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Ronan Harris of Snap was among the social media bosses called in to Downing Street by UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer

In meeting with senior figures

UK PM tells social media bosses to step up child online safety

Britain's Prince Harry and his wife Meghan meet staff members and young advocates during a visit to a Melbourne mental health engagement programme as part of their four-day tour of Australia

Actress turned royal

Meghan Markle claims to be 'most trolled person' in world

Family members and mourners gathered for funerals in the city of Kahramanmaras

Second such incident this week in the country

Teachers protest as Turkey buries school shooting victims

Mariam Zein (R) brings her son to a mobile health clinic run by charity Caritas Lebanon

Amid relentless attacks

In Lebanon shelters, women care for tiny babies, face pregnancy

Vincent Bollore has been likened to Australian media mogul Rupert Murdoch

Reshaping country's media landscape

French billionaire Bollore sparks turmoil at top publisher Grasset

Repsol said it is prepared to quickly increase oil production in Venezuela

Will sharply increase production

Repsol taking back control of Venezuelan oil assets

Luxembourg-based

Nutella maker says targeted in EU antitrust probe

So far, around 2,000 have made the switch to microbial solutions -- a fraction of the province's 100,000 rice farmers, but a start

Thai farmers pin hopes on microbes to end annual burning crisis

A protester is helped after police deployed pepper spray to disperse demonstrators taking part in a Pro-Palestinian rally against Israeli President Isaac Herzog's visit to Australia in Sydney on February 9, 2026

Legal provisions 'constitutionally impermissible'

Australian court overturns protest limits after Bondi Beach attack

The Strait of Hormuz, vital for world energy supplies, has become a key point of the US-Iranian negotiations

War in the Middle East: latest developments

TSMC is the world's biggest contract maker of chips

Massive global demand

AI demand drives chipmaker TSMC's net profit to fresh record

De Lëtzebuerger Ausseminister Xavier Bettel bei senger Arrivée zu Bréissel de 16. Mäerz 2026

'Good military music'

FM Xavier Bettel tackles Donald Trump with wit on BBC interview

Supporters of Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye hold a rally on February 24, 2025 in Nairobi, Kenya to demand his release

At least 54 countries

'Transnational repression' worsened last year: report

A woman walks past a mural depicting a football and the flag of Curacao in Willemstad, capital of the Dutch Caribbean island which is gripped by World Cup fever

Smallest country, by population, to qualify

Curacao, tiny island with big dreams of World Cup glory

Brazil's electoral court has imposed new regulations restricting chatbots from providing advice about who to vote for in upcoming elections

Could cause 'contamination' of October vote

Chatbots at the ballot box: AI skirts Brazil election rules

This handout photo taken and released by Giuliana Elakis on April 16, 2026 shows a fire at the Viva Oil Refinery in Geelong

Fuel supply fears after blaze tears through crucial Australian refinery

Airlines may soon be forced to cancel flights due to a lack of jet fuel

Risk grows each day

Threat of grounded planes nears as jet fuel supplies dwindle

An Afghan man scours for gold using the traditional gold-panning technique allowed by authorities

'We have created work for ourselves'

Afghans comb riverbed in search of gold dust

FIFA President Gianni Infantino attends an economic conference in Washington

Despite Middle East war

Iran participating in World Cup, FIFA president confirms

The Strait of Hormuz, vital for world energy supplies, has become a key point of the US-Iranian negotiations

War in the Middle East: latest developments

Director Coerte Voorhees (left) and producer John Voorhees premier the trailer of their film "As Deep as the Grave"

With family's consent

Val Kilmer returns via AI as filmmakers test Hollywood's red line

The killings have shocked Turkey, where school shootings are rare

Second attack in two days

Teenager kills nine, wounds 13 in Turkey school shooting

Police said two people approached the synagogue in north London and 'threw two bottles suspected to contain petrol' which did not ignite

Amid upsurge in antisemitic incidents

Police arrest two over London synagogue arson attempt

"Unregistered" Kurds, who have been stateless since a controversial 1962 census, have been flocking to registration centres across Syria

'We suffered greatly'

Syria's Kurds register for citizenship after decades of marginalisation

This handout from the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration taken and released on April 16, 2026 shows smoke from a building fire after a Russian strike in Dnipro

Child pulled from rubble

Strikes kill three in Ukraine, two in Russia, including children

Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez speaks during a press conference in Beijing on April 14, 2026

Bolsters image as left-wing hero

Trump turmoil sees Spain's Sanchez emerge as progressive star

Khushwant Singh, author of Maharaja in Denims and co-founder of AI-driven production house Intelliflicks Studios

Set for cinematic release this summer

India's 'Maharaja in Denims' stakes claim in AI film race

A supporter of Daniel Duggan, a former US Marines pilot accused of illegally training China's military, holds a placard outside the Federal Court of Australia in Canberra on April 16, 2026

US ex-Marine loses extradition appeal in China pilots case

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