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Texas to require age verification for app purchases

Around The Globe - Tue, 05/27/2025 - 22:05
The law requires parental consent to download apps or make in-app purchases for users aged below 18.

US judge temporarily bars Trump admin from ending NYC congestion pricing

Around The Globe - Tue, 05/27/2025 - 22:04
The ruling comes as US Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy is set to pause federal funds to New York state.

Mapping Israel’s military campaign in the occupied West Bank

Around The Globe - Tue, 05/27/2025 - 21:51
Research group Forensic Architecture finds that Israel is using tactics in the West Bank similar to those used in Gaza.

Netanyahu vows more aid sites in Gaza despite chaos in Rafah

Around The Globe - Tue, 05/27/2025 - 21:43
More aid distribution sites are being set up in Gaza with US support, according to Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu.

Has Trump’s response on Ukraine attack emboldened Putin?

Around The Globe - Tue, 05/27/2025 - 21:11
US president brands Russian leader 'absolutely crazy' after major air attack on Ukraine.

Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia to begin on June 4

Around The Globe - Tue, 05/27/2025 - 21:05
Officials say more than one million Muslim pilgrims from around the world have already arrived in the country.

King Charles III warns, yet assures, as he opens Canadian parliament

Around The Globe - Tue, 05/27/2025 - 21:03
King Charles III made references to US President Donald Trump’s threats against Canada in remarks to its parliament.

Photos: Thousands of Palestinians crowd a controversial aid centre in Gaza

Around The Globe - Tue, 05/27/2025 - 21:00
Israeli soldiers have fired warning shots to disperse the thousands who thronged the aid centre seeking food.

Trump administration to cut remaining US federal contracts with Harvard

Around The Globe - Tue, 05/27/2025 - 20:32
Government escalates row with university over demands to curb pro-Palestine student activism, racial diversity policies.

French lawmakers approve assisted dying bill

Around The Globe - Tue, 05/27/2025 - 20:13
Legislation likely to pass as polls say 90 percent of French in favour of laws that give terminally ill a right to die.

‘Heartbreaking’ chaos in Gaza as starving Palestinians seek Israeli-US aid

Around The Globe - Tue, 05/27/2025 - 19:55
Thousands try to reach site of a food distribution by the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in southern Gaza.

Key takeaways from King Charles’s ‘Speech from the Throne’ in Canada

Around The Globe - Tue, 05/27/2025 - 19:55
King stresses sovereignty amid US President Trump's pressure on Canada, but also urges cooperation in historic speech.

Silhouetted by fire, 6-year-old girl survives Israeli attack in Gaza

Around The Globe - Tue, 05/27/2025 - 19:36
Ward Khalil emerged from the blaze alive, but her mother and two of her siblings were killed in Monday's attack.

Chaos erupts as Palestinians rush to aid site after months of blockade

Around The Globe - Tue, 05/27/2025 - 18:40
Chaos erupted in Rafah as thousands of desperate Palestinians swarmed a new aid distribution site.

Israeli forces raid foreign exchange shops in occupied West Bank; one dead

Around The Globe - Tue, 05/27/2025 - 17:38
Palestinian groups slam the raids targeting exchanges in several cities in a widespread operation in the territory.

NPR sues Trump administration for cutting US federal funding

Around The Globe - Tue, 05/27/2025 - 17:21
The lawsuit alleges the Trump administration's move to cut funding to public media violates the US's First Amendment.

US Supreme Court rejects Native American case against large copper mine

Around The Globe - Tue, 05/27/2025 - 17:11
High court declines to hear bid to block a project that an Apache Indigenous group says would destroy a religious site.

How common is Israel’s use of human shields in Gaza and the West Bank?

Around The Globe - Tue, 05/27/2025 - 16:50
Army under pressure to provide answers amid growing evidence that orders to use Palestinians as 'fodder' come from top.

Trump Media to raise $2.5bn to invest in Bitcoin

Around The Globe - Tue, 05/27/2025 - 16:47
Trump Media says the money will be used to create a 'Bitcoin treasury'.

Why are the US and EU struggling to reach a trade deal?

Around The Globe - Tue, 05/27/2025 - 16:11
Trump's U-turn sees European leaders call for ‘lowest possible’ tariffs after levies postponed from June 1 to July 9.

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