The case sprang from 2018 revelations that Cambridge Analytica, a firm with ties to Trump political strategist Steve Bannon, had paid a Facebook app developer for access to the personal information of about 87 million users of the platform.
Musk dumped another USD 2.58 billion worth of Tesla stock last week and has sold nearly USD 23 billion worth of his car company's shares since April, when he started building a position in Twitter.
Paris shooting: Police said a 69-year-old suspect has been arrested. The motive behind the shooting is not clear yet.
China-Taiwan News: Between 6 am on Wednesday and 6 am on Thursday, 30 of the Chinese planes crossed the median of the Taiwan Strait, an unofficial boundary once tacitly accepted by both sides.
China COVID-19 BF.7 update: On Wednesday, China reported no new COVID-19 deaths and subtracted one death from its overall toll, lowering it to 5,241, according to a daily tally issued by the National Health Commission, which did not explain the decrease.
The epicentre of the earthquake was just offshore at a depth of about 16 kilometres. Numerous aftershocks followed.
Billionaire Elon Musk and former US president Donald Trump made news for a lot of wrong reasons. Trump has been facing legal trouble over January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, while Musk is being criticised for firing Twitter employees.
The $1.7 trillion package includes requirements for the Biden administration to prohibit most uses of TikTok or any other app created by its owner, ByteDance Ltd.
The United States accused the UN secretary-general of “yielding to Russian threats” and failing to launch an investigation against Iran.
North Korea said that Japan’s push to acquire counterstrike capability has nothing to do with self-defence but is a clear attempt to acquire “pre-emptive attack capability meant to launch strikes on other countries’ territories.”
Russia-Ukraine war: According to Kyiv city administration, Russia launched 23 self-exploding drones over the city and the Ukrainian forces claimed to have shot down 18 of them.
North Korea spy satellite: North Korea, on Monday, said it fired a test satellite in an important final-stage test for the development of its first spy satellite.
Hawaii Airlines turbulence: Nearly a dozen people were seriously injured when a flight to Hawaii was rocked by severe turbulence on Sunday about 30 minutes outside Honolulu, an emergency response agency said.
North Korea fires ballistic missile: Japan’s Coast Guard said it was informed by the Defense Ministry that North Korea’s suspected missile landed in waters between Japan and the Korean Peninsula, but did not say how close it was from the Japanese coast.
COVID-19 Beijing deaths: Deaths linked to the coronavirus are appearing in Beijing after weeks of China reporting no fatalities, even as the country is seeing a surge of cases.
Peru protests: Almost since the moment last week when Dina Boluarte took over from the ousted leader Pedro Castillo to become Peru’s first female president, she has appealed for calm and a chance to govern, insisting that the caretaker job came to her out of circumstance, not personal ambition.
Texas earthquake: The agency had previously issued a preliminary magnitude of 5.3 before updating it. In the interim, the National Weather Service’s office in Midland tweeted that it “would be the 4th strongest earthquake in Texas state history!”
The UN General Assembly on Friday rejected attempts by Myanmar's military junta, Afghanistan's Taliban rulers, and Libya's rival eastern-based government to take their country's seats at the United Nations.
More than 90 people were sleeping on an organic farm when the dirt tumbled from a road about 30 meters (100 feet) above the site and covered about 1 hectare (3 acres). Two of the dead were found locked in an embrace, according to the state fire department chief.
Local authorities on social media reported explosions in the capital, Kyiv, southern Kryvyi Rih and northeastern Kharkiv as authorities sounded air raid alarms across the country warning of a new devastating barrage of the Russian strikes that have occurred intermittently since mid-October.
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