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This live blog follows updates for Day 69 of the US-Israel war on Iran. For a recap of Day 68, go <a href="https://www.pakistantv.com/article/us-israel-war-on-iran-day-68" style="color:#0073e6;">here</a>.<hr style="line-height: 2;"><ul style="list-style-type: square;"><li id="isPasted" style="line-height: 2;">US stocks reach record highs as oil prices sharply decline</li><li id="isPasted" style="line-height: 2;">Trump says a potential Iran agreement remains highly achievable now</li><li id="isPasted" style="line-height: 2;">Iran and United States continue indirect communication through Pakistani mediation</li><li id="isPasted" style="line-height: 2;">Washington and Tehran review proposals concerning Strait of Hormuz tensions</li><li id="isPasted" style="line-height: 2;">Regional leaders welcome diplomatic efforts aimed at reducing Middle East conflict</li></ul><hr style="line-height: 2;"> US stocks break records, oil tumblesPublished: May 6, 2026 | 22:25 GMT | by AFP World oil prices dove and US stock markets rallied on fresh hopes for an end to the war in the Middle East, as Trump said a deal with Iran was &quot;very possible.&quot; The S&amp;P 500 and Nasdaq, two of the major US stock indices, finished at records for the second consecutive day, while international oil benchmark Brent North Sea finished down 7.8%at $101.27 a barrel. <hr style="line-height: 2;"> Trump says Iran deal &#39;very possible&#39; following latest talksPublished: May 6, 2026 | 20:39 GMT | by Web Desk US President Donald Trump has said that it was &quot;very possible&quot; that they would make a deal with Iran, adding that countries had &nbsp;&quot;very good talks over the last 24 hours.&quot; &quot;With that being said, they want to make a deal. We&#39;ve had very good talks over the last 24 hours, and it&#39;s very possible that we&#39;ll make a deal.&quot; <hr style="line-height: 2;"> Iran says messages with US still exchanged via PakistanPublished: May 6, 2026 | 15:55 GMT | by Web Desk Iran&rsquo;s Foreign Ministry said diplomatic contacts with the United States remain active through Pakistani mediation, but Tehran has not yet issued a formal response to Washington&rsquo;s latest proposal. &ldquo;Messages are being exchanged through the Pakistani mediator, and reviews regarding the exchanged texts are ongoing,&rdquo; Iran Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said, according to Tehran&rsquo;s state broadcaster Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting.

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Says operations are being paused “for a short period of time” to see whether the deal can be finalized and signed; Iranian counterpart says Tehran remains open to talks but will not yield to pressure; Pakistan’s prime minister hopes for a "lasting agreement" to end the Iran war, thanks US president for pausing Project Freedom.

Trump says Iran deal 'very possible' following latest talks

MADRID: A cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak will reach the Spanish island of Tenerife &quot;within three days,&rdquo; with the evacuation of passengers to start from May 11, Spain said on Wednesday. The fate of the MV Hondius has sparked international alarm after three people travelling on the ship died, though World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus insisted the outbreak was not comparable to the Covid pandemic. One passenger, Ruhi Cenet, a 35-year-old Turkish travel vlogger, said what started out as an idyllic voyage turned chaotic when the ship&#39;s captain announced on April 12 that a passenger had died. &quot;He said it was due to natural causes,&quot; Cenet told AFP. &quot;They didn&#39;t even consider the possibility of having such a contagious disease,&quot; he added. &quot;They didn&#39;t take the problem seriously enough.&quot; The WHO said emergency crews evacuated three people &mdash; two sick crew members and another person who had been in contact with one of the confirmed cases &mdash; from the ship Wednesday, which later left its anchorage off Cape Verde and headed for Spain&#39;s Canary Islands. After being taken from the ship to an ambulance boat by medical personnel in hazmat suits, the three evacuees later boarded flights at the airport in Cape Verde&#39;s capital Praia. A medical plane carrying two evacuated passengers landed at Amsterdam Airport in the Netherlands at 1747 GMT, according to AFP reporters at the scene. German emergency services said they had picked up one evacuee in Amsterdam who came into contact with an infected person on board the ship, and were transporting the individual to a hospital in Dusseldorf. Another medical plane landed at Las Palmas in the Canary Islands earlier Wednesday, an AFP journalist there saw. Spanish officials said that plane had landed because of a &quot;broken isolation bubble.&quot; Spain&#39;s health ministry said a new plane would be needed to travel on to the Netherlands. Low global risk: WHO Experts confirmed the version of the virus detected aboard the Hondius was a rare strain known as the Andes virus, the only one that can be transmitted between humans. The first person to have the virus on the ship could not have been infected during the cruise, given the one- to six-week incubation period, WHO expert Anais Legand told AFP. The ship left Ushuaia, Argentina, on April 1, and the first death occurred on April 11. Argentine officials said the first couple killed had visited Chile, Uruguay and Argentina before the cruise. They said experts would travel to Ushuaia to test rodents there for hantavirus. Argentina has seen an increase in hantavirus cases, but not an outbreak, expert Raul Gonzalez Ittig told AFP. Health officials played down fears of a wider global outbreak from the virus, which is less contagious than Covid. UN health agency chief Tedros told AFP it was not like the Covid-19 pandemic, adding: &quot;The risk to the rest of the world is low.&quot; The ship has been at the center of an international health scare since Saturday, when the WHO was informed that three passengers had died and the suspected cause was hantavirus. The rare respiratory disease is usually spread from infected rodents, typically through urine, droppings and saliva. A Dutch man died on board on April 11, and his wife, who left the ship to accompany his body to South Africa, died there 15 days later after also falling ill. Two other people are still being treated &mdash; one in Johannesburg and one in the Swiss city of Zurich. Two people who returned to the UK from the ship have been advised to self-isolate, the UK Health Security Agency said, adding they were asymptomatic and insisting the risk to the public was &quot;very low.&quot; Spanish Health Minister Monica Garcia Gomez said the vessel would dock within the next three days in Tenerife, in the Canaries, and all foreign passengers would be flown back to their home countries from there if their health allowed. Contact tracing The Dutch woman who died had flown on a commercial plane from the island of Saint Helena to Johannesburg while she was showing symptoms. Officials were trying to trace people on that flight, which South African-based carrier Airlink said was carrying 82 passengers and six crew. Fueling fears of further contact, Dutch airline KLM said on Wednesday that one of the people who died from the virus had been &quot;briefly&quot; on its flight from Johannesburg to the Netherlands on April 25, but was removed before take-off. The cruise ship originally counted 88 passengers and 59 crew, with 23 nationalities on board.

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The fate of the MV Hondius has sparked international alarm after three people travelling on the ship died, though World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus insisted the outbreak was not comparable to the Covid pandemic.

Virus-hit cruise ship heads for Spain as evacuees land in Europe

WASHINGTON: A US judge on Wednesday released a suicide note purportedly written by convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein weeks before his death in a New York jailhouse. Epstein&#39;s cellmate has said that he found the letter in a book following a failed suicide attempt by the disgraced financier, several weeks before his eventual August 2019 death. &quot;They investigated me for months &mdash; Found NOTHING!!!&quot; the text of the letter, written on lined paper, reads. &quot;It is a treat to be able to choose one&#39;s time to say goodbye.&quot; The text concludes with, &quot;Watcha want me to do &mdash; Bust out cryin!! No fun &mdash; NOT WORTH IT!!&quot; The letter had been sealed for years as part of the cellmate&#39;s criminal proceedings, but was released by Judge Kenneth Karas of the US District Court for Southern New York after a request by the New York Times. While the document has not been authenticated, its release comes as questions continue to swirl about the well-connected financier&#39;s death while awaiting sex trafficking charges. His death was ruled a suicide, but numerous security lapses at the jail and missing CCTV footage have led to persistent doubts about the official account. Epstein was found injured in his cell in late July 2019, in what officials said was a failed suicide attempt. It was ahead of this earlier incident that the letter was purported to be written and stuffed into a graphic novel. The Epstein saga has continued to roil American and British politics, as documents related to the expansive investigation into the financier&#39;s life have been released in previous months.

Epstein's cellmate has said that he found the letter in a book following a failed suicide attempt by the disgraced financier, several weeks before his eventual August 2019 death.



US court releases purported Epstein suicide note

MUNICH: Holders Paris Saint-Germain booked a Champions League final against Arsenal as a 1-1 draw in their semi-final second leg at Bayern Munich on Wednesday sealed a 6-5 aggregate victory. Leading 5-4 after last week&#39;s thrilling first leg in Paris, Luis Enrique&#39;s side stretched their overall advantage early on through Ousmane Dembele. Harry Kane struck in added time for Bayern, but it was too late for a comeback. PSG will be favorites against Premier League leaders Arsenal on May 30 in Budapest after an excellent defensive display at the Allianz Arena, also the scene of their maiden Champions League final triumph over Inter Milan last year. The French giants are hoping to become only the second back-to-back winners since 1990, after Real Madrid. Bayern were angered by some first-half refereeing decisions but were largely toothless in attack. The six-time European champions have still not reached the final since beating PSG in the 2020 showpiece in Lisbon. PSG extended their aggregate lead to two goals in just the third minute, as Dembele fired the ball into the roof of the net from Khvicha Kvaratskhelia&#39;s cutback. Manuel Neuer made fine second-half saves from Kvaratskhelia and Desire Doue to keep Bayern in the tie. Kane drilled in his 14th goal in the competition this season in the fourth minute of injury time, but it was too little, too late for the home team.

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PSG will be favorites against Premier League leaders Arsenal on May 30 in Budapest after an excellent defensive display at the Allianz Arena, also the scene of their maiden Champions League final triumph over Inter Milan last year.

PSG knock out Bayern to set up Champions League final with Arsenal

GAZA CITY: Gaza health officials said Israeli strikes killed six people across the Palestinian territory on Wednesday and wounded several others, including the son of Hamas&#39;s chief negotiator. Despite an October ceasefire, Gaza remains gripped by daily violence as Israeli strikes continue, with both the military and Hamas accusing one another of violating the truce. &quot;Five people have been killed since this morning in strikes by the occupation on the Gaza Strip,&quot; the civil defence agency, which operates as a rescue service under Hamas, said. Gaza City&#39;s Al-Ahli hospital reported receiving &quot;three dead and a number of wounded following an Israeli drone strike on the Zeitoun neighbourhood, southeast of Gaza City&quot;. A separate strike on the Al-Daraj neighbourhood of Gaza City killed one person and wounded 10 others, including the son of Hamas&#39;s chief negotiator Khalil al-Hayya, the hospital and a security source said. Azzam Khalil Al-Hayya has been &quot;seriously wounded in the Israeli airstrike&quot;, the security source told AFP. Two more people were killed and more than a dozen wounded in Israeli attacks in other parts of the territory, the civil defence agency and hospitals said. One of the two was a Hamas police officer, according to a security source. The ceasefire has largely halted the Gaza war that began after Hamas&#39;s October 7, 2023 attack on Israel. But violence has persisted, with at least 837 Palestinians killed since the truce began, according to Gaza&#39;s health ministry, which operates under Hamas authority and whose figures are considered reliable by the United Nations. Over the same period, the Israeli military said five soldiers have been killed in Gaza.

Despite an October ceasefire, Gaza remains gripped by daily violence as Israeli strikes continue, with both the military and Hamas accusing one another of violating the truce.

Gaza health officials say Israeli strikes kill 6

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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and the United States are further strengthening their economic partnership through expanding trade and investment engagement, as senior officials from both countries highlighted the growing importance of commercial cooperation during engagements held under the SelectUSA program.&nbsp;According to a statement issued by the Pakistan Embassy in Washington, Pakistan&rsquo;s Ambassador to the United States Rizwan Saeed Sheikh hosted a dinner at Pakistan House in honor of leading Pakistani business representatives visiting the US under SelectUSA, where Pakistani and American officials underscored the increasing centrality of economic cooperation in bilateral relations.&nbsp;The reception was attended by US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Paul Kapur, US Consul General in Karachi Charles Goodman, and senior officials from the US State Department and Department of Commerce.&nbsp;The Pakistan embassy said 16 representatives from nine major Pakistani companies from diverse sectors are currently visiting the United States under the SelectUSA program to explore investment opportunities and strengthen business partnerships.&nbsp;The visit comes amid renewed momentum in Pakistan-US relations, particularly in trade, investment and strategic economic cooperation.&nbsp;Recent high-level engagements between the leadership of the two countries, including interactions involving Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Pakistan military chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, with US President Donald Trump, have contributed to broadening bilateral engagement beyond traditional security cooperation toward economic connectivity and investment facilitation.&nbsp;According to the statement, Ambassador Sheikh said Islamabad and Washington were entering a new phase in bilateral relations anchored in economic cooperation and long-term commercial partnerships.&nbsp;The embassy quoted him as saying that bilateral political and economic relations between Pakistan and the United States were &ldquo;not optional but inevitable&rdquo; given the size, strategic relevance and economic potential of both countries.&nbsp;Ambassador Sheikh, according to the statement, said Pakistan&rsquo;s national security policy had increasingly adopted geo-economics as a central pillar in recent years, reflecting Islamabad&rsquo;s strategic focus on economic stability and connectivity.&nbsp;Referring to recent regional developments, the ambassador said increased commercial activity at Karachi Port during the Middle East crisis had further highlighted Pakistan&rsquo;s geographic and strategic importance.&nbsp;&ldquo;The business communities of both countries should fully benefit from Pakistan&rsquo;s geographical importance and the economic opportunities available in the country,&rdquo; Ambassador Sheikh said.&nbsp;He added that the leadership of both countries remained committed to promoting bilateral economic cooperation and utilizing the full potential of the relationship.&nbsp;The Pakistan embassy said US Assistant Secretary Paul Kapur told participants that Pakistan-US relations had remained important despite historical fluctuations and that the present phase offered significant opportunities for economic cooperation.&nbsp;&ldquo;While the security dimension remains important, economic relations now hold central importance in bilateral ties,&rdquo; Kapur said, according to the embassy statement.&nbsp;Kapur said economic security had become increasingly intertwined with national security and noted that there were &ldquo;countless opportunities&rdquo; to strengthen economic cooperation between the two countries.&nbsp;&ldquo;As friends and partners, we must work together to capitalize on these opportunities,&rdquo; Kapur said. &ldquo;That is our future.&rdquo;&nbsp;Separately, the US Embassy in Islamabad highlighted the growing economic engagement through a video message shared on its official Facebook account from the 2026 SelectUSA Investment Summit in National Harbor, Maryland.&nbsp;In the video message, Consul General Charles Goodman said the Pakistani delegation was actively engaging with American businesses and exploring new opportunities in the US market.&nbsp;&ldquo;From Pakistan to the US, business leaders are making connections here at SelectUSA 2026 in National Harbor, Maryland,&rdquo; Goodman said in the video released by the US embassy.&nbsp;&ldquo;Pakistan&rsquo;s delegation is meeting with partners from across the US, exploring new markets and taking meaningful steps to expand their footprint here in the world&rsquo;s largest economy,&rdquo; he said.&nbsp;The US embassy quoted Goodman as describing the summit as a practical example of expanding bilateral economic cooperation.&nbsp;&ldquo;This is what US-Pakistan economic cooperation and partnership looks like&hellip; driving investment and building shared prosperity,&rdquo; Goodman said.&nbsp;&ldquo;We look forward to these conversations turning into lasting collaborations and genuine business deals,&rdquo; he added.&nbsp;The diplomatic mission said the SelectUSA initiative was creating new pathways for Pakistani businesses to access the American market and build long-term partnerships with US companies.

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Pakistan and the United States are further strengthening their economic partnership through expanding trade and investment engagement, as senior officials from both countries highlighted the growing importance of commercial cooperation during engagements held under the SelectUSA program

At SelectUSA Summit, Pakistani firms explore US market opportunities

BEERSHEVA: An Israeli court on Wednesday rejected an appeal contesting the detention of two foreign activists seized by Israeli forces from a Gaza-bound flotilla, with the rights group representing them denouncing the ruling as &quot;unlawful.&quot; Saif Abu Keshek, a Spanish national of Palestinian origin, and Brazilian Thiago Avila were among dozens of activists aboard a flotilla intercepted in international waters off the coast of Greece on Thursday. The two were seized by Israeli forces and brought to Israel for questioning, while the others were taken to the Greek island of Crete and released. On Tuesday, an Israeli court extended their detention until Sunday to allow police more time to interrogate them, according to their lawyers. The lawyers then filed an appeal at the Beersheva district court against the detention, but it was rejected. &quot;Today, the district court of Beersheva denied our appeal and basically accepted all of the arguments that the state or the police have represented before the court and kept the previous decision,&quot; lawyer Hadeel Abu Salih said. The two activists, who are on a hunger strike, had appeared in the district court with their feet shackled, an AFP journalist saw. Abu Keshek looked exhausted and sat with his hands clasped in his lap, while Avila appeared calm. Abu Salih said her clients had been subjected to &quot;an illegal arrest that took place in international waters where the activists were kidnapped by the Israeli navy without any authority.&quot; She went on to accuse the courts of &quot;giving a free hand for the Israeli forces... to do it again and again.&quot; &#39;Unlawful and unreasonable&#39;Israeli rights group Adalah, which is representing the pair, called Wednesday&#39;s court decision &quot;unlawful and unreasonable&quot;. &quot;This is especially egregious given that the activists were abducted from an Italian-flagged vessel, placing them under Italian jurisdiction,&quot; it said. Adalah has also accused the authorities of subjecting the men to continuous abuse in detention, including keeping Avila in a cold cell. Abu Salih said Abu Keshek reported giving up water as well as food, and that the two men said authorities &quot;keep interrogating them for most of the time, most of the day&quot; about the flotilla, she added. Israeli authorities have rejected the allegations of abuse but have filed no charges against the men. Adalah said authorities have accused the pair of &quot;assisting the enemy during wartime&quot; and &quot;membership in and providing services to a terrorist organisation.&quot; Israel says both men were affiliated with the Popular Conference for Palestinians Abroad (PCPA), a group accused by Washington of &quot;clandestinely acting on behalf of&quot; Palestinian militant group Hamas. Spain, Brazil and the United Nations have called for their swift release. &quot;It is not a crime to show solidarity and attempt to bring humanitarian aid to the Palestinian population in Gaza, who are in dire need of it,&quot; UN rights office spokesman Thameen Al-Kheetan said in a statement. The flotilla had set sail from France, Spain and Italy with the aim of breaking Israel&#39;s blockade of Gaza and delivering humanitarian aid to the war-ravaged Palestinian territory. Israel controls all entry points into Gaza, which has been under an Israeli blockade since 2007.

An Israeli court on Wednesday rejected an appeal contesting the detention of two foreign activists seized by Israeli forces from a Gaza-bound flotilla, with the rights group representing them denouncing the ruling as "unlawful."

Israeli court rejects flotilla activists' appeal challenging detention

WASHINGTON: Elon Musk&#39;s SpaceX plans to invest at least $55 billion to build a semiconductor manufacturing facility in Texas, according to a public notice Wednesday, producing chips for artificial intelligence, robotics and data centers in space. The world&#39;s richest person has said the facility, dubbed Terafab, would be run jointly by his electric-vehicle firm Tesla and his rocket company SpaceX. Initial investment would be &quot;$55 billion, with an estimated total capital investment (if additional phases are constructed) of $119 billion&quot;, according to a notice of public hearing in Grimes County, Texas, where the facility will be located, about 70 miles (110 kilometers) northwest of Houston. Terafab &quot;would represent a transformative investment in domestic semiconductor manufacturing capacity&quot;, according to a description of the project in the notice. Musk, who has no prior experience in semiconductors, has said Terafab is necessary because Tesla and SpaceX&#39;s demand for computing power is expected to far exceed that of global chip suppliers. Eventually, the project aims to make chips to support 100 to 200 gigawatts of computing power on Earth, and a terawatt in space. The Grimes County commissioners court was set to meet on June 3 to discuss approving a property tax abatement for the project, according to the notice.

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Elon Musk's SpaceX plans to invest at least $55 billion to build a semiconductor manufacturing facility in Texas

Musk to spend $55B on SpaceX AI chip project in Texas: Notice

ISLAMABAD: Indian cinema superstar Vijay has made a dramatic political debut, as his two-year-old party, Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam, emerged as the largest party in the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections. The party won 108 seats in the 234-member assembly, falling just 10 seats short of the 118 needed for a simple majority, NDTV reported. Congress, which won five seats, has decided to back Vijay, taking his support to 113 seats.&nbsp; Vijay is now expected to form the government with support from smaller parties and former allies of the defeated Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam. NDTV reported that TVK leaders are also counting on backing from the CPI, CPM and VCK, each of which has two seats. The result marks a major rupture in Tamil Nadu politics, which has for decades been dominated by the DMK and AIADMK. The DMK won 59 seats, while the AIADMK secured 47, according to NDTV&rsquo;s reported tally.&nbsp; The defeat was particularly striking for Chief Minister M.K. Stalin, who lost his Kolathur stronghold to a TVK candidate. For Vijay, known to millions of fans as &ldquo;Thalapathy,&rdquo; the result has transformed star power into real political authority. Economic Times reported that TVK&rsquo;s campaign relied heavily on a digital-first strategy, using teaser-style messaging, viral videos and tightly controlled online outreach to energize younger voters and convert fan networks into a political base.&nbsp; The Times of India reported that TVK&rsquo;s performance was not uniform across the state, noting that the party won only two of 18 seats in the Cauvery delta region. However, even there, it finished second or third in several constituencies, showing that its influence extended beyond traditional urban pockets.&nbsp; Party leaders hailed the win as historic. K.A. Sengottaiyan, chief coordinator of TVK&rsquo;s high-level steering committee, said the party had secured a massive victory in its debut election without distributing cash to voters.&nbsp; The result has immediately made Vijay one of India&rsquo;s most-watched regional leaders.&nbsp;

Talapathy Vijay - (Photo: Vijay's Instagram )

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Actor-turned-politician Vijay’s TVK emerges as Tamil Nadu’s largest party in its first election, disrupting status quo dominance and positioning the superstar to form the next government.

Indian superstar Vijay scores blockbuster win in debut election

JAKARTA: Indonesia&#39;s government is mulling an e-commerce ban for under-16s, the communications minister told AFP Wednesday, hot on the heels of Jakarta imposing a sweeping social media prohibition for teens. &quot;E-commerce (platforms) are next, because we found children who became scam victims through e-commerce,&quot; Communications and Digital Minister Meutya Hafid said in an interview in Jakarta, without providing further details. In March, app-addicted Indonesia started enforcing a social media ban for under-16s in a bid to shield some 70 million children from the threats of online pornography, cyberbullying, and internet addiction. The policy followed Australia&#39;s landmark move in December to stop teenagers from holding accounts on many popular platforms. The Indonesian regulation initially targeted eight &quot;high risk&quot; platforms: YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, X, Bigo Live, and Roblox. But it will eventually apply to &quot;all digital platforms&quot;, Meutya said Wednesday, including online shopping sites. The Southeast Asian archipelago of more than 284 million people boasts one of the highest concentrations of social media users in the world. Meutya said the government aimed to help parents take on the &quot;big platforms&quot; to protect their children. &quot;Letting them face off against (the platforms) alone, without rules, is like letting parents play chess against a grandmaster. They won&#39;t win, or it will be very hard to win,&quot; Meutya told AFP. Global reckoning&nbsp;Roblox became the latest platform to comply with the new regulations, introducing age-verification technology and restricting content based on users&#39; ages, the government said last week. More than half of Roblox&#39;s 45 million Indonesian users are children under 16, the government said. Social media giants are facing a global reckoning as governments increasingly worry about their impact on users&#39; well-being. The Turkish parliament last month approved a law to prevent children under 15 from accessing social media platforms. Some European countries, including Norway, Greece, France, Spain, and Denmark, have said they will introduce similar restrictions. Like in Australia, the Indonesian rules place the onus on platforms to regulate teen access. Non-compliance with the ban, which will be phased in over time, will put defaulters at risk of a fine or even suspension of their services in the country.

This illustration photograph taken on October 30, 2023, shows the X (former Twitter) logo on a smartphone in Mulhouse, eastern France. (AFP/File)

The policy follows Australia's landmark move in December to stop teenagers from having accounts on many popular platforms.

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