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November 02, (THEWILL) - Facebook’s parent company Meta, has shut down a “troll farm” run by the Nicaraguan Government. Meta said the network comprising 937 Facebook accounts, 140 pages, 24 groups, and 363 Instagram accounts were run by the government...

November 02, (THEWILL) - Amnesty International (AI) and the Stop Killer Robots campaign, on Tuesday, unveiled a social media filter which provides a terrifying glimpse of the future of war, policing and border control. The global campaign is demanding a...

October 31, (THEWILL) - His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, has directed granting Golden Visas to “frontline heroes” and their families. Those eligible include the...

October 31, (THEWILL) - Indonesia’s President, Joko Widodo, has urged richer countries to share their vaccines with poorer ones, in an exclusive interview with the BBC. Mr Widodo said it “shouldn’t be just a few countries that get all...

October 31, (THEWILL) - President Joe Biden has arrived in Europe ahead of next week’s key UN climate summit, with his signature climate policy yet to pass through the US Congress. The president’s $1.75 trillion (£1.2tn) Build Back Better social...

October 31, (THEWILL) - In a message recorded exclusively for the BBC, Pope Francis has called on world leaders meeting next week at the UN Climate conference in Glasgow to provide “effective responses” to the environment emergency and offer...

October 31, (THEWILL) - Sixteen people have been evacuated from a burning container ship off Canada’s Pacific coast. The Zim Kingston ship is expelling toxic gas but officials said there is “no safety risk” to people on land. The ship...

October 30, (THEWILL) - Sudan’s six-day-old military junta will face its most serious challenge on Saturday with pro-democracy groups, civilian politicians and trade unions calling for mass demonstrations against Monday’s coup. Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the coup leader, has announced...

October 29, (THEWILL) - A Malaysian gynaecologist, John Tang Ing Chinh, has invented what he says is the world’s first unisex condom. Tang, who is a gynaecologist at medical supplies firm, Twin Catalyst, said the condom is made from a...

October 27, (THEWILL) - The African Union (AU) has suspended Sudan pending a return to civilian rule. The AU said it “strongly condemns the seizure of power” and was suspending Sudan from all AU activities “until the effective restoration of...