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TikTok backers believe the wildly popular app provides livelihoods, paths to social change and a sense of community. Read more at straitstimes.com....

The scrutiny of some Big Tech and social media platforms is running high as TikTok's CEO faces grilling before lawmakers. Emma Lembke, 20, is among those taking action against what she sees as the harmful effects of social media on her generation....

Lombardy, MILAN Italian rice output is set to fall in 2023 as farmers facing a second year of drought reduce the land dedicated to the crop to the lowest in more than two decades, agricultural groups warn. Italy cultivates about 50 per cent of the rice pr...

The A-G said Netanyahu violated the law by saying he would get personally involved in a judicial overhaul plan. Read more at straitstimes.com....

ROME Pope Francis should take disciplinary action against German bishops who support same-sex unions and hold other "heretical" views, a top conservative cardinal said in an interview published on Friday. The German Catholic church is discussing a...

Plans for the counteroffensive come as Russia pushes forth its attempt to capture Bakhmut. Meanwhile, Medvedev has threatened that Russia might attack Kyiv or Lviv. DW has rounded up the latest....

The drone - called Unmanned Underwater Nuclear Attack Craft Haeil - was tested for 59 hours, KCNA reports, and Kim Jong Un was...

Citizens affected by climate change are suing the governments of more than 30 European countries. Read more at straitstimes.com....

Across various social media platforms, users have expressed their adoration for Mr Chew. Read more at straitstimes.com....

Serbia's customs authorities said on March 24 they discovered nine migrants hiding among aluminum rolls in a truck headed to Poland from Greece....

In the end it was neither beauty, nor gymnastic mating rituals that won the public over....

U.S. lawmakers on Thursday battered TikTok's chief executive about potential Chinese influence over the platform and said its short videos were damaging children's mental health, reflecting bipartisan concerns over the app's power over America...

There's a WHAT in my soup??In honour of Francophone Week, here are perfect French expressions that will give English-speakers a headache...

Charles III arrives in France on Sunday for his first state visit as king, but the planned celebrations of historic cross-Channel relations face potential disruption from protests over unpopular pension reforms....

North Korea claimed on Friday it had tested an underwater nuclear attack drone able to unleash a 'radioactive tsunami', as it blamed recent US-South Korea exercises for a deteriorating regional security situation....

China and the US are once again in a standoff over the question of sovereignty in the South China Sea. The US says its ship was asserting its maritime rights in the area....

Beijing said on Friday that it does not ask companies to hand over data gathered overseas, as TikTok faces calls for a ban in the United States.China "has never and will not require companies or individuals to collect or provide data located in a fore...

The asteroid will miss Earth by about 173,000km, a little less than half the distance to the Moon. Read more at straitstimes.com....

A day after being convicted of defamation, opposition leader Rahul Gandhi has been disqualified from India's parliament. Supporters of his Congress party have also gathered to protest....

Leaders of countries that use the single currency are meeting after the takeover of Credit Suisse and fears of further turmoil. The topic of persistently high inflation will also be on the agenda....

EU will host conference on illegal deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia, says EU chief...

Tunisia's populist president is trying to divide us using a white supremacist conspiracy from Europe....

Two important agreements appeared to be in hand before Biden even departed Washington. Canada will escalate its timeline for military upgrades to the North American Aerospace Defense Command and the two nations have reached an agreement to update rules fo...

'It wasn't flawed intelligence' that led to the war, says Bolton, a key proponent of the US invasion....

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) will establish an expert mission to examine the human rights situation in Belarus after a request by the United States and 37 other countries....

The warplanes were flown from Slovakia to Ukraine by Ukrainian pilots, with help from the Slovak air force....

Twenty years on from the US-led invasion, Marc Lamont Hill challenges the man tapped to oversee post-Saddam Iraq....

There have been more protests in Israel as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing coalition government passes the first of several laws as part of its contentious judicial overhaul....

Pyongyang's new underwater drone is intended to be capable of carrying out sneak attacks in enemy waters. As a test went ahead, North Korea's Kim Jong Un condemned joint US-South Korean drills....

Analyst says the overhaul of the 57 member-cabinet just months before the election is a 'deeply political shuffle'....

Russia's Justice Ministry has added blogger Ilya Varlamov and lawyer Pavel Chikov of the Agora legal defense organization to the "foreign agents" registry....

The bill is among numerous measures taken after a suspected Chinese spy balloon floated over the US....

China is threatening "serious consequences" after the U.S. Navy sailed a destroyer around the disputed Paracel Islands in the South China Sea for the second day in a row, in a move Beijing claims was a violation of its sovereignty and security...

The building, where King Charles III is set to be received next week, was set on fire Thursday evening....

The Pentagon launched precision airstrikes in response to the attack, which officials attributed to militants affiliated with Iran....

World Athletics has banned transgender women from competing in elite female track and field events....

Health-care teams in the U.K. are providing hospital-quality care for people in their homes to help ease systems facing a shortage of hospital beds. And while versions of these programs exist in Canada, some experts say we need more of them....

War, disasters, economic crises: Every year, millions of people around the world are forced to leave their homes. DW illustrates who is going where and why, who is taking in refugees, and who is sealing themselves off....

TikTok's CEO has fronted a hearing in the US and was grilled over the app's links with the Chinese government....

China says US destroyer warned off for second day, US Navy said its ship successfully challenged China maritime claims....

MARCH 17-23, 2023 From Cyclone Freddy's devastating impact in Malawi and protests in France against raising the retirement age, to fans celebrating with flares at a Premier League match in England,......

Saudi state television reports that the two countries are in talks to resume consular services....

BRUSSELS (AP) — The way Justyna Wydrzyska sees it, Ania was a victim of domestic violence just like she was. Another child and she'd be trapped. It was 2020. The pandemic lockdowns. Everyone worried......

Yemen: Amid hopes for peace, the maimed, starving and oppressed victims of the forgotten war that shows no sign of stopping...

A zebra escaped from a zoo in the South Korean capital Seoul and wandered the streets of a residential district for three hours before being caught and taken home....

A teacher in Los Angeles got sucked out of her classroom by powerful winds....

Netanyahu promises to press ahead with judicial changes, despite reports of defence minister's opposition....