WASHINGTON: TikTok announced Thursday it has established a majority American-owned joint venture to operate its US business, allowing the company to avoid a ban over its Chinese ownership. The TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC will serve more than 200 million users and 7.5 million businesses while implementing strict safeguards for
TOKYO, Japan: Japanese Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi, dissolved Parliament on Friday (Jan 23) ahead of a snap election on February 8, counting on her cabinet’s high poll numbers to steer her otherwise unpopular ruling party to victory. The country’s first woman premier announced her intentions on Monday, seeking public backing
MOUNT MAUNGANUI (New Zealand): Rescuers dug into deep mud searching for at least six missing people yesterday after a landslide from an extinct volcano crashed into a popular campsite in northern New Zealand. Police said a 15-year-old was the youngest person unaccounted for after a chunk of Mount Maunganui ploughed into
PARIS: Liverpool eased to a 3-0 win in Marseille in the Champions League on Thursday as Harry Kane’s double earned Bayern Munich a 2-0 victory against Union Saint-Gilloise that secured a place in the last 16 for the German giants. Arne Slot’s Liverpool extended their unbeaten run to 13 matches
DAVOS (Switzerland): US President Donald Trump descends on Davos for a showdown with European leaders as his bid to seize Greenland threatens to tear the transatlantic alliance apart. Trump mocked the Europeans a day before heading to the World Economic Forum, where he will be the star of a dark,
MADRID: Real Madrid midfielder Jude Bellingham said fans need to show “love” to Vinicius Junior and the rest of the team to get the best from them after Los Blancos hammered Monaco 6-1 in the Champions League on Tuesday. Vinicius scored and played a key part in three other goals
PARIS: Manchester City were on the wrong side of one of the biggest shocks in Champions League history on Tuesday, while holders Paris Saint-Germain also stumbled but Gabriel Jesus helped keep Arsenal perfect. Pep Guardiola’s Man City arrived in chilly Norway for their seventh and penultimate league-phase match against modest
RABAT: FIFA president, Gianni Infantino, condemned “some Senegal players” for the “unacceptable scenes” which overshadowed their victory in Sunday’s Africa Cup of Nations final when they left the pitch in protest at a penalty awarded to Morocco. African football’s showpiece event was marred by most of the Senegal team walking
ESCUINTLA: Guatemala’s president on Sunday declared a 30-day nationwide state of emergency to combat criminal gangs after authorities accused the groups of killing eight police officers and holding hostages at three prisons. The killings occurred in the Guatemalan capital and surrounding areas a day after gang-affiliated inmates took 46 people
LONDON, England: Prince Harry is to return to London this week for the trial into his claims that a UK newspaper group unlawfully gathered information, in the royal’s last case in his long-running crusade against the media. The trial, expected to last up to nine weeks, began at London’s High