Seven French families have filed a lawsuit against social media giant TikTok, accusing the platform of exposing their adolescent children to harmful content that led to two of them taking their own lives at 15, their lawyer said on Monday. The lawsuit alleges TikTok's algorithm exposed the seven teenagers to videos promoting suicide, self-harm and eating disorders, lawyer Laure Boutron-Marmion told broadcaster franceinfo.
SEE MORELONDON — In a groundbreaking civil case, the British government settled out of court Thursday with the mother of a 9-year-old girl who was the first to have “air pollution” recorded as a cause on her death certificate. Environment Minister Emma Hardy met with the family and apologized on the behalf of the government, although she did not offer any new policy commitments.
SEE MOREUnited Nations report released Thursday said that nothing short of a “quantum leap in ambition” will suffice at a time when the world is on course to blow past all targets for limiting warming.
SEE MOREKAZAN, Russia — Russian President Vladimir Putin cut a confident figure as he took the stage Thursday to give a closing news conference with hundreds members of the foreign press — a rare event since his invasion of Ukraine — to conclude a three-day summit designed to show the world that Russia is not a global pariah.
SEE MOREChinese government-backed hackers have penetrated deep into U.S. internet service providers in recent months to spy on their users, according to people familiar with the ongoing American response and private security researchers.
SEE MOREThe United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on former Haitian president Michel Martelly, accusing him of abusing “his influence to facilitate drug trafficking” and of sponsoring several of the gangs.
SEE MOREDivers were searching Tuesday for six passengers missing after their yacht sank in a ferocious storm off the northern coast of Sicily.
SEE MORElsraeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip and southern Lebanon killed at least 25 civilians Saturday, according to Lebanese and Palestinian health authorities, as the United States and allies were racing to conclude delicate cease-fire negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
SEE MOREInitially,During more than 19 months in power, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition government has dramatically expanded Israel’s footprint in the occupied West Bank — accelerating a long-term campaign by the country’s settler movement to thwart the creation of a Palestinian state.
SEE MORElran should hold off its expected assault of Israel to avoid scuttling the progress coming out of the two-day cease-fire and hostage release negotiations taking place in Doha, Qatar’s prime minister urged Iran’s leaders in a phone call following the first day of talks, according to two diplomats familiar with the conversation.
SEE MOREInternational mediators were heading to the Middle East for a high-stakes round of negotiations scheduled for Thursday as they raced to lock down an elusive cease-fire in the between lsrael and the Hamas Gaza Strip. But hopes for a breakthrough were damped after Hamas said it would not attend the peace talks.
SEE MOREIsrael went into a new workweek in a state of deep uncertainty on Sunday, with the potential for attacks by Iran and the militant groups it supports.
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