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Elon Musk announced Saturday that Twitter would temporarily restrict how many tweets users could read per day, in a move meant to tamp down on the use of the site’s data by artificial intelligence companies. The platform is limiting verified accounts to reading…

Brazil’s far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro vowed Friday to appeal a court ruling to bar him from public office for eight years over unfounded attacks he had made against the country’s voting system. Prosecutors blamed Bolsonaro’s statements for a violent invasion of the presidential…

The US Supreme Court dealt President Joe Biden a significant political setback Tuesday when it overruled his landmark programme to cancel the student debt of millions of Americans. The court said Biden had overstepped his powers in cancelling more than $400 billion in…

Kenya’s president, his deputy and other state officials are set to receive pay rises despite citizens facing deep economic hardship and higher taxes, according to a government document seen by AFP Friday. They are due to get a 14 percent salary hike over…

Oscar-winning Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey was on Friday described as a “sexual bully”, as prosecutors opened their case against him in London for a string of alleged assaults. “Kevin Spacey Fowler is an actor; many of you will already know that,” lawyer Christine…

Paris Saint Germain coach Christophe Galtier was held for questioning along with his son as part of a probe into alleged discrimination, the Nice prosecutor told AFP on Friday. The move follows an investigation launched in April, following claims he made racist and…

The Bank of America (BoA) has said the it sees the value of the naira settling at N680 to the dollar by the end of the year, saying that the currency has moved from overvalued to being undervalued following the government’s recent…

rance’s highest administrative court has ruled that the country’s football federation is entitled to ban hijab (headscarves) in competitions even though the measure can limit freedom of expression. The Council of State issued its ruling on Thursday after a group of headscarf-wearing football…

A British court ruled Thursday that a government plan to send asylum-seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda is unlawful, delivering a blow to the Conservative administration's pledge to stop migrants making risky journeys across the English Channel In a split two-to-one ruling,…

The US Supreme Court on Thursday banned the use of race and ethnicity in university admissions, dealing a major blow to a decades-old practice that boosted educational opportunities for African-Americans and other minorities. “The student must be treated based on his or her…