SYDNEY, Dec 5 (Reuters) – American talk show host Oprah Winfrey has praised Australia’s decision to ban social media for under-16s from next week, saying the move would help young people socialise more. The law, due to take effect on December 10, will block children and teenagers from platforms such as TikTok, Meta’s Instagram and …
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By Laura Garcia, Natalia Siniawski and Aida Pelaez-Fernandez TEGUCIGALPA, Dec 4 (Reuters) – Honduran centrist candidate Salvador Nasralla on Thursday alleged fraud in the country’s highly contested presidential vote after his Trump-backed rival Nasry Asfura pulled narrowly past him overnight. Nasralla, in a post on X, said the screen displaying the vote data went blank …
Dec 4 (Reuters) – The U.S. plans to expand the number of countries covered by its travel ban to more than 30, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said on Thursday. Noem, in an interview on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle,” was asked to confirm whether the administration of President Donald Trump would be increasing …
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Dec 4 (Reuters) – Florida’s entire U.S. congressional delegation on Thursday urged President Donald Trump to leave their state out of a plan by his administration to expand oil and gas drilling to new coastal areas, saying it would threaten the state’s military and tourism industries. WHY IT’S IMPORTANT The letter to Trump from Florida …
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By Kantaro Komiya and Satoshi Sugiyama TOKYO, Dec 5 (Reuters) – American actor and playwright Jeremy O. Harris, known for the Tony-nominated “Slave Play”, was arrested last month at an airport in Japan on suspicion of attempting to smuggle illegal drugs into the country, local authorities said late on Thursday. Harris, 36, was stopped on …
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By Daniel Wiessner Dec 4 (Reuters) – A judge on Thursday blocked the U.S. State Department from immediately laying off more than 250 workers, a legal setback for President Donald Trump and his mass firings of government employees. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston in San Francisco said employee unions that filed the lawsuit were likely …
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By Dave Sherwood HAVANA, Dec 4 (Reuters) – Top law enforcement officials in Cuba said on Thursday the island was prioritizing the fight against narcotics trafficking in the Caribbean and continued to provide information to the U.S. Coast Guard amid escalating tensions and surging U.S. military presence in the region. Cuba and the United States …
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Dec 4 (Reuters) – The U.S. military said it killed four men in a strike on a suspected drug vessel in international waters in the Eastern Pacific on Thursday. “Intelligence confirmed that the vessel was carrying illicit narcotics and transiting along a known narco-trafficking route in the Eastern Pacific,” the U.S. military said in a …
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WASHINGTON, Dec 4 (Reuters) – The Pentagon has completed its review of the AUKUS project to provide Australia with nuclear-powered submarines and has found areas to put the deal on the “strongest possible footing,” a U.S. official said on Thursday. President Donald Trump’s administration said in June it had launched a formal review into the …
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By Erin Banco and Phil Stewart Dec 4 (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers have reviewed a summary of a Pentagon document that lays out the scope of the Trump administration’s campaign to strike vessels carrying narcotics in the Caribbean, according to four sources familiar with the matter. Members of Congress see the document as central to …
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