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France set to ban social media for children under 15 in EU first

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-07-22T05:15:03+00:00

Kids under 15 years old won’t be able to create new accounts from September before a full ban comes into effect in January for existing profiles

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Australia news live: Origin Energy investigating potential data breach that could affect millions

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-07-22T05:13:14+00:00

Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe New South Wales premier, Chris Minns, says the state’s Labor party is under threat from One Nation and “we’ve got to fight for those votes”.Appearing on ABC Radio National this morning, Minns was asked if One Nation was a “racist party”. He said people who had concerns about the levels of immigration weren’t necessarily racist but some of the things Pauline Hanson had said were.Certainly some of the things Pauline Hanson says are definitely racist, when she said there’s no such thing as a good Muslim. I mea

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Что известно об атаке дронов на склады Wildberries в Краснодаре и Невинномысске

Source: Vedomosti – All Articles · Published: 2026-07-22T05:11:40+00:00

В ночь на 22 июля украинские беспилотники вновь атаковали логистические центры Wildberries. Целями стали объекты в Краснодаре и Невинномысске. Персонал эвакуирован, по предварительным данным есть пострадавшие. В регионе зафиксированы падения обломков на жилые дома и возгорание на предприятии в Армавире. Минобороны России, в свою очередь, сообщило об ударе по логистическому центру «Новой Почты» в Одессе и портовой инфраструктуре ВСУ. «Ведомости» собрали основное об ударах.

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Alleged rape victim ‘could have done a lot better’ if she had made up claims against well-connected Melbourne man, court told

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-07-22T05:07:54+00:00

Prosecutor tells court that ‘gaps or inconsistencies’ in the woman’s account ‘enhances her credibility’, but the defence maintains she is lyingGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA woman who accused a well-connected Melbourne man of rape “could have done a much better job” if she was inventing the story for money, a Melbourne court has heard.The man, who cannot be named, faces two counts of rape and one count of sexual assault, and has pleaded not guilty in Victoria’s county court. Continue reading...

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Paras Defence's semiconductor unit to set up $644-million chip packaging facility

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-07-22T05:07:34+00:00

Paras Semiconductors has inked an agreement with the MP government’s ‌department of science ​and technology to jointly set up an ⁠outsourced semiconductor assembly and test facility in the ‌Indore-Ujjain region

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Brittany Higgins accuses Pauline Hanson of victim-blaming for calling domestic violence a ‘two-way street’

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-07-22T05:03:41+00:00

One Nation leader criticised by advocates after telling women being abused: ‘don’t put up with it’Pauline Hanson has described domestic violence as “wrong” but a “two-way street”, and that women being abused should not put up with it, drawing condemnation from advocates who have accused the One Nation leader of victim-blaming.On Wednesday, Hanson told radio station 4BC domestic violence in Australia was a scourge, but that society was under “so much pressure”, when asked to call out the issue. Continue reading...

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Iran’s Neighbors Long for a Deal, Any Deal, to End the War

Source: New York Times - World · Published: 2026-07-22T05:02:40+00:00

Business owners in Pakistan are getting impatient for a chance to finally trade goods and oil along their long shared border with Iran.

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Iran’s foreign minister describes moment of attack that killed Khamenei

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-07-22T05:00:07+00:00

Abbas Araghchi says he has kept on the move since being pulled from rubble after strike on first day of warIran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, has described how he was pulled from the rubble of a leadership compound after the US-Israeli airstrike that killed the country’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, on the first day of the war, and has survived since by constantly moving around the capital, Tehran, by car.In an interview with the Iranian journalist Javad Mogouyi, Araghchi confirmed Israel and the US had accurate intelligence on the location of Khamenei and other officials, enabling them

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Lack of defibrillators could put 16m at risk of death by cardiac arrest in England and Wales

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-07-22T05:00:06+00:00

Exclusive: Research shows millions live more than a 1km round trip from 24/7 accessible deviceMore than 16 million people in England and Wales risk dying from a cardiac arrest because they live farther than a 1km round trip from the nearest 24/7 defibrillator, according to exclusive research. Analysis of publicly available defibrillators by the Heart Restart campaign found that in England and Wales alone, 35 million people – more than half the population – do not live within the recommended three- to five-minute brisk walk of a defibrillator. Of these, about half live more than a 1km round tr

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«Рынок трансграничных переводов сейчас похож на игру «поймай крота»

Source: Vedomosti – All Articles · Published: 2026-07-22T05:00:00+00:00

Санкции не разрушили для Т-банка международные платежи, но заставили выстроить децентрализованную сеть из сотен каналов – от переводов по номеру телефона до оплаты по QR-коду за границей. Вице-президент Т-банка Сергей Хромов, который отвечает за ключевые экосистемные продукты, рассказал «Ведомостям», как банку удалось восстановить трансграничные переводы, почему не советует пользоваться сервисом аренды карты, какое место в расчетах займут крипта и цифровые кошельки и почему уже через четыре года доля банковских карт в оплате упадет до 20%.

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US President Trump outlines tariff timeline for generic drugs shipped into the US

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-07-22T04:51:38+00:00

In a social media post, Tump said generic drugs would attract zero tariffs for a year, followed by a 100% tariff next year and 200% after that, with the aim to get companies to set up manufacturing facilities in the US

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EN DIRECT, guerre en Ukraine : Volodymyr Zelensky nomme Mykhaïlo Drapaty commandant en chef de l’armée après le limogeage d’Oleksandr Syrsky

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-07-22T04:51:11+00:00

Plusieurs jours de manifestations de grande ampleur à Kiev et dans d’autres villes du pays avaient réclamé la démission de M. Syrsky, à qui ses détracteurs reprochent de faire peu de cas des pertes humaines. Il est remplacé par le populaire commandant des forces interarmées, Mykhaïlo Drapaty.

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EN DIRECT, guerre en Ukraine : Volodymyr Zelensky annonce un remaniement à la tête de l’armée ukrainienne après plusieurs jours de manifestations

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-07-22T04:51:06+00:00

Les manifestants réclamaient le départ d’Oleksandr Syrsky, commandant en chef de l’armée, qui a été acté mardi soir par le président ukrainien. Il est remplacé par le populaire commandant des forces interarmées, Mykhaïlo Drapaty.

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Rebel Wilson wins defamation case brought by co-star after bitter dispute

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-07-22T04:50:03+00:00

Judge finds Wilson did not defame Charlotte MacInnes, lead actor in Pitch Perfect star’s directorial debut The DebFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAfter a blistering dispute that spanned continents and years, Hollywood A-lister Rebel Wilson has been found not to have defamed her co-star in a series of social media posts.The Pitch Perfect star was sued by Australian actor Charlotte MacInnes, who played the lead role in Wilson’s directorial debut film The Deb. Continue reading...

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Yen slides past 163 mark to fresh 40-year low against US dollar

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-07-22T04:45:14+00:00

Japan’s currency fell as much as 0.5% to 163.24 per dollar overnight as the greenback strengthened alongside US Treasury yields after renewed tensions in the US-Iran conflict drove oil prices higher.

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Le Maghreb, lieu de planque de moins en moins tranquille des « narcos » français

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-07-22T04:30:00+00:00

« L’Afrique sous emprise » (3/6). Au Maroc, en Algérie ou en Tunisie, les trafiquants ont longtemps pensé être à l’abri. Mais les nouvelles relations de Paris avec Rabat et Alger ont modifié la donne, obligeant les délinquants à chercher d’autres destinations.

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EN DIRECT, guerre au Moyen-Orient : l’armée américaine a une nouvelle fois lancé une série de frappes nocturnes sur l’Iran

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-07-22T04:23:25+00:00

Pour la onzième nuit d’affilée, les Etats-Unis ont dit mener des attaques sur des « cibles militaires ». Des explosions ont été rapportées par l’agence iranienne d’Etat IRNA à Bouchehr, où se trouve la seule centrale nucléaire civile en fonctionnement d’Iran, ainsi que des frappes dans le sud et le nord-ouest du pays.

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EN DIRECT, guerre au Moyen-Orient : l’armée américaine a bombardé l’Iran pour la onzième nuit d’affilée

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-07-22T04:23:23+00:00

Selon l’état-major américain, des « cibles militaires » ont été visées. Des explosions ont été rapportées par l’agence iranienne d’Etat IRNA à Bouchehr, où se trouve la seule centrale nucléaire civile en fonctionnement d’Iran, ainsi que des frappes dans le sud et le nord-ouest du pays.

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