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The European Union on Wednesday targeted Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Google parent Alphabet, Facebook owner Meta and TikTok parent ByteDance under new digital rules aimed at reining in the market power of online companies. The firms were classed as online "gatekeepers" that must face the highest level of scrutiny under its Digital Markets Act. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/5BWjfvK

The launch of the HII-A rocket from Tanegashima Space Center in southwestern Japan was shown on live video by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, known as JAXA. “We have a liftoff,” the narrator at JAXA said as the rocket flew up in a burst of smoke then flew over the Pacific. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/0svzOj3

Iranian authorities on Tuesday arrested an uncle of Mahsa Amini, the young Iranian Kurdish woman who died in custody sparking months of protests, just ahead of the first anniversary of her death, reports said on Tuesday. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/hJqKYC5

The local authorities running Britain's second-largest city, Birmingham, have shifted focus on maintaining vital services as they declared the council effectively bankrupt due to an annual budgetary shortfall of millions of pounds. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/nF7Gjwd

Due to the situation of British jails, Germany has refused to extradite an Albanian accused drug trafficker to the UK. The higher regional court in Karlsruhe, southwest Germany, ruled that the man's extradition request was "inadmissible" due to concerns that he would face harsh or degrading treatment in a British jail. The ruling is odd given that UK extradition barristers regularly criticize Indian prisons, claiming overcrowding and prisoner violence to urge UK judges not to transfer people from the UK to India. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/7Une5DE

At least 32 civilians were killed and dozens injured in artillery strikes by the Sudanese army on Tuesday, one of the highest tolls from a single day of fighting since conflict broke out in April, the activist group Emergency Lawyers said. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/T1xZmMj