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Google, Meta face record fines in South Korea over privacy violations
Google, Meta face record fines in South Korea over privacy violations
Business and Economy
by  AFP

South Korea has fined Google and Meta more than $71 million collectively for gathering users' personal information without consent for tailored ads, regulators said Wednesday, the country's highest-ever data protection fines. Regulators said the majority of the users in South Korea -- 82 percent for Google and 98 percent for Meta -- had unknowingly allowed them to collect data on their online use.

Two dead in shooting at Thai military facility
Two dead in shooting at Thai military facility
World
by  AFP

A Thai soldier killed two people and wounded one other in a shooting at a military facility in Bangkok on Wednesday, police and army officials said. In the aftermath of the shooting, police officers and soldiers guarded the gates of the facility, part of a large complex of military buildings in the north of the capital.

Health groups calls for fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty
Health groups calls for fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty
World
by  AFP

Around 200 health organisations and more than 1,400 health professionals on Wednesday called for governments to establish a binding international treaty on phasing out fossil fuels, which they said pose "a grave and escalating threat to human health". The WHO was among the health organisations from around the world who signed the letter.