29.11.2024 8:45 Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Friday that social media platforms now have a responsibility to ensure the safety of children, after the country's parliament passed a world-first bill banning children under 16 from the services.
The legislation will require social media companies to "take reasonable steps" to prevent those under 16 from creating or holding an account on platforms such as TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Reddit and X, or face fines of up to AU$49.5 million ($32 million).
Read full story here29.11.2024 8:48 Nine children to be returned to their families in Russia and Ukraine in the latest humanitarian exchange.29.11.2024 8:58 India's capital New Delhi is swamped by smog, and air pollution kills 2 million Indians a year. But some suffer more. 29.11.2024 8:59 A Beijing court on Friday gave a seven-year jail term to a former senior editor at a major Chinese newspaper affiliated with the ruling Communist Party who had been accused of leaking information to Japanese diplomats, sources familiar with the matter said.
Dong Yuyu, a former deputy head of the Guangming Daily editorial department, had pleaded not guilty to the charge. He was detained in February 2022 after meeting with a Japanese Embassy official in Beijing and was indicted in March last year for alleged espionage, the sources said.
Read full story here29.11.2024 9:33 Polls open across the country on Friday. Fine Gael, whose leader Simon Harris called a snap election earlier this month, held a solid lead entering the campaign. Harris replaced his predecessor, Leo Varadkar, in April.29.11.2024 9:33 One independent MP calls bill – which passed on Thursday – a ‘1970 solution for a 2024 problem’Social media company Meta has accused the Australian government of rushing to introduce an under-16 social media ban without properly considering the evidence and voices of young people.But Australian politicians who supported the world-first legislation argue it is necessary to ensure another generation of teenagers do not experience “as much damaging content” in years to come. Continue reading... ... 29.11.2024 9:3829.11.2024 10:00 Recent attack on trucks carrying flour has deprived starving civilians of food as territory teeters on edge of famineAid officials and witnesses have described the chaotic and violent moments when a huge convoy carrying enough flour to bake bread for two-thirds of the population of Gaza for a week was looted this month.The officials made clear the attack was undertaken by groups of criminals, not civilians who were now being deprived of food in a territory close to famine. Continue reading... ... 29.11.2024 10:00 Vote expected on Friday afternoon, as those running campaigns for and against say it is too close to callMPs are hours away from deciding whether to legalise assisted dying for those with less than six months to live, in a knife-edge historic vote.The private member’s bill, brought by the Labour backbencher Kim Leadbeater, will be debated from 9.30am on Friday in the House of Commons with a vote expected at about 2.30pm. Continue reading... ... 29.11.2024 10:00 Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin all on about 20% in opinion polls after short, sharp campaignIreland’s election: the parties, the issues and the votingIreland goes to the polls on Friday with voters expected to choose either a second term for the incumbent centre-right coalition or a left-leaning rainbow coalition led by a resurgent Sinn Féin, the former political wing of the IRA.Opinion polls show a dead heat, with the two main government parties – Fine Gael, led by the taoiseach, Simon Harris, and Fianna Fáil, led by the former PM Micheál Martin – and Sinn Féin all hovering at about 20% of the vote. Continue reading... ... 29.11.2024 10:00 ‘Trees of hope’ will be planted across the UK, including at a prison and a children’s hospital, in National Trust schemeSaplings from the felled Sycamore Gap tree are to be planted across the UK, including next to one of London’s most famous roads, at a rural category C prison and at a motor neurone disease centre opening in the name of the late rugby league star Rob Burrow.The National Trust on Friday announced the recipients of 49 saplings it has called “trees of hope”. Continue reading... ... 29.11.2024 10:00 MPs will have their first chance to vote on the hugely emotive issue. Here’s what will happen on the day and afterwardsMPs will get their first chance to vote on the proposed bill to legalise assisted dying on Friday, with potentially a very close result being predicted over what is a hugely emotive subject. Here is what will happen on the day, and beyond. Continue reading... ... 29.11.2024 10:00 The film adaptation of Rachel Yoder’s 2021 novel offers a whip-smart depiction of motherhood – and some icky body horror. Its director and star talk awful husbands, menstrual blood and canine transformationI have to be careful describing the film Nightbitch. Not because of spoilers, but because there is a very real danger I will walk through it frame by frame. And not because it’s flawless in its depiction of motherhood in the early years – what it does to the self, to relationships, to the body, to one’s orientation to the world. Rather, because I have never seen it told on screen, from the mother’s point of view, with anything like this accuracy.“Becoming a mother is such an overidealised moment in culture,” says its director, Marielle Heller, words tumbling over those of her star, Amy Adams, when I meet them in London. “And then when you go through it, you’re like: ‘What?! This is not what I expected.’ And then you have a sense of failure, because you assume that everybody else is having the idealised version and that there’s something off with you.” Continue reading... ... 29.11.2024 10:00 Apps and booklets are offering advice on how to build a bunker, stockpile food and live without electricity in case the worst happensGermany is developing an app to help people locate the nearest bunker in the event of attack. Sweden is distributing a 32-page pamphlet titled If Crisis or War Comes. Half a million Finns have already downloaded an emergency preparedness guide.If the prospect of a broader conflict in Europe seems remote for many, some countries at least are taking it seriously – and, in the term used by Germany’s defence minister, Boris Pistorius, taking steps to get populations kriegsfähig: ready for war. Continue reading... ... 29.11.2024 10:01 In a northeast neighborhood of the capital city, deprivation and affluence exist side-by-side, and many voters feel frustrated by the status quo.29.11.2024 10:08 These were the key developments on the 1,009th day of the Russia-Ukraine war.29.11.2024 10:14 A Chinese national living in Japan on Friday admitted to his involvement in a graffiti incident at the war-linked Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo in May.
Jiang Zhuojun, 29, pleaded guilty at the Tokyo District Court to charges of damaging property and disrespecting a place of worship, and said the motive behind his actions was not related to history issues.
Read full story here29.11.2024 10:24 Dong Yuyu, who has written articles critical of the Communist Party, was arrested in 2022 while having lunch with a Japanese diplomat.29.11.2024 10:28 Israel said it had targeted militants headed to a rocket facility, but neither Israel nor Hezbollah seemed keen to immediately return to full-scale fighting.29.11.2024 10:39 The holiday season seems to get real with the Christmas tree lighting ceremony at Rockefeller Center in New York City every year.29.11.2024 11:00 L’équipe de France à 7, avec un nouvel entraîneur Benoît Baby et des petits nouveaux, retrouve ce week-end le circuit mondial à l’occasion de la première étape aux Émirats arabes unis.29.11.2024 11:00 A big-budget holiday film with a strong antifascist message? “Wicked” is not what we expected.29.11.2024 11:05 Un mois après les législatives remportées par le parti au pouvoir Rêve géorgien et dénoncées par l’opposition comme entachées d’irrégularités, des milliers de personnes se sont rassemblées à Tbilissi et dans d’autres villes de Géorgie.29.11.2024 11:14 BREAKING NEWS: Over 3,000 Toshiba group staff apply for early retirement program
==KyodoRead full story here29.11.2024 11:15 The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News.
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Read full story here29.11.2024 11:21 Le Français âgé aujourd’hui de 60 ans a été condamné à mort en 2007 pour un trafic de drogue qu’il a toujours contesté, dans un pays où la législation antidrogue est l’une des plus sévères au monde.29.11.2024 11:3329.11.2024 11:38 Une action en justice avait été entamée par l’association Familles rurales en 2021. La cour d’appel a estimé que la promesse de Free d’offrir «un débit jusqu’à trois fois plus rapide que la 4G» était trompeuse.29.11.2024 11:4029.11.2024 11:4429.11.2024 11:47 Jakarta is in talks with three countries, including France, over the return of several prisoners to their countries, according to the Indonesian justice minister.29.11.2024 11:57 The State of Palestine is recognised as a sovereign nation by 146 countries, representing 75 percent of UN members. Страницы: 711712713714715716717718719720721722723724725726727728729730731732733734735736737738739740741742743744745746747748749750751
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Friday that social media platforms now have a responsibility to ensure the safety of children, after the country's parliament passed a world-first bill banning children under 16 from the services.
The legislation will require social media companies to "take reasonable steps" to prevent those under 16 from creating or holding an account on platforms such as TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Reddit and X, or face fines of up to AU$49.5 million ($32 million).
Read full story here
A Beijing court on Friday gave a seven-year jail term to a former senior editor at a major Chinese newspaper affiliated with the ruling Communist Party who had been accused of leaking information to Japanese diplomats, sources familiar with the matter said.
Dong Yuyu, a former deputy head of the Guangming Daily editorial department, had pleaded not guilty to the charge. He was detained in February 2022 after meeting with a Japanese Embassy official in Beijing and was indicted in March last year for alleged espionage, the sources said.
Read full story here
Polls open across the country on Friday. Fine Gael, whose leader Simon Harris called a snap election earlier this month, held a solid lead entering the campaign. Harris replaced his predecessor, Leo Varadkar, in April.
One independent MP calls bill – which passed on Thursday – a ‘1970 solution for a 2024 problem’Social media company Meta has accused the Australian government of rushing to introduce an under-16 social media ban without properly considering the evidence and voices of young people.But Australian politicians who supported the world-first legislation argue it is necessary to ensure another generation of teenagers do not experience “as much damaging content” in years to come. Continue reading... ... 
Recent attack on trucks carrying flour has deprived starving civilians of food as territory teeters on edge of famineAid officials and witnesses have described the chaotic and violent moments when a huge convoy carrying enough flour to bake bread for two-thirds of the population of Gaza for a week was looted this month.The officials made clear the attack was undertaken by groups of criminals, not civilians who were now being deprived of food in a territory close to famine. Continue reading... ... 
Vote expected on Friday afternoon, as those running campaigns for and against say it is too close to callMPs are hours away from deciding whether to legalise assisted dying for those with less than six months to live, in a knife-edge historic vote.The private member’s bill, brought by the Labour backbencher Kim Leadbeater, will be debated from 9.30am on Friday in the House of Commons with a vote expected at about 2.30pm. Continue reading... ... 
Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin all on about 20% in opinion polls after short, sharp campaignIreland’s election: the parties, the issues and the votingIreland goes to the polls on Friday with voters expected to choose either a second term for the incumbent centre-right coalition or a left-leaning rainbow coalition led by a resurgent Sinn Féin, the former political wing of the IRA.Opinion polls show a dead heat, with the two main government parties – Fine Gael, led by the taoiseach, Simon Harris, and Fianna Fáil, led by the former PM Micheál Martin – and Sinn Féin all hovering at about 20% of the vote. Continue reading... ... 
‘Trees of hope’ will be planted across the UK, including at a prison and a children’s hospital, in National Trust schemeSaplings from the felled Sycamore Gap tree are to be planted across the UK, including next to one of London’s most famous roads, at a rural category C prison and at a motor neurone disease centre opening in the name of the late rugby league star Rob Burrow.The National Trust on Friday announced the recipients of 49 saplings it has called “trees of hope”. Continue reading... ... 
MPs will have their first chance to vote on the hugely emotive issue. Here’s what will happen on the day and afterwardsMPs will get their first chance to vote on the proposed bill to legalise assisted dying on Friday, with potentially a very close result being predicted over what is a hugely emotive subject. Here is what will happen on the day, and beyond. Continue reading... ... 
The film adaptation of Rachel Yoder’s 2021 novel offers a whip-smart depiction of motherhood – and some icky body horror. Its director and star talk awful husbands, menstrual blood and canine transformationI have to be careful describing the film Nightbitch. Not because of spoilers, but because there is a very real danger I will walk through it frame by frame. And not because it’s flawless in its depiction of motherhood in the early years – what it does to the self, to relationships, to the body, to one’s orientation to the world. Rather, because I have never seen it told on screen, from the mother’s point of view, with anything like this accuracy.“Becoming a mother is such an overidealised moment in culture,” says its director, Marielle Heller, words tumbling over those of her star, Amy Adams, when I meet them in London. “And then when you go through it, you’re like: ‘What?! This is not what I expected.’ And then you have a sense of failure, because you assume that everybody else is having the idealised version and that there’s something off with you.” Continue reading... ... 
Apps and booklets are offering advice on how to build a bunker, stockpile food and live without electricity in case the worst happensGermany is developing an app to help people locate the nearest bunker in the event of attack. Sweden is distributing a 32-page pamphlet titled If Crisis or War Comes. Half a million Finns have already downloaded an emergency preparedness guide.If the prospect of a broader conflict in Europe seems remote for many, some countries at least are taking it seriously – and, in the term used by Germany’s defence minister, Boris Pistorius, taking steps to get populations kriegsfähig: ready for war. Continue reading... ... 
In a northeast neighborhood of the capital city, deprivation and affluence exist side-by-side, and many voters feel frustrated by the status quo.
A Chinese national living in Japan on Friday admitted to his involvement in a graffiti incident at the war-linked Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo in May.
Jiang Zhuojun, 29, pleaded guilty at the Tokyo District Court to charges of damaging property and disrespecting a place of worship, and said the motive behind his actions was not related to history issues.
Read full story here
Dong Yuyu, who has written articles critical of the Communist Party, was arrested in 2022 while having lunch with a Japanese diplomat.
Israel said it had targeted militants headed to a rocket facility, but neither Israel nor Hezbollah seemed keen to immediately return to full-scale fighting.
The holiday season seems to get real with the Christmas tree lighting ceremony at Rockefeller Center in New York City every year.
L’équipe de France à 7, avec un nouvel entraîneur Benoît Baby et des petits nouveaux, retrouve ce week-end le circuit mondial à l’occasion de la première étape aux Émirats arabes unis.
A big-budget holiday film with a strong antifascist message? “Wicked” is not what we expected.
Un mois après les législatives remportées par le parti au pouvoir Rêve géorgien et dénoncées par l’opposition comme entachées d’irrégularités, des milliers de personnes se sont rassemblées à Tbilissi et dans d’autres villes de Géorgie.
The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News.
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Read full story here
Le Français âgé aujourd’hui de 60 ans a été condamné à mort en 2007 pour un trafic de drogue qu’il a toujours contesté, dans un pays où la législation antidrogue est l’une des plus sévères au monde.
Une action en justice avait été entamée par l’association Familles rurales en 2021. La cour d’appel a estimé que la promesse de Free d’offrir «un débit jusqu’à trois fois plus rapide que la 4G» était trompeuse.
Jakarta is in talks with three countries, including France, over the return of several prisoners to their countries, according to the Indonesian justice minister.