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Is TikTok a national security threat – or is the ban a smokescreen for superpower rivalry?
If the Chinese-owned TikTok is deemed definitively by the US to be a national security threat, it is hard to see how the UK or other western countries could conclude differently.
But the fact that Donald Trump has walked into the White House talking of a reprieve for the video-sharing …
‘It’s not the damage, it’s the terror’: Israeli settlers run riot after ceasefire deal
Sundus al-Fukaha was watching the news at home in the occupied West Bank village of Sinjil on Saturday evening when she heard the sound of running and muffled voices outside. The next thing she knew, a molotov cocktail thrown by an Israeli settler crashed through the window, setting the sofa …
Legal challenges to infrastructure projects to be blocked in push for growth
Campaigners will be blocked from “excessive” legal challenges to planning decisions for major infrastructure projects including airports, railways and nuclear power stations as part of the government’s drive for economic growth.
High court judges will be given the power to rule that judicial reviews on nationally significant projects that they …
‘I am so proud’: Joy as Thailand’s same-sex couples can at last get married
Tawach Chaweewong gets goosebumps just thinking about his upcoming wedding to his partner of almost eight years, Thanakorn Srikornthai. It will not only be a joyful celebration on a personal level, but also a historic occasion.
Thailand’s LGBTQ+ community has fought for decades for the right to equal marriage and, …
‘Rising star’: Europe made more electricity from solar than coal in 2024
Closing UK parliament’s bars could put MPs at risk, says Commons leader
Afghan man arrested after deadly knife attack in German park
A 28-year-old Afghan man has been arrested after a knife attack in a park in the German city of Aschaffenburg that killed two people, including a toddler, in what the country’s chancellor, Olaf Scholz, condemned as an “act of terror”.
With a month left in a campaign for snap elections …
Revised terror laws will not include disruptive protest, says No 10
An overhaul of laws on terrorism after the Southport murders will not expand the definition to take in disruptive but non-violent protest, Downing Street has said, as MPs and senior lawyers warned about potential risks to the plan.
, to be led by …Nuclear fusion: it’s time for a reality check | Letters
I can’t help thinking Ed Miliband has not been accurately briefed when he says a government funding pledge means Britain is within “grasping distance” of “secure, clean, unlimited energy” from nuclear fusion (
Ministers pledge record £410m to support UK nuclear fusion energy, 16 January
).Before we start …