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The United States took a significant step on Tuesday towards a ban on the popular TikTok app via a White House-backed bill, amid growing Western distrust of the Chinese social network. US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said in a statement that he “welcomed” a bill tabled the same day …

A brother and sister born 126 days before their mother’s due date in Canada were named “the world’s most premature twins” by the Guinness Book of World Records on Saturday, their first birthday. This is an atypical record, to say the least. The duration of a pregnancy is usually nine …

Beijing said on Wednesday that the FBI was undermining its credibility after comments by its director saying that a laboratory accident in the Chinese city of Wuhan is “very likely” at the origin of the Covid-19 pandemic. FBI boss Christopher Wray’s statements to Fox News on Tuesday came two days …

Billionaire Elon Musk called the American media “racist” on Sunday after several newspapers decided to stop the publication of the comic strip “Dilbert”, the author of which compared in a video the black population to a “group of hate”. “For a very long time the American media was racist towards …

The White House in the United States on Monday ordered federal agencies across the country to ban the use of the TikTok app from their devices. They will have to ensure that their devices are no longer equipped with the application of videos within 30 days, ordered Monday the Office …

A US military Black Hawk helicopter crashed in the southern United States of America on Wednesday, killing both occupants, local authorities said. Around 3 p.m., a Black Hawk aircraft belonging to the Tennessee Air National Guard was conducting a training flight near a highway and another road, the Tennessee National …

An 18-year-old Ghanaian woman residing in Royston, United Kingdom has been charged after a stabbing incident on the Dog Kennel Hill Estate, in South London, reports said. The suspect accused another woman of sleeping with her boyfriend, resulting in the stabbing, after which she poured hot water on the wounded …

The police have arrested a 28-year-old woman after her daughter wrote a story in her kindergarten class about her shooting at her father during a fight at home in Tennessee, USA, reports said. The story paints a vivid picture of the dispute. “Mother and father got into a fight. Mum …

American billionaire Elon Musk, owner of SpaceX, which is in charge of the Starlink satellite Internet access system, has confirmed that Kyiv can no longer use this network for the control of combat drones. Already icy, relations between Elon Musk and the Ukrainian government are likely to strain a little …

An 82-year-old woman, pronounced dead in a New York nursing home, was found breathing three hours later at the funeral home where she had been transferred on Saturday. After noticing that the octogenarian was still alive, she was transferred to the hospital, according to a police statement relayed by CBS …