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Brussels: The European Union is working on new rules to protect children from the addictive design features of social media platforms such as TikTok, Meta, and X, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Tuesday. “Sleep deprivation, depression, anxiety, self-harm, addictive behavi

Amsterdam: A Dutch hospital has quarantined 12 staff members as a precaution after blood and urine from a hantavirus patient were handled without following strict protocols. The staff members will remain in quarantine for six weeks, Radboudumc hospital in Nijmegen said, adding that the infection ri

London: Prime Minister Keir Starmer defied calls to resign on Tuesday, telling ministers he would “get on with governing” despite what he described as a “destabilising” 48 hours marked by growing demands for him to set out a timetable for his departure following a heavy election defeat. At a meetin

Manila: Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte has again been impeached by the lower house, a little over a year ​after an earlier impeachment against her was voided on constitutional grounds. The new complaint once again accused Duterte, the daughter of former ‌president Rodrigo Duterte, of misusi

Kathmandu: Passengers and crew members were safely evacuated from a Turkish Airlines jet that landed at a Nepal airport Monday with smoke coming out of the landing gear, the airline said. An official at the Kathmandu 's Tribhuvan International Airport had said earlier that the plane 's right landin

London:  British Prime ​Minister Keir Starmer 's position is under serious threat after dozens of ‌his own lawmakers ​called for him to set out a timetable for his departure, or resign, in the wake of heavy losses in local elections. Here 's what could happen next: Has a leadership contest been tri

Spain: The captain of the MV Hondius cruise ship, which was hit by a hantavirus outbreak, praised passengers and crew for their patience and discipline as evacuations drew to a close on Monday. Captain Jan Dobrogowski said in a video that the past weeks had been “extremely challenging” and that he

London: Seven cases of the Andes hantavirus have been confirmed among passengers of a cruise ship, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday. The agency updated the total number of reported cases to nine after France confirmed that a passenger evacuated from the MV Hondius had tested posit

Dubai: British pop star Dua Lipa has filed a lawsuit against Samsung Electronics seeking at least $15 million in damages, accusing the South Korean tech giant of using the singer’s image without permission to market its television sets. The lawsuit alleges that Samsung featured a copyrighted image

Seoul: South Korea 's presidential Blue House on Monday condemned in the strongest terms an attack against a cargo ship operated by a Korean shipper this month in the Strait of Hormuz and said it plans to respond once the source of the attack is identified. Experts conducted an initial forensic ana

Washington: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said on Sunday that one of the 17 Americans being repatriated from a hantavirus-struck luxury cruise ship has tested mildly positive for the Andes strain of the virus, while a second has mild symptoms. All the U.S. citizens are being airl