Australian Gov’t Set To Prohibit Social Media Access For Minors Under 16
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese submitted a proposal Thursday to ban social media use by children under sixteen. Albanese and Communications Minister Michelle Rowland pledged to legislate a minimum age limit of 16 years for social media access. The prime minister had previously announced an intention to introduce legislation to parliament for the age limit before the end of 2024 but...
US Election: Not The Result We Expected – Obama
Former United States President, Barack Obama, has said the electoral victory of Donald Trump in the election is not the outcome he had hoped for. Obama’s comments stand in stark contrast with Trump’s unprecedented refusal four years ago to concede defeat to Joe Biden, culminating with the violent attack by his supporters on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. In...
Biden Set To Address Americans Following Trump’s Electoral Victory
US President Biden will address the nation on Thursday and promise to cede power to Trump after defeating Kamala Harris in the recent election. In what is expected to be a solemn moment for Biden, he will speak from the White House Rose Garden at 11 am (1600 GMT) to “discuss the election results and the transition” to Trump’s second...
SEX TAPE: E’Guinea Installs CCTV In Offices, Probes Officials Found Wanting
Equatorial Guinea's government has probed hundreds of leaked pornographic videos of Baltasar Engonga with wives of high-ranking officials. The government has further ordered the installation of surveillance cameras in courts and ministries to combat “indecent and illicit acts.” It also announced that it was suspending officials involved in the scandal, according to a statement issued by the Equatorial Guinea Press and...
“Harris Will Not Address Supporters Until Tomorrow” – Campaign Office
The campaign office of Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris has said that the VP won’t address supporters on election night. “We still have votes to count. We still have states that have not been called yet,’’ Harris campaign co-chair Cedric Richmond said in the early hours of Wednesday. “We will continue overnight to fight to make sure that every vote is...
Donald Trump Returns to White House, Vows To Restore America’s Greatness
Donald Trump has won the US presidential election, media reported on Wednesday, defeating Kamala Harris in a stunning political comeback that is set to send shockwaves around the world. The polarising Republican’s victory, following one of the most hostile campaigns in modern US history, was particularly remarkable given an unprecedented criminal conviction, a near-miss assassination attempt, and warnings from a...
US Election: Donald Trump Declares Victory, Harris Yet To Concede Defeat
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has announced his victory in the U.S. presidential election on Wednesday after securing a critical win in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. The swing state’s electoral votes pushed Trump past the threshold needed for victory. However, Democratic candidate Kamala Harris was yet to concede at her Washington, D.C. headquarters, as incoming results showed Trump ahead in...
Trump Secures 266 Electoral Votes, Harris At 195
Former Republican President Donald Trump secured a new term in the White House by a small margin, defeating Vice President Kamala Harris. US media have so far projected that Trump has won in more than half of the 50 US states, including three key battlegrounds: Georgia, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania, two of which voted Democratic in the last election. This gives...
WhatsApp Restricted In Equatorial Guinea Amid Sex Scandal
The Equatorial Guinean government has banned its citizens from using WhatsApp to download and share multimedia files over mobile data. This decision was followed by the guidelines that the country’s government gave to telecommunications operators when it urged them to implement measures to restrict access to inappropriate content. The country’s Director General, National Financial Investigation Agency, Baltasar Engonga, was enmeshed in a...
Russian Court Jail Engineer 16 years Over Spying For Ukraine
After being guilty of providing information to Ukraine, an engineer at a Russian tank manufacturer received a 16-year prison sentence for treason. The regional court in Sverdlovsk said Daniel Mukhametov, 32, was working as an engineer at Uralvagonzavod in Nizhny Tagil in Russia’s Urals when Russia’s FSB security services detained him and his wife Viktoria in 2023. Uralvagonzavod is one of...
