With one puff of a cigarette, a woman in Canada became a global symbol of defiance against Iran's bloody crackdown on dissent — and the world saw the flame. A video that has gone viral in recent days shows the woman — who described herself as an Iranian refugee — snapping open a lighter and setting the flame to a photo she holds.

More than 4.7 million social media accounts belonging to Australians under the age of 16 have been removed since the nation's new social media youth ban went into effect last month, Canberra announced Friday.

Across Europe, exiled Iranians are voicing anger at the Islamic Republic's crackdown on protests, which reportedly killed thousands.

Ukraine's energy minister says Russia has attacked every Ukrainian power plant since its invasion. Denys Shmyhal on Friday reported 612 attacks on energy infrastructure over the past year.

The U.S. Court of Appeals vacated a previous order on Jan. 15 that secured Khalil’s release from detention and temporarily blocked his deportation.

TikTok will start rolling out new age-detection technology across Europe in the coming weeks, it told Reuters on Friday, as the ByteDance-owned platform faces regulatory pressure to better identify and remove accounts belonging to children under 13.

Myanmar insisted Friday that its deadly military campaign against the Rohingya ethnic minority was a legitimate counter-terrorism operation and did not amount to genocide, as it defended itself at the top United Nations court against an allegation of breaching the genocide convention.

As concerns grow of a potential war between the United States and Iran, experts told Newsweek that the U.S. military has used up parts of its stockpile in recent years but remains “powerful.” The relationship between the United States and Iran,