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Japan approves additional sanctions against Russia over its war on Ukraine. The Cabinet approves imposing total export bans on 22 Russian military-related organizations. It also approved a list of 335 items that cannot be exported to Russia. Export restrictions will also be applied to 31 non-Russian groups that the government says helped Russia to divert restricted goods and evade sanctions. Japan’s additional sanctions and export restrictions are in line with the G7 attempt to prevent Russia from evading sanctions with help from third countries.

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Published on: 10/01/2025 | 00:00:00

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Meta’s use of fact-checking organisations will end abolished and the group will switch to a system of community notes instead. The move comes as tech executives brace for the arrival of incoming US President Donald Trump. Zuckerberg announced this week that Meta plans to roll this community note system out in the next coming months. Meta’s upcoming changes will take effect across its trio of major social media platforms. Facebook, Instagram and Threads are used by more than 3 billion people worldwide. Some experts see the move as politically motivated and could have negative implications. Twitter and Threads use third-party fact-checking organisations to verify authenticity and accuracy of content posted to each platform. These organisations evaluate content and flag misinformation for further scrutiny. Only Meta can remove content that violates its Community Standards and Ads policies. X’s Community Notes was piloted in 2021 and gained significant traction in 2023. The feature was designed to identify and highlight potentially misleading information on the platform. A Community Note typically provides a correction or clarification, frequently supported by a hyperlink to a reputable online source which can verify the information provided. Once approved by X as a Notes contributor, participants may rate other Notes as “Helpful” or “Not Helpful”. Meta has not outlined exactly how its community notes would work. Only those Notes which receive a final “Helpful” status are shown to all X users. There is debate about how well Community Notes work on X. Our mechanism tests reveal that this positive effect stems from consideration of users who had actively interacted with the misinformation (ie, observed influence),” Gao explained in the paper. Another research paper led by University of Luxembourg researchers published in April 2024 found the use of Community Notes reduced the spread of misleading posts by an average of 61.4 percent. The researchers examined 283 posts containing election claims that independent fact-checking organisations determined to be false or misleading. 209 out of 283 “misleading” posts in its sample were not being shown to all X users. The delay in moving a post to “helpful” status contributed to this. Fact-checking organisations have criticised the move, saying it is unnecessary and politically driven. Meta is deliberately aiming to placate the right wing as a second Trump presidency looms. Some experts in social media have cautioned that the change may open the door to an increase in misinformation appearing on Meta platforms. Others believe Meta may be pursuing favourable treatment from the Trump administration. Some big names in social media have actively welcomed the move. Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and who will lead Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) said, “This is cool” on a recent X post. Zuckerberg referred to other regions and countries in his video. “Europe has an ever-increasing number of laws, institutionalising censorship and making it difficult to build anything innovative there,” Zuckerberg said.

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Published on: 10/01/2025 | 04:08:15

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South Korean police question presidential security service chief. Corruption Investigation Office for High-Ranking Officials and police are planning a second attempt to bring Yoon into custody. Yoon made a short-lived declaration of martial law on Dec. 3. Constitutional Court has begun deliberating on whether to formally remove Yoon from office or reject the charges and reinstate him. There’s also speculation that police may attempt to detain Park and other leaders of the presidential security service before trying again to execute the warrant against Yoon. Park again criticized the efforts to detention Yoon, saying that the investigation should proceed in a manner “appropriate for the status of an incumbent president” Yoon’s lawyers accuse the police of trying to undermine the leadership of the presidential security service. The presidential security act mandates protection for Yoon, but does not authorize the service to block court-ordered detention. Some legal experts say the president’s action may have been illegal. Yoon would only comply with an arrest warrant issued by the Seoul Central District Court. They accuse the agency of deliberately choosing another court with an allegedly favorable judge.

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Published on: 10/01/2025 | 04:33:18

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Royal Cam's popularity exploded during the coronavirus pandemic. The 24-hour livestream of the birds' breeding season was established to raise awareness. Millions have watched the stream since it began in 2016. During January, incubation season, an albatross sits on an egg. About once every 10 days, the second bird in the pair returns from feeding at sea to relieve the parent looking after the nest. The past two breeding seasons were the birds’ most successful ever, with 33 chicks each year. Pillière said the death of a chick from ingesting plastic in 2023 had prompted her to drastically reduce her household’s plastic use. The royal albatross has also crept into her work as a sculptor of animals.

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Published on: 10/01/2025 | 06:19:44

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Methane gas explosion caused mine to collapse in remote area in southwest Pakistan. Rescuers have been carefully removing debris from mine for hours as part of rescue effort. None of the miners had been rescued yet, officials say.

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Published on: 10/01/2025 | 00:00:00

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Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna says the fires are some of the worst he’s ever seen. It adds to five other deaths from Eaton Fire, bringing the known death toll to seven. The Palisades and Eaton fires is the largest of six currently blazing across the city. All of the fires that have broken out across LA county area are located roughly 25 miles (40 km) north of downtown Los Angeles. At least five churches, a synagogue, seven schools, two libraries, and many boutiques, bars, restaurants, banks and grocery stores were destroyed. The damage is extensive, analysts believe it will take months, maybe years, for the city to rebuild to pre-fire levels.

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Published on: 10/01/2025 | 00:00:00

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The world has just experienced the first full year in which global temperatures exceeded 1.5C above pre-industrial times. The milestone was confirmed by the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) on Friday, which said the climate crisis is pushing the planet’s temperature to levels never before experienced by modern humans. Each month in 2024 was the warmest or second-warmest for that month since records began. July 10 was the hottest day recorded by humans, with the globe averaging 17.16 degrees Celsius (62.89 degrees Fahrenheit), Copernicus found. Britain’s Met Office confirmed 2024’s likely breach of 1.5C, while estimating a slightly lower average temperature rise of 1.53C for the year. United States scientists are also expected to publish their 2024 climate data on Friday. The amount of water vapour in the planet’s atmosphere reached a record high in 2024. But even as the costs of these disasters spiral, the political will to invest in curbing emissions has waned in some countries. US President-elect Donald Trump has called climate change a 'hoax'

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Published on: 10/01/2025 | 00:00:00

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The latest blaze, the Kenneth fire, broke out in West Hills, a neighbourhood in the San Fernando Valley. Nearly 180,000 people are under evacuation orders due to the fire, with another 200,000 residents subject to evacuation warnings. The Palisades and Eaton fires have destroyed about 5,000 structures. Joe Biden is set to be replaced by President-elect Donald Trump in the White House on January 20. Biden appealed to Congress to provide aid.

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Published on: 10/01/2025 | 04:43:28

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Trudeau remains prime minister until a new leader is chosen. The front runners for the Liberal leadership are former central banker Mark Carney and ex-Finance Minster Chrystia Freeland. Trump keeps calling Canada the 51st state. Freeland was Canada's point person when the U.S, Canada and Mexico redid its free trade deal during the first Trump administration. In 2012, Carney was named the first foreigner to serve as governor of the Bank of England since it was founded in 1694. The appointment of a Canadian won bipartisan praise in Britain after he served as the head of the central bank. Foreign-interference inquiry heard about foreigners voting in local nomination races. "Protecting the integrity of our democratic process, while still engaging as many people as possible," the party said in a statement.

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Published on: 10/01/2025 | 04:59:40

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Estonian minehunter EML Sakala has approached about 200 vessels in a week at sea. It is one of three Estonian navy ships that are part of stepped-up maritime patrols by NATO countries. The incidents are a test of resolve in the face of what are believed to be widespread sabotage attacks. The damage to the Estlink 2 did not disrupt service, although it drove up energy prices in the Baltic nations. The cable is about 90 miles (145 kilometers) long and is located at a depth of 90 meters (295 feet) at its deepest point. Ten Baltic Sea cables have been damaged since 2023, affecting Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Germany and Lithuania. In October 2023, a Chinese-registered ship was suspected of severing a gas pipeline and fiber-optic cable. That ship was not stopped and continued its journey. Of particular interest to the naval patrols is Russia’s shadow fleet of vessels. European authorities have acted more decisively in recent months to halt ships suspected of sabotage. Officials have stopped short of categorically pointing the finger at Moscow without ironclad proof. Finnish President Alexander Stubb and German Foreign Minister Annalenna Baerbock also suggested the similar incidents in the Baltic cannot be a coincidence. Merilo says the West must see the actions as building to the “next phase of escalation” by Russia. Joint Expeditionary Force agreed to cooperate more closely to counter Russia’s use of shadow ships. They said they had tasked maritime authorities with requesting proof of insurance from suspected ships sailing through northern Europe. Since then, the nations said they would use an AI-assisted computer program to help monitor and calculate the risk posed by each ship.

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Published on: 10/01/2025 | 00:00:00

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Jimmy Carter was honoured with a stated funeral and the National Cathedral in the US capital on Thursday. President-elect Donald Trump visited Carter’s casket, which laid in the middle of the Capitol Rotunda to pay his respects. US President Joe Biden was tasked with delivering the eulogy, less than two weeks before he leaves office. Jimmy Carter's casket was loaded once more on a plane after state service. The late president was due to receive one final honouring, a private funeral. Biden said he learned that “strength of character” is more important that titles or power.

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Published on: 10/01/2025 | 00:00:00

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Mara Corina Machado is free and “in a safe place” in a bizarre episode that capped a day of protests she led seeking to block President Nicolás Maduro from clinging to power. In a post on her official account on X, she said “I am now in... More determined than ever before to continue with you UNTIL THE END!”. Machado, 57, is a hard-liner and former lawmaker who stayed and fought against Maduro even after many of her allies among opposition leaders went into exile in the face of repression. In a last minute move, she backed unknown outsider, retired diplomat Edmundo González, who crushed maduro by a more than two-to-one margin. US President-elect Donald Trump has also weighed in, in a post on his own González has been in Spain in self-imposed exile since early September. He fled Venezuela following a month of hiding as Maduro's forces cracked down on dissent.

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Published on: 10/01/2025 | 05:04:41

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Nicolás Maduro will extend his increasingly repressive rule over Venezuela until 2031 when he is sworn in on Friday. On Thursday, aides to opposition leader Mara Corina Machado said she was briefly detained by security forces and coerced into recording videos. She had emerged from months of hiding to join the rally to demand that opposition candidate Edmundo González be reworn in as president. Leaders in the Americas and Europe condemned the government for the opposition collected tally sheets from more than 80% of electronic voting machines. The court reaffirmed Maduro’s victory without providing thorough evidence. But neither the council nor the ruling party produced any evidence that the opposition-published tallies had won. González says his son-in-law Rafael Tudares was kidnapped in Caracas. His daughter suggested the government was behind her husband's disappearance.

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Published on: 10/01/2025 | 00:00:00

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said it would scrap third-party fact-checking. In many ways, he cast the decision as reflecting the zeitgeist. The re-election of United States President-elect Donald Trump signalled a “cultural tipping point” towards free speech. Fact-checking efforts can have a positive effect on countering misinformation. The effect appears to be modest, not least due to the vast quantity of information online. A 2023 mega-study involving 33,000 participants in the US found that warning labels and digital literacy education enhanced the ability of participants to correctly rate headlines as true or false. Wihbey said the history of media is littered with new forms of journalism that came and went in response to changing societal, cultural and political circumstances. "Perhaps the fact-checking movement will be reinvented in new ways, but the precise media form and branding will change," he said.

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Published on: 10/01/2025 | 00:00:00

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Jesus Medina Ezaine spent 16 months in a Venezuelan military prison accused of crimes he said were related to his work as a photojournalist. But another prison stint seemed imminent, especially after the contested re-election of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. “The media is scared,” Medina said. “The Venezuelan regime does not tolerate any comments or information against them,” he added. He spent two months holed up in different locations in the capital Caracas. A wave of repression As many as 2,500 people were ultimately detained in the post-election protests, according to government statistics. Another 25 people were killed, in what independent investigators for the United Nations called “unprecedented levels of violence” A UN fact-finding mission announced earlier this month that at least 56 political opposition activists, 10 journalists and one human rights defender were among the arrested between August and December. "Maduro is not going to leave on his own, we must make him leave with the strength of a population that never gives up," Machado says. The Maduro government has ramped up security and deployed more than 1,200 military personnel to cities across the country. In turn, the government has also detained more than 12 human rights defenders, political activists, and relatives of opposition figures. "They will try to put an end to everything that they consider the opposition," he added. "What I have decided is that, no matter what, I’ll fight for my country"

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Published on: 10/01/2025 | 00:00:00

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Conflict is threatening cultural heritage through intentional destruction, looting, and damage during wars. Both conflict and neglect result in the loss of irreplaceable history, traditions, and cultural identity.

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Published on: 09/01/2025 | 00:00:00

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The United States House of Representatives votes in favor of a bill to sanction the International Criminal Court (ICC) in retaliation for its arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant. The bill now heads to the Senate, where a Republican majority was sworn in earlier this month. It proposes sanctions for any foreigner who helps the ICC in its attempts to investigate, detain or prosecute a US citizen. United Nations experts denounce Israel’s methods in Gaza as “consistent with the characteristics of genocide” US legislators threatened retaliation against the ICC. In a letter sent to outgoing US President Joe Biden in May, dozens of human rights groups urged him to reject calls for punitive action. The ICC, based in The Hague, is a permanent court that can prosecute individuals for war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide and the crime of aggression. Israel has been a member since 2015, and the court first announced an investigation of crimes committed there by both Israeli and Hamas officials in 2019. The US has supported the court at times, for example, when the ICC’s top prosecutor sought an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin over alleged war crimes in Ukraine.

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Published on: 09/01/2025 | 00:00:00

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Elon Musk live-streamed his conversation with AfD candidate Alice Weidel via his social media platform X on Thursday. More than 190,000 X accounts tuned into the chat, which saw Musk introducing weidel as “the leading candidate to run Germany”. The United States technology billionaire is set to have a role in the administration of Donald Trump. Musk and Weidel agreed that Germany was hamstrung by a “crazy” energy policy, excessive bureaucracy and uncontrolled immigration. “People love to censor things they don’t agree with,” said Musk. Meloni's government is weighing up a possible communications security contract relying on Starlink, part of Musk’s SpaceX business. Italy is facing a dilemma over how to protect its sensitive communications.

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Published on: 09/01/2025 | 21:00:49

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On Jan. 9, 1964, students protested over not being allowed to fly Panama’s flag. The protests expanded to general opposition to the U.S. Presence in Panama. This year the holiday coincided with Carter’s funeral in Washington.

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Published on: 10/01/2025 | 00:00:00

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Since its opening on 21 December 2024, the Harbin Ice and Snow World has welcomed 846,200 visitors, an increase of 24.7% compared to last year.

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Published on: 09/01/2025 | 18:46:50

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Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani is travelling to Syria on Friday to encourage the country's transition. Tajani presided over a meeting in Rome of foreign ministry officials from five countries. The aim is to coordinate the various post-Assad initiatives, he said. From 2011 until Assad’s downfall, Syria’s uprising and civil war killed an estimated 500,000 people. The U.S. Has gradually lifted some penalties since Assad departed Syria for protection in Russia. Biden administration dropped a $10 million bounty it had offered for the capture of a Syrian rebel leader whose forces led the ouster of Assad last month.

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Published on: 09/01/2025 | 00:00:00

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Maria Corina Machado is arrested after re-appearing in public for the first time in months a day before the third inauguration of President Nicolas Maduro. She has been in hiding in recent months, following a government crackdown on dissent in the wake of the contested July 28 presidential election. Alessandro Rampietti said Machado defied previous threats and attempts to detain her. “The government has repeatedly promised that they would arrest her if she tried to show up at one of these protests”. There was a relatively small turnout for Thursday’s protests as riot police were deployed in force.

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Published on: 09/01/2025 | 00:00:00

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A New York Court of Appeals judge issued a brief order on Thursday declining to grant a hearing to Trump’s legal team. That leaves the US Supreme Court as likely the president-elect’s last option to prevent a sentencing hearing from taking place as scheduled on Friday. Trump was found guilty in late May on 34 counts of falsifying business documents related to hush-money payments made to an adult film performer. In May, he became the first US president ever convicted of a crime. He has continued to reject any wrongdoing and says he is victim of political “witch hunt” Earlier this week, Trump’s lawyers asked the Supreme Court for an immediate stay of the sentencing.

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Published on: 09/01/2025 | 00:00:00

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Jude Bellingham and Rodrygo strike to earn Real Madrid a 3-0 win over Mallorca. Madrid have the chance to earn revenge for their heavy Clasico defeat in LaLiga in October. Real Madrid made the early running against last season's Copa del Rey runners-up. Kylian Mbappe appealed for a penalty after going down under pressure from Dani Rodriguez. Madrid lost Aurelien Tchouameni early in the second half after he hurt his head. Madrid must wait on the availability of Luka Modric for Sunday’s final. Modric became Madrid’s oldest goalscorer when he netted last week against Valencia in LaLiga. Mallorca struggled to find a way back in and ended up contributing.

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Published on: 09/01/2025 | 00:00:00

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Debris hit a tram and a minibus carrying passengers. Cars and taxis were reduced to ashes. Thursday declared a day of mourning in the Zaporizhia region.

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