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Congolese President Félix Shisekedi has claimed that Rwanda is in violation of a newly signed agreement as M23 fighter jets reportedly advance toward Uvira.Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) President Félix Tshisekedi has accused Rwanda of violating a newly signed US-brokered peace deal as the Kigali-backed M23 armed group advances rapidly into towns near the border with Burundi.Tshisekedi told lawmakers on Monday that Rwandan forces had carried out attacks in several locations in South Kivu province in the days since he and his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame signed a peace deal aimed at ending the years-long conflict in Washington, D.C., on…

brisbane, australia — Children across Australia will wake up on Wednesday without access to their social media accounts in a world-first ban aimed at protecting under-16s from addictive algorithms, online predators and digital bullying. No other country has taken such drastic measures, and the implementation of this tough new law is being closely watched by lawmakers around the world. Most of the 10 banned platforms, including Instagram, Facebook, Threads, Snapchat, YouTube, TikTok, Kick, Reddit, Twitch, and X, say they use age verification technology to identify people under 16 and comply with the ban by suspending their accounts, but they don’t…

Sheena Leven says she learned two important lessons when she founded her first company, CodeSee. The first lesson was knowing the difference between what the business needs and what sounds visionary. Second, even with new technologies such as AI, the fundamentals always apply. “Security, compliance, reliability, quality, these don’t just go away in enterprise applications,” she said. After CodeSee was acquired in 2024, Leven decided he wanted to build a product that would allow business owners without a technical background to build AI applications. She teamed up with AI researcher Shaun Robinson, and last October the two launched Empromptu, an…

Chris Bloomfield, 50, had been in the carpentry contracting business for years before deciding to use what he learned working on other people’s homes to help secure a lucrative future for his family.In 2015, Bloomfield and his wife purchased five acres of land in Remsen, New York for $27,000. It was close to where Bloomfield grew up and not far from the nearby property owned by his brother.”I realized that carpentry is based on knowledge and experience, and I couldn’t pass that on to my children,” Bloomfield told CNBC Make It. “So we needed to build something that would at…

Deadly fighting has broken out between Thailand and Cambodia, weeks after the two countries signed a ceasefire agreement in Malaysia presided over by US President Donald Trump.Now, a peace deal brokered by President Trump is on the verge of collapse after soldiers from the two Southeast Asian neighbors clashed again on Monday. Clashes continued for a second day, leaving at least 12 people dead on both sides and thousands displaced.Recommended stories list of 4 itemsend of listFive days of fighting in July left nearly 50 people dead and 300,000 displaced before President Trump intervened to broker a ceasefire.President Trump has…

Lewis Hamilton has said he will “step away from the Matrix” during F1’s winter break after a tough first season with Ferrari.Hamilton failed to finish on the podium for the first time in an F1 season, finishing 86 points behind Ferrari teammate Charles Leclerc in the drivers’ championship. The 40-year-old, who previously described 2025 as the “worst season ever” and a “nightmare”, will test tires in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday before taking a full break from F1 until a few weeks before pre-season testing at the end of January. “At the moment I’m just looking forward to the rest of…

Nina Potenza, 54, is chief human resources officer at IKEA US and has been with the company for 32 years.She joined the company right after graduating from university in the UK (her hometown) to work in payroll. Admittedly, she wasn’t really interested in the work itself, but she “liked” the company’s approach to Swedish design.”I would say that on the first phone call, I was very attracted to the brand more than the job,” Potenza told CNBC Make It.Not only was she passionate about working with brands, but she also wanted to work for a global company that would give…

google on Tuesday came under EU antitrust investigation over its use of online content for AI purposes, the latest in a series of EU crackdowns on regulating big U.S. tech companies. The European Commission said it was investigating whether Google breached EU competition rules by using content from web publishers and uploaded to online video sharing platform YouTube for AI purposes.The commission said its investigation will examine whether Google distorts competition by imposing unfair contract terms on publishers and content creators, or by giving itself privileged access to content and putting developers of competing AI models at a disadvantage. Teresa…

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer welcomes Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy outside 10 Downing Street ahead of talks in London on December 8, 2025. Viktor Simanovich | Future Publishing | Getty ImagesUkraine’s European allies said on Monday that President Volodymyr Zelensky was preparing to share a revised peace plan with the United States, saying the war was at a “critical juncture.”President Zelensky met with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and French President Emmanuel Macron in London as European leaders scrambled to ensure Ukraine’s territorial integrity and future security was not compromised in the face of increasing pressure…

Reuters — Police and soldiers were called into action in Tanzania’s commercial capital, Dar es Salaam, on Tuesday to try to stop protests called by activists who condemned the violent crackdown on demonstrations before and after October elections. The government said any protests on Tuesday, the anniversary of mainland Tanzania’s independence from Britain in 1961, constituted a coup attempt and urged people to stay at home. Presidential and parliamentary elections on October 29 sparked the worst political violence in Tanzania’s post-independence history. The United Nations estimates that hundreds of people died. Residents told Reuters police and military were patrolling Dar…