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There are new safety features coming to the wildly-popular gaming platform, Roblox, after major safety concerns and multiple lawsuits accusing the company of not doing enough to protect its young users from online predators. Users will now be asked to verify their age with a government ID or AI-powered face scanning technology if they want access to all of the platform’s features. NBC’s Vicky Nguyen reports for TODAY with an exclusive first look at the changes set to take effect on Tuesday.

A blaze on June 15 amid Russia's all-out invasion of Ukraine is the latest war wound inflicted on Kyiv's centuries-old Pechersk Lavra, the most iconic religious landmark in the Ukrainian capital.

In Thaksin Shinawatra’s hometown outside Chiang Mai, neighbours say they hope the royal pardon gifted to the tycoon offers Thailand’s most loved – and quite possibly, most loathed – politician a chance to exit the kingdom’s bear-pit politics ahead of his 77th birthday. But after eight months in jail, a coup against his government, a battery of legal cases, threats to his family, assets – and even his life – those hitched to the Shinawatra bandwagon since Thaksin won his first election in 2001...

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Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock has said that Democrats must be ready to pack the Supreme Court and impose term limits if or when they take back power. The post Sen. Raphael Warnock Says Packing The Supreme Court and Imposing Term Limits ‘On The Table’ When Democrats Take Back Power (VIDEO) appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

Beijing’s long-standing efforts to reinvigorate the domestic economy continue to face headwinds, as the latest credit data points to persistently sluggish consumption and weak investment across China, with the tech sector standing out as a lone bright spot amid the central government’s push for innovation to reduce external reliance. New bank loans totalled 520 billion yuan (US$77 billion) in May, according to People’s Bank of China data released on Friday. The figure trailed the 620 billion...

Japan is falling into a trap in defending its currency against the US dollar, like Thailand in 1996. Japan’s large forex reserves make the yen a juicy target, rather than deterring currency predators. Its fundamentals are weak and deteriorating, making the yen’s further decline inevitable. Japan can’t raise interest rates aggressively to defend its currency due to its high national debt. It could fall into an inflation-devaluation spiral, greatly profiting yen short-sellers. The yen is trading...

Roblox gave NBC News an exclusive look at the biometric age-checking tool that, starting this month, will be used to place the platform’s users into age-based accounts.

A pair of senators plans to introduce a bill Monday that would centralize federal efforts to fight scams and help Americans obtain information about how to identify fraud.Sens.

The president’s peace deal has been critiqued as lacking in substance and not being as complete as he has claimed

Property and a car linked to the prime minister were targeted in arson attacks last year.

A Hong Kong court has awarded HK$6.29 million (US$802,698) in damages to a dancer left paralysed after being struck by a falling giant screen during a concert by Cantopop boy band Mirror four years ago. In a written judgment on Monday, the District Court ruled that Mo Li Kai-yin was entitled to substantial damages from his employer, Studiodanz, under the Employees’ Compensation Ordinance after suffering from “catastrophic” injuries in the accident at Hong Kong Coliseum on July 28, 2022. Judge...