Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese on Thursday submitted a proposal to ban children younger than 16years from using social media. Albanese and Communications Minister Michelle Rowland pledged to legislate a minimum age limit of 16 years for social media access. The prime minister had previously announced an intention to introduce legislation to parliament for the…
The Government of Equatorial Guinea has restricted its citizens from downloading and sharing multimedia files using mobile data on WhatsApp. This decision was followed by the guidelines that the country’s government gave to telecommunications operators when it urged them to implement measures to restrict access to inappropriate content. The country’s Director General, National Financial Investigation…
Shola Balogun, a Nigerian-British officer from Bromley Police Station, has been dismissed by the Metropolitan Police Service in the UK for allegedly biting a colleague at a birthday party in Bexleyheath, Kent. This was revealed during a hearing from October 21 to 23, 2024 chaired by high-ranking officer Christopher McKay, with panel members IPM Amanda…
GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that late Indian Billionaire, Ratan Tata, has named his dog, Tito as a beneficiary in his Rs 10,000 crore will. The industrialist passed away on October 9 at 86. According to the will provisions, Tito will receive “unlimited” care under the supervision of Tata’s trusted cook, Rajan Shaw, who has long tended…
A 15-year-old boy has been charged with five counts of aggravated murder after allegedly killing his parents and three siblings in a tragic shooting at their home in eastern Seattle. The victims, identified by the King County Medical Examiner’s Office as Mark Humiston, 43, his wife Sarah Humiston, 42, and their children Katheryn, 7, Joshua,…
A father, Fernando Vega has been charged with capital murder in connection with the deaths of his twin newborn daughters, Massail and Mirena, who were found dead in their home in Houston on October 4, 2023. If found guilty, Vega could face the death penalty, per report from Daily Mail UK. Vega was initially arrested…
A 14-year-old broke into a police station in Bosnia late Thursday and stabbed to death one officer and wounded another, police said. The attack took place in the town of Bosanska Krupa, 300 kilometres (186 miles) northwest of the capital Sarajevo, said Ramo Isak, interior minister for the Bosniak-Croat federation, one of the two entities…
Police operatives in Cyprus are in the process of dismantling a Nigerian prostitution ring in Limassol, a city on the southern coast of the Middle Eastern country. This follows the arrest of three women, in coordination with the country’s anti-trafficking unit on Wednesday. The case first came to the attention of the police last year…
A total of 43 learners from a primary school in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa, were sent to hospital for suspected food poisoning, local education authorities confirmed. The provincial education department said the learners from Ngaqa Primary School in Mtubatuba fell ill after consuming snacks purchased from street vendors outside the school. “The students were rushed…
The lawyer for Mozambique’s leading opposition candidate Venancio Mondlane, who ran for president in October 9 elections, was gunned down in Maputo on Saturday. The lawyer, Elvino Dias, was killed with another candidate, Paulo Guambe, from the Podemos party backing Mondlane. Two gunmen shot up their car while it was immobile on a road in…