Taiwan says it will block access to popular Chinese social media app RedNote or Xiaohongshu for one year following concerns over online shopping scams. The island’s Criminal Investigation Bureau said Thursday it detected more than 1,700 fraud cases on the app since last year, with total losses worth more than NT$247m (£5.9m; $7.9m), local media...
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Photo News: Family Of Badly Injured National Guardsman Andrew Wolfe Shoot By Afghan Immigrant Near White House Visit Trump At Oval Office
President Trump: ““The great family of Andrew Wolfe — Our wonderful National Guardsman who was badly injured protecting the Capital of the United States of America. “He is in the process of healing. His parents, brother, and all of his friends are praying. I just met them in the Oval Office — They are fantastic...
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US President Participate In Peace Deal Signing Between Rwanda And Congo In Washington To End One Of The Longest Running Conflicts In The World
President Trump joins President Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and President Kagame of Rwanda in signing the Washington Accords, ending the decades-long war between the two nations. “For more than 30 years, one of the worst conflicts on earth has been raging in Eastern Congo. Millions and millions of people have been tragically killed… many administrations...
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Addresses Bribery And Corruption Charges Level Against Him In Court
Israeli Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu: “…I am accused of receiving positive media coverage from a second-rate website. In 250 years of liberal democracy, no one has been charged with positive media coverage. “This is called bribery, but in court it turned out that I had negative and hostile coverage. Two years ago the judges said...
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Czech Populist Billionaire Andrej Babiš To Move Business To A Trust To Become Prime Minister
Populist billionaire Andrej Babiš said on Thursday he would get rid of his major businesses by moving them to an independent trust in order to be able to become the prime minister again. Babiš said he believed the move would help him avoid a conflict of interest that could arise from his private dealings and his political...
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Iraq Retracts A Terror Designation It Imposed On Lebanon’s Hezbollah And Yemen’s Houthis
Iraq’s government on Thursday retracted a terror designation for Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group and Yemen’s Houthi rebels, just weeks after imposing the measure it now says was a mistake. The government’s retraction came hours after reports first circulated about the designation, which was an error made “before reviewing,” according to a statement. The initial decision, published in the...