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June 8 (Reuters) – Dozens of suspected global scam compounds in Cambodia are still in operation despite a months-long crackdown by authorities, Amnesty International said in a report on Monday. Of 86 sites identified as scam centres, the government had intervened at only 24 locations, the U.K.-based human rights group said in the 176-page report. …
MADRID (AP) — Pope Leo XIV called Monday for newfound respect for the rights of migrants and international law during an address to the Spanish parliament that signaled a new level of acceptance of the Catholic Church in the public sphere in the overwhelmingly secular country. In the first papal address to the Spanish legislature, …
NEW DELHI, June 8 (Reuters) – India’s shipping ministry said on Monday that a fire was reported on a oil tanker with 24 Indian seafarers on board, adding that all of them were safe. Indian TV channels said that the vessel on fire was located off the coast of Oman. (Reporting by Hritam Mukherjee, writing …
Doctors are jumping the gun to prescribe a medication lacking FDA approval that has gone viral on social media. “Why are we waiting?” one physician asked.
Latvia’s military said it shot down a drone that entered the country’s airspace on Monday — the latest in a series of drone-related incidents in eastern European NATO countries linked directly to Russia’s ongoing, full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The Latvian military said in a social media post that NATO allied fighter jets “successfully shot down …
GDANSK, June 8 (Reuters) – Australia in December became the world’s first country to ban social media for children under 16, blocking them from platforms including TikTok, Alphabet’s YouTube and Meta’s Instagram and Facebook. Below is a summary of what countries and companies are doing to regulate access to social media amid mounting concerns over …
June 8 (Reuters) – Peru’s conservative presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori kept a slight lead on Monday over her leftist rival in a runoff election, with 90% of the votes counted, an official tally showed. Fujimori, the daughter of hardline former President Alberto Fujimori, secured 50.55% of the votes, while leftist congressman Roberto Sanchez, who has …
MUZAFFARABAD, June 8 (Reuters) – Clashes in Pakistan-administered Kashmir ahead of a protest called for Tuesday killed 11 people and injured more than 70 as police and paramilitary forces sought to scatter a group of protesters from a banned alliance of civil society groups. Police said the protesters of the Joint Awami Action Committee, which …
PRISTINA, June 8 (Reuters) – Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti called for cooperation from other parties to end 18 months of political deadlock after his Vetevendosje party won a parliamentary election on Sunday but failed to secure enough votes to govern alone. The tiny Balkan state wants to join the European Union, and Brussels says …
LONDON, June 8 (Reuters) – Big tech firms operating in Britain must introduce safety measures on children’s phones to prevent them from circulating nude images or they will face legislation forcing them to do so, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday. Under the new plans, firms like Apple and Google should build or activate …