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By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press Denmark’s government on Friday announced an agreement to ban access to social media for anyone under 15, ratcheting up pressure on Big Tech platforms as concerns grow that kids are getting too swept up in a digitized world of harmful content and commercial interests. The move would give some parents

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A European Union naval force on Friday reached a Malta-flagged tanker earlier attacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia, finding all its 24 mariners safe after an assault that raised renewed fears about piracy in the region. The seizure of the Hellas Aphrodite,

By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian authorities said Friday they have identified a 17-year-old boy as the suspect in an attack that shook a mosque at a high school in the capital, Jakarta, injuring at least 54 people, mostly students. Witnesses told local television stations that they heard at least two

By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The groping of Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum on a downtown street shone a bright light on the gender violence women face every day, but the country’s political polarization has tarnished what under other circumstances would seem a natural moment for national solidarity, analysts say. The president

By DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — China has commissioned its latest aircraft carrier after extensive sea trials, state media reported Friday, adding a ship that experts say will help what is already the world’s largest navy expand its power farther beyond its own waters. The official Xinhua news agency said the Fujian had

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — “You get used to it.” That was Pope Leo XIV ‘s matter-of-fact response when King Charles III asked about the swarms of televisions cameras documenting his historic visit to the Vatican last month. Charles is no stranger to paparazzi, so Leo wasn’t telling the monarch anything

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Friday fired a suspected short-range ballistic missile toward its eastern waters, South Korea’s military said, as Pyongyang steps up its testing activity while talks with Washington and Seoul remain stalled. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the weapon flew about 700

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL and JIM GOMEZ Associated Press DAK LAK, Vietnam (AP) — Typhoon Kalmaegi brought fierce winds and torrential rains to Vietnam on Friday, killing at least five people, flattening homes, blowing off roofs and uprooting trees. In the Philippines, where the storm left at least 204 dead earlier in the week, survivors wept