Meta has failed to disclose what it knows about the harmful effect of its platforms on children in violation of New Mexico's consumer protection laws, a state prosecutor said Monday as a trial began over the dangers of child sexual exploitation on social media.
It's the first stand-alone trial from state prosecutors in a stream of lawsuits against major social media companies, including Meta, over harm to children, and one that is likely to highlight explicit online content and its effects.
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Israeli military strikes on Monday killed three people west of Gaza City, according to the hospital where the casualties arrived.
Shifa Hospital reported the deaths amid the months-old ceasefire that has seen continued fighting. The Israeli army said Monday it is striking targets in response to Israeli troops coming under fire in the southern city of Rafah, which it says was a violation of the ceasefire. The army said it is striking targets "in a precise manner."
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Hanadi Abu Zant hasn't been able to pay rent on her apartment in the occupied West Bank for nearly a year after losing her permit to work inside Israel. When her landlord calls the police on her, she hides in a mosque.
"My biggest fear is being kicked out of my home. Where will we sleep, on the street?" she said, wiping tears from her cheeks.
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Honda reported Tuesday a 42% drop in profit for the nine months through December, compared to a year earlier, as U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs hurt the Japanese automaker's earnings.
Tokyo-based Honda Motor Co.'s profit over the three quarters totaled 465.4 billion yen ($3 billion), down from 805.2 billion yen.
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Global shares were mostly higher Tuesday as Japan's benchmark set another record after a historic election win for the nation's first female prime minister.
France's CAC 40 edged up 0.2% in early trading to 8,342.16, while Germany's DAX lost nearly 0.2% to 24,977.44. Britain's FTSE 100 slipped 0.5% to 10,339.55. The futures for the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average were up less than 0.1%.
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Drought conditions have left over 2 million people facing hunger in parts of Kenya, with cattle-keeping communities in the northeast the hardest hit, according to the United Nations and others.
In recent weeks, images of emaciated livestock in the arid area near the Somali border have shocked many in a region that reels from the effects of climate change.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has no desire to halt Russia's almost 4-year-old invasion of neighboring Ukraine and thinks he can "outsmart" the United States during talks with Washington about how to end the war, a senior European intelligence official told The Associated Press.
Kaupo Rosin, the head of Estonia's foreign intelligence service, said Moscow is playing for time in the talks with Washington and "there is absolutely no discussion about how to really cooperate with the U.S. in a meaningful way."
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Diana Abadi is known in the southern suburbs of Beirut as the "Mother of Cats."
For the past 12 years, she has turned her home and shop into a refuge for abandoned felines who now number between 50 and 70, and she often sleeps beside the cats as she cares for them full time.
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Prime Minister Nawaf Salam has chaired a meeting with national and local officials, during which the decision was made to evacuate 114 buildings, in Tripoli, deemed to be at risk of collapse in stages over the course of a month.
The country's Higher Relief Committee will then work to reinforce the buildings that can be saved, while those that are seriously structurally unsound will be demolished, Salam told journalists after the meeting on Monday. He said a housing allowance would be provided to the evacuated families for one year.
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In an operation in southern Lebanon early on Monday, Israelis forces seized a local official with the Jamaa Islamiya group and took him to Israel for questioning, the Israeli military and Lebanese state media reported.
According to the NNA agency, Atwi Atwi — a local official with the Sunni Islamist group Jamaa Islamiya, or the Islamic Group in English — was taken in the southern village of Hebbarieh, in the region of Hasbaya and close to the border with Israel.
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