party – and a future president honed his instincts for bravado and hype – has been reduced to a smoking pile of rubble.

Buckingham Palace has downplayed the seriousness of the 99-year-old’s condition.

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Japan’s treatment of women faces a reckoning. A decision on who will replace the 84-year-old male ousted because of sexist comments is expected within days.

When she complained, Jeffrey Epstein’s ex-girlfriend was made to clean bathrooms, her lawyer says in a letter of complaint.

Cases in India have been falling dramatically and uniformly across the country for months. But the detection of the more infectious variants comes amid some worrying but so far isolated outbreaks.

“Is our blood worth less than the blood of a German?“, asked a father who lost two sons in the 2009 tanker bombings near Kunduz. He expected the court to rule in his favour.

In Lincoln, Nebraska, a reading of minus 35 degrees Celsius shattered a record set in 1978 of minus 27.

Conservative Party leader Erin O’Toole said Canada should not be turning a blind eye to genocide.

The changes of a decade ago did not give Myanmar a perfect democracy. But it did pave the way for today’s young protesters: keenly aware of the past, social media-savvy, and resilient. They need the world to stand with them.

White House spokeswoman has also told reporters Joe Biden plans a call soon with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Trump’s vicious statement will exacerbate the rapidly deepening divisions within the Republican Party over whether to embrace or reject the former president.

Europe’s most active volcano has roared back into spectacular volcanic action.

Adam Kinzinger, a six-term Republican from Illinois, was one of the 10 GOP House members who joined Democrats to impeach Trump after the January 6 riot at the Capitol.

The daughter of Dubai’s powerful ruler tried to flee the country in 2018 only to be detained by commandos in a boat off India.

The exercise dubbed “Iran-Russia Maritime Security Belt 2021” is taking place in the northern part of Indian Ocean, spanning a stretch of about a 17,000 kilometres.

With no heat and no working stove, the couple and their 11-year-old daughter hunkered down in a makeshift bedroom fort made from nearly a dozen blankets.

The new charge may allow her to be held indefinitely without trial as part of an intensifying crackdown by authorities who seized power in a coup.

A Democratic congressman has filed a lawsuit accusing former president Donald Trump and lawyer Rudy Giuliani of conspiring to incite the violent riot that shook the US Capitol on January 6.

Sean Turnell’s peers will deliver a petition to the Myanmar embassy on Wednesday.

A Reuters reporter heard several blasts and saw a fire blazing for a few minutes in the vicinity of the airport. One security official said the total number of mortars fired was five. 

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The head of the Supreme Judicial Council said the ruling was “balanced” and consistent with Islamic and civil laws. He dismissed what he called “artificial and unjustified noise” on social media about the edict.

The sudden return of military rule and leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s renewed detention are the latest evidence of a far darker and more complicated reality.