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Instagram gives parents more control over teen accounts

Getty ImagesInstagram is overhauling the way it works for teenagers, promising more “built-in protections” for young people and added controls and reassurance for parents.The new “teen accounts”, for children aged 13 to 15, will force many privacy settings to be on by default, rather than a child opting in.Teenagers’ posts will also be set to […]

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‘I am a rapist’, admits husband in French mass rape trial

Warning: This story contains distressing details from the start.Dominique Pelicot, the 71-year-old man accused of drugging his wife to sleep and recruiting dozens of men to abuse her for over 10 years, has admitted to all the charges against him in his first testimony since the trial opened on 2 September.Referring to the 50 co-defendants

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Starvation in war-hit Sudan ‘almost everywhere’ – WHO

Starvation in war-stricken Sudan “is almost everywhere”, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has told the BBC’s Today programme after visiting the country.”The situation in Sudan is very alarming… the massive displacement – it’s now the largest in the world, and, of course, famine,” director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.He said 12 million people

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Israel sets new war goal of returning residents to the north

Israel has made the safe return of residents to the north of the country an official war goal, the prime minister’s office has said.The decision was taken by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s security cabinet late on Monday.About 60,000 people have been evacuated from northern Israel because of near-daily attacks by Iran-backed Hezbollah in neighbouring Lebanon.Cross-border

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