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A recent report reveals that major social media and video streaming companies engage in extensive surveillance of users, particularly children and teens, while failing to implement adequate privacy safeguards, Anadolu Agency reported yesterday. The findings indicate that these companies collect…

Eight former state security personnel in Thailand have been indicted on murder charges related to the deaths of 78 Muslim protesters during the Tak Bai massacre in 2004, the Associated Press reported yesterday. The announcement was made by the prosecutor’s…

More than 150 individuals appeared in a Moroccan court for allegedly inciting illegal migration following a failed mass attempt to reach Spain’s Ceuta enclave, Arab News reported today. Government spokesman Mustapha Baitas reported that around 3,000 people attempted to cross…

A preliminary investigation by Lebanese authorities into the communications devices that exploded in Lebanon this week revealed they were rigged with explosives before being brought into the country, according to a letter from Lebanon’s mission to the United Nations addressed…

A new study published in “Child Development” revealed that teaching finger counting strategies to kindergarten children significantly enhances their arithmetic skills. Conducted by researchers from the University of Lausanne in Switzerland and Lea.fr, Editions Nathan in Paris, France, the study…

Iraqi security forces killed at least six suspected ISIS members, including a leader, in an operation in Kirkuk province on Thursday. According to the Iraqi army’s Joint Operations Command, F-16 airstrikes targeted a terrorist group, killing Omar Salah Nima, also…

Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council announced on Thursday the sentencing of three ISIS members to death for attacks on security forces in Anbar and Salahaddin provinces, Rudaw reported. The court stated that the militants aimed to incite fear among civilians and…

The Iraqi Ministry of Interior’s Agency for Maysan Police Affairs announced Thursday the discovery of significant archaeological sites and over 400 vertical wells from the early first millennium AD near the Iraqi-Iranian border. This finding was made during routine field…

A militant attack in Bamako, Mali’s capital, has resulted in at least 77 deaths and 255 injuries, Arab News reported yesterday citing security sources. The assault, claimed by the Al-Qaeda-linked group JNIM, targeted a military police training camp and a…

A report from the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) reveals that 337 personnel and civilians have been killed in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) this year, with 616 others injured due to attacks by banned organizations, Aaj News reported yesterday. Peshawar saw the…