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Australia's world-first social media ban for children under the age of 16 is just a week away. The tech platforms large and small are working on functionality that will kick off existing under-16 account holders and prevent any new ones from signing up. But how will it work, what happens to those accounts and what can people do if they are wrongly banned?

A Russian intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) fired from an underground silo on the country's southern steppe Friday on a scheduled test to deliver a dummy warhead to a remote impact zone nearly 4,000 miles away. The missile didn't even make it 4,000 feet. Russia's military has been silent on the accident, but the missile's crash was seen and heard for miles around the Dombarovsky air base in Orenburg Oblast near the Russian-Kazakh border.

During an appearance on Sportsnet's "Real Kyper and Bourne," DeBoer said he expects the playing surface to be several feet smaller than an NHL rink, though he was baffled as to why. "The ice surface, it looks like it's going to be smaller than NHL rink standards [by] it looks like three or four feet," he said. "I don't understand how that happened."

Melanie Watters, 54, and her friend Janine Reid, 55, both from London, were being driven through the mountains from Kandy in central Sri Lanka on Thursday when the road in front of them was swamped, sending a bus nearby over a cliff-edge. The women's own car was stuck in a ditch and at risk of being washed away, said Watters' daughter, Katie Beeching, but the friends and their driver had to stay in the vehicle overnight in worsening conditions.

For days before the explosions began, the business park had been emptying out. When the bombs went off, they took down empty office blocks and demolished echoing, multi-cuisine food halls. Dynamite toppled a four-storey hospital, silent karaoke complexes, deserted gyms and dorm rooms. So came the end of KK Park, one of south-east Asia's most infamous scam centres, press releases from Myanmar's junta declared. The facility had held tens of thousands of people, forced to relentlessly defraud people around the world.

The UN will make up the shortfall by cutting 2,681 positions across multiple UN agencies, which he said, correspond to functions that, in our opinion, can be done better by others or can be reduced by efficiencies. Some 18 percent of UN posts are already vacant due to its ongoing liquidity crisis from unpaid member dues and other debts, the secretary-general said.

St Lucian prime minister Philip Pierre's Labour party (SLP) has held its legislative majority, putting Pierre on course for reelection after a campaign centered on economic management, violent crime and passport sales. Official election results on Tuesday showed the social democratic SLP winning at least 13 seats in the small Caribbean island's 17-seat House of Assembly, matching its current majority with two seats left to be called.

The IACHR, part of the Organization of American States, is designed to promote and protect human rights in the Western Hemisphere. The US is a member, and in March the Trump administration's state department wrote: The United States is pleased to be a strong supporter of the IACHR and is committed to continuing support for the Commission's work and its independence. Preserving the IACHR's autonomy is a pillar of our human rights policy in the region.

Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla is accused of luring men to Russia in the latest scandal rocking the prominent Zuma family. A daughter of South Africa's former president, Jacob Zuma, on Friday resigned as a lawmaker after explosive allegations that she tricked 17 South African men into joining a Russian mercenary group to fight in Ukraine. Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla, who joined parliament in 2024 under her father's opposition uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party, is officially under a police investigation, but she denies allegations of involvement.

The meeting is expected to address borders, security guarantees, frozen Russian assets, and potential US-Russian investment projects. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov confirmed that Putin would receive Witkoff, whose role has been under the scanner after reports emerged that he advised a senior Kremlin aide on how to present a Ukraine peace plan to US President Donald Trump. "I think the administration feels very optimistic," White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Monday.

Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in the 1967 war and later illegally annexed the area, a move recognised by the United States but rejected by most of the international community. Then, after the fall of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in December 2024, it reneged on a 1974 agreement and expanded further into Syrian territory, seizing areas including the whole of Jabal al-Sheikh, a mountain that commands views over northern Israel and southern Syria.

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