Russia’s Wagner paramilitary group claims to have raised a Russian flag over the destroyed eastern city. It says that gives it “legal” control, but Kyiv insists its forces are still holding the town. The deadly fight for Bakhmut has been raging for mon…

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Australia will now be following in the footsteps of other major countries by banning the use of TikTok on government devices, The Australian reports.

Since they came on the scene, rentable scooters have been everywhere in Paris, but they could soon be a thing of the past. That’s because Parisians voted Sunday to ban them, though fewer than 10 percent turned out. In a non-binding referendum, around 9…

The explosion that killed a Russian blogger in St Petersburg is believed to have been from a bomb hidden in a statue

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43 years later, the lone suspect in the 1980 bombing of a Paris synagogue is going on trial. A Lebanese-Canadian academic named Hassan Dian stands accused of the attack, but he lives in Ottawa and will be tried in absentia. FRANCE 24’s Shirli Sitbon, G…

Chinese authorities have begun an investigation into leading US memory chipmaker Micron Technology, a decision Beijing’s foreign ministry said Monday was intended to “safeguard national security”.