Backlash grows as Malaysia plans ID checks to ban under-16s from social media

Fifty of the more than 300 students kidnapped from a Nigerian Catholic school last week have escaped and have been reunited with their parents, the Catholic Church and Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) said on Sunday. But around 253 of the kidnapped children, along with 12 staff members and teachers, are still with the kidnappers, said CAN Chairman Bulus Yohanna, a Catholic Bishop who is also the proprietor of the school. In a statement, Yohanna said the pupils escaped on Friday and… Source link

Beijing’s ambassador to the United Nations has doubled down on his criticism of Japan, calling Japanese leader Sanae Takaichi’s earlier comments on Taiwan “highly dangerous” and damaging to the post-war international order. According to state broadcaster CCTV, Fu Cong said in a letter to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Friday that Japan was “unrepentant” for the “blatantly provocative” remarks of its prime minister. He said Takaichi’s comments marked the first time a Japanese leader had… Source link

Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro damaged his electronic ankle bracelet with a soldering iron hours before his arrest, according to video released by the Supreme Court. The footage shows Bolsonaro telling an officer he had applied “hot iron” to the device “out of curiosity”. The plastic casing around the device appears to be scorched, though the officer said the core mechanism seemed intact. Asked whether he used an iron, he replies: “No, a soldering iron.” Bolsonaro insisted he had not… Source link