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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s online safety regime came into force on Monday, requiring social media companies like Meta’s Facebook and ByteDance’s TikTok to take action to tackle criminal activity on their platforms and make them safer by design. Media regulator Ofcom said it had published its first codes of practice on tackling illegal harms such …

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By Andrea Mandala MILAN (Reuters) -Banca Akros, the investment bank of Banco BPM, said on Monday it had acted “properly and transparently” in handling last month’s placement of a 15% stake in Monte dei Paschi on behalf of the Rome government. The Financial Times reported on Monday that UniCredit had been unable to buy a …

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By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union plans for a new renewable energy goal hit early resistance on Monday from pro-nuclear governments, who indicated they would not back a goal that excludes atomic energy. The EU’s 27 member countries have opposing views on nuclear power, and political disputes over the energy source have delayed …

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By Friederike Heine and Andreas Rinke BERLIN (Reuters) -The German parliament accepted Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s invitation to withdraw its confidence in him and his government on Monday, clearing the way for an early election on Feb. 23 necessitated by the collapse of his government. Scholz’s three-party coalition fell apart last month after the pro-market Free …

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By Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The family of a Turkish-born American human rights activist killed by Israel in the occupied West Bank pleaded with Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday for a U.S. probe into her killing but got no promises, the woman’s husband said. Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, was shot dead on Sept. …

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By Jeffrey Dastin, Kenrick Cai and Anna Tong VANCOUVER (Reuters) – Deep in the cavernous convention center here, on math-filled posters or in spirited conversations, could be a breakthrough for artificial intelligence in the making. More than 16,000 computer scientists and fellow travelers gathered in British Columbia over the past week for what has become …

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