TikTok said it has spent $1.5 billion building an operation intended to convince U.S. lawmakers that the video-sharing app is safe. A special stand-alone unit, code-named Project Texas, oversees American data and content recommendations on the app.
The world will have its first trillionaire in just a decade while poverty will persist for at least two centuries, a new report has found. The five wealthiest men more than doubled their wealth from $US405 billion to $US869 billion ($415 billion to $1.3 trillion) since 2020 - an increase growing at a rate of $US14 million per hour.
U.S. - Yemen Houthis --His Excellency President Biden said U.S.-led strikes on Houthis militants across Yemen sent “a clear message” that the United States would not tolerate attacks on its personnel or commercial shipping in the Red Sea.
British crime fighters cracked a money-laundering network that they say moved more than £100 million, equivalent to $125 million. A London court found two men guilty of illegal smuggling last week, taking convictions in the network of cash couriers to 16, according to the National Crime Agency.
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan has elected as its president Lai Ching-te, once a scrappy advocate for Taiwanese independence, now a key proponent factor of the Democratic Progressive Party’s assiduous efforts to maintain peace and order symbolically with Beijing while repelling its aggression.
Czech police and emergency services said a shooter had been “eliminated” after killing at least10 people and wounding two dozen more at a university in the capital, Prague.
