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Stanislav Kogiku/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Canada banned TikTok on government-issued mobile devices on Monday over data security concerns, following a similar ban from the European Union last week. “The Government of Canada is committed to keeping government information secure,” Mona Fortier, the president of Canada’s treasury board, said in a statement. […]

PETER PARKS/AFP via Getty Images (HONG KONG) — Four family members including the ex-husband of murdered Hong Kong socialite influencer Abby Choi appeared in court on Monday, in a horrific case that has stunned the city. On Sunday police said they discovered remains that are believed to belong to the 28-year-old. The remains were found […]

Antonino D’Urso/KONTROLAB/LightRocket via Getty Images (CUTRO, Italy) — A least 58 migrants were killed and more than 81 were rescued Sunday when the human smuggling boat they were aboard slammed into the rocks off the coast of southern Italy and “disintegrated” just feet from the shoreline, officials said. Up to 150 migrants reportedly from Iran, […]

Halfpoint Images/Getty Images (LONDON) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said during his Jan. 5 nighttime address from Kyiv that he would speak directly to the Russian people. The war in Ukraine had been deadlier than Russian citizens were being told and Moscow officials “certainly do not value life and definitely do not seek peace,” he […]

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Many aid organizations withdrew their funding to Afghanistan after the Taliban implemented several regressive policies on Afghan women’s human rights in the final months of 2022. But the withdrawal of international aid from the country stands to harm the most vulnerable part of Afghanistan’s population: women and girls, a new […]

Manuel Augusto Moreno/Getty Images/STOCK (MAIDUGURI, Nigeria) — The world will watch with anticipation as Africa’s largest democracy votes for a new leader on Saturday. Nigeria’s 2023 presidential election — described as the nation’s most hotly contested since the end of military rule in 1999 — is taking place amid a backdrop of economic troubles and […]

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As Russia’s forces closed in on Ukraine a year ago, many anticipated its capital Kyiv would collapse in a matter of weeks, if not days. But while Washington has widely rejoiced in what has so far been an upset of historic proportions by the underdog Ukraine — boosted by its steadfast […]

Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A year ago, President Vladimir Putin plunged Russia into the war in Ukraine, pulling his country into a bloody military debacle and reigniting a global stand-off with Western countries. Nearly 200,000 Russian troops are estimated to have been killed or wounded in the past 12 months. Over […]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — When Russian tanks rolled into the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine nearly a year ago in a failed bid to take the capital, 14-year-old Dasha Pivtoratska and her family were driving through their village, Katyuzhanka, when soldiers started firing indiscriminately at their car. “The first shots hit the gas tank, then […]

Anton Petrus/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — One year after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine, both sides are still fighting for control of areas in eastern and southern Ukraine. Ukrainian troops have liberated nearly 30,000 square miles of their territory from Russian forces since the invasion began on Feb. 24, […]