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What the potential TikTok ban means, and what’s next for the bill 14 Mar 2024 - 10:17 am
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TikTok devotees say platform unfairly targeted for US ban 13 Mar 2024 - 10:57 pm
Participants hold signs in support of TikTok outside the U.S. Capitol Building on March 13, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
Blinken confirms Haiti mission with Kenya leader, sees headway in days 13 Mar 2024 - 10:37 pm
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken attends an emergency meeting on Haiti at the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) in Kingston, Jamaica, on March 11, 2024. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / POOL / AFP)
House passes a bill that could lead to a TikTok ban if Chinese owner refuses to sell 13 Mar 2024 - 08:52 pm
The TikTok logo is displayed at TikTok offices on March 12, 2024 in Culver City, California. (Photo by MARIO TAMA / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
Author Mitch Albom, 9 others evacuated by helicopter from violence-torn Port-au-Prince 13 Mar 2024 - 08:15 pm
A protester burns tires during a demonstration following the resignation of its Prime Minister Ariel Henry, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on March 12, 2024. (Photo by Clarens SIFFROY / AFP)
Kenya to lead Haiti mission once new govt in place: Ruto 13 Mar 2024 - 08:03 pm
A protester burns tires during a demonstration following the resignation of its Prime Minister Ariel Henry, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on March 12, 2024. (Photo by Clarens Siffroy / AFP)
US House overwhelmingly passes TikTok ban bill 13 Mar 2024 - 06:07 pm
In this photo illustration, the social media application logo, TikTok is displayed on the screen of an iPhone on an American flag background on August 3, 2020 in Arlington, Virginia. Photo by Olivier DOULIERY / AFP
Gunman surrenders after three-hour hostage ordeal on Rio bus 13 Mar 2024 - 01:48 am
People wait to enter to the Novo Rio bus terminal after the gunman who was holding passengers hostage surrendered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on March 12, 2024. (Photo by Pablo PORCIUNCULA / AFP)
Rio police release 17 hostages from gunman on a bus, 2 people wounded 13 Mar 2024 - 12:53 am
People wait to enter to the Novo Rio bus terminal after the gunman who was holding passengers hostage surrendered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on March 12, 2024. (Photo by Pablo PORCIUNCULA / AFP)
Trump, Biden set to clinch enough votes for presidential nomination 12 Mar 2024 - 11:58 pm
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Special counsel grilled over report that questioned Biden's memory 12 Mar 2024 - 10:23 pm
Former Special Counsel Robert Hur returns from a short break to resume his testimony before the House Judiciary Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill on March 12, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Photo by CHIP SOMODEVILLA / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
Pentagon to give Ukraine $300 million in weapons even as it lacks funds to replenish US stockpile 12 Mar 2024 - 09:33 pm
A young woman looks at her smartphone during snowfall in Kyiv, on March 12, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Anatolii STEPANOV / AFP)
Haiti PM to resign as violent gangs rampage  12 Mar 2024 - 07:00 pm
File: Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry looks on during a ceremony at La Primature in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on July 20, 2021. (Photo by Valerie Baeriswyl / AFP)
Journalist reported missing in Mexico 12 Mar 2024 - 02:20 pm
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Man bitten by crocodile after falling off boat at Florida Everglades marina 12 Mar 2024 - 12:57 am
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Blinken attends urgent meeting with Caribbean leaders as Haiti's violent crisis grows 12 Mar 2024 - 12:49 am
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (L) speaks during a bilateral meeting with Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness (R) at the Pegasus Hotel ahead of the emergency meeting on Haiti at the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) in Kingston, Jamaica, on March 11, 2024. (Photo by Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / POOL / AFP)
TikTok dragged into US election as Trump opposes ban 11 Mar 2024 - 08:12 pm
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Richard Truly, astronaut and NASA administrator, dies at 86 11 Mar 2024 - 06:44 pm
Adm. Truly in 1979. He earned the NASA Distinguished Service Medal twice (Photo by: NASA).

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File photo Hajj season free of epidemic outbreaks: Saudi Arabia
Peninsula Suspected floating mine spotted in Strait of Hormuz, Oman warns mariners
Muslims pilgrims perform the symbolic Muslim faithful leave Mecca after hajj
File photo Saudi health system provides over 1.2 million health services to pilgrims

Middle East

Peninsula OIC welcomes Israeli Occupation Authorities' inclusion on UN 'blacklist' of conflict-related violations of bodily integrity
Picture: QNA/ X Over 12 detained, 7 injured in Israeli and colonizers' rampages across West Bank
Picture: QNA/ X Two Lebanese troops wounded after Israeli drone hits vehicle in Nabatieh
File photo Egypt looks to deepen strategic partnership with China at 70-year milestone: foreign ministry

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This photograph taken on May 19, 2026 shows a stone quarry near Avinashi village in Rajasthan's Neem Ka Thana town. (Photo by AFP) Mining turns India's heat-shield hills to dust
A resident affected by the Lapindo mudflow sits on the embankment in the mud volcano area, marking 20 years since a gas exploration accident triggered a mud flow that inundated more than a dozen villages and permanently displaced tens of thousands of people in Porong, Sidoarjo, East Java province on May 29, 2026. (Photo by JUNI KRISWANTO / AFP) Two decades later, impacts from Indonesia mud volcano linger
In this photo taken on May 5, 2026, chief scientific and operations officer Brett Kagan looks at cortical and hippocampal cells on cell culture plates in Melbourne. (Photo by William West / AFP) Australian researchers teach brain cells to play 'Doom'
This screen grab made from handout video footage taken on May 30, 2026, and provided by Adisak Wongsoraya, shows two men (centre L and centre R, with headlamp) being hugged after they were rescued from a semi-submerged cave in Laos' central Xaysomboun province, northeast of the capital Vientiane. Photo by Handout / Adisak Wongsoraya / AFP Survivors advise rescuers in search for last two stuck in Laos cave

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