Author: France 24

On Tuesday, the US Senate approved a measure that would force the owner of social media app TikTok to either sell the US unit of the company or face a ban. The Chinese-owned group stands to lose a lot if it leaves the US market and is already planning to fight the bill in the courts, arguing it goes against users’ free speech rights. Also in this edition, FRANCE 24’s Bryan Quinn looks at Tesla’s falling revenues and profits amid competition from cheaper rivals. Source link

Israel’s foreign minister on Wednesday thanked the US Senate for approving $13 billion in military aid as part of its 26 billion in wartime assistance to Israel and humanitarian relief to citizens of Gaza. As Israel prepares for a Rafah offensive, Israel Katz said the US aid approval sends a “strong message to all our enemies”. Read our liveblog to follow today’s developments in the Middle East. Source link

A war of words is escalating between the Australian government and the owner of X, with Anthony Albanese calling Elon Musk an “arrogant billionaire who thinks he’s above the law” in response to Musk’s social media comments accusing the Australian government of censorship. The spat stems from X’s reluctance to comply with the country’s intetrnet regulator’s order to take down footage of last week’s alleged terrorist attack in Sydney.  Source link

Forty years after the release of his sensational sci-fi thriller “Terminator”, iconic filmmaker James Cameron’s work is being celebrated at Paris’s Cinématèque Francaise. We also hear from Zendaya at the premiere of tennis drama “Challengers”. Plus, French actor and director Mathieu Kassovitz – best known for his 1995 film “La Haine” – talks to us about his upcoming projects of two movies, a series, a documentary and a musical. Source link

For the first time, the United States is expected to impose sanctions on an Israeli military unit. The Netzah Yehuda Battalion, initially set up to accommodate Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jews but which quickly expanded to become a popular unit for radical right-wing settlers, has over the years been accused of a series of human rights abuses against Palestinians in the West Bank. Source link

Unrelated images are going viral on social media, claiming to show last Friday’s retaliatory strike by Israel on Iran. In this edition of Truth or Fake, we tell you what we know about the purported strike in the footage, based on verified images. Source link

As India’s opposition leader Rahul Gandhi claims on the campaign trail that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made the country into a “centre of unemployment”, we look at the situation that young Indians face on the job market. Also in this edition, the US will see its first high-speed rail line in 2028, when commuters will be able to travel from Los Angeles to Las Vegas in just over two hours. Source link

An independent review group on the UN agency for Palestinians found some “neutrality-related issues,” its much-anticipated report said Monday, but noted Israel had yet to provide evidence for incendiary allegations that staff were members of terrorist organisations. Source link

The Senate is returning to Washington on Tuesday to vote on $95 billion in war aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, taking the final steps in Congress to send the legislation to President Joe Biden’s desk after months of delays and contentious internal debate over how involved the United States should be abroad. Read our liveblog to follow today’s developments in the Middle East. Source link

Turkey’s president Recep Tayyp Erdogan was in Iraq this Monday – his first official visit in years, where he signed a raft of deals to try and reset rocky relations. High on the agenda was the water issue, stemming from Turkey’s construction of dams on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that reduced the supply downstream to Iraq.   Source link