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₹111 crore)) for acquiring user data through an app that claimed to safeguard privacy but failed to disclose its data collection activities. Also, the Federal Court of Australia has ruled that Meta, along with its subsidiaries Facebook Israel and the previously discontinued app Onavo, must also bear the legal costs of A$400,000 ( ₹2.2 crore) to be paid to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, the party responsible for initiating the civil lawsuit, Reuters reported. The Australian government led by Anthony Albanese has unveiled a series of planned amendments to the Privacy Act aimed at modernising the legislation in the digital era.

A third successive heat wave in Greece pushed temperatures back above 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) across parts of the country following more nighttime evacuations from fires that have raged out of control for days

TEL AVIV, Israel — The Israeli government’s adoption of the first part of a controversial judicial overhaul on Monday unleashed turbulence in the streets of Israel and in the halls of the Knesset.

far-right coalition led by the prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu. The law all but eliminates the court’s ability to overturn government decisions on the grounds of “reasonableness". Since the coalition presented its plans nearly eight months ago, hundreds of thousands of Israelis have taken to the streets in protest.

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Benjamin Netanyahu, after last-gasp compromise efforts collapsed and failed to ease a constitutional crisis convulsing the country for months. The amendment limiting the Supreme Court's powers to void some government decisions if it deemed them «unreasonable» passed by a 64-to-0 vote after opposition lawmakers abandoned the session in protest, some of them shouting: «For shame!» Demonstrations against the amendment began early in the day with police dragging away protesters who had chained themselves to posts and blocked the road outside parliament.

release from the hospital, where he had undergone the implantation of a pacemaker, adding yet another dramatic twist to the ongoing events. While Netanyahu's supporters celebrated their triumph and pledged to proceed with further reforms, thousands of protesters took to the streets in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv to express their opposition.  Moreover, opponents of the law stated their intentions to challenge it in the Supreme Court, signaling a continued struggle over the proposed changes in the country's justice system.  “It’s a sad day," Associated Press quoted Opposition leader Yair Lapid as saying after the vote.

Israel convulsed with protests this weekend as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government looked set to push for a vote on key constitutional bills. The proposals, which seek to reduce the power of the judiciary, have proved immensely controversial.

Singapore, along with six co-passenger satellites, from ISRO's Sriharikota spaceport on July 30. The satellites would be launched from the first launchpad at 6.30 am, the space agency said. The DS-SAR satellite is developed under a partnership between Singapore's Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA) (representing the Government of Singapore) and ST Engineering. Once deployed and operational, it will be used to support the satellite imagery requirements of various agencies within the Government of Singapore. ST Engineering will use it for multi-modal and higher responsiveness imagery and geospatial services for their commercial customers. DS-SAR carries a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) payload developed by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI). This allows the DS-SAR to provide for all-weather day and night coverage, and capable of imaging at one metre resolution at full polarimetry. The NewSpace India Limited (NSIL), a central public sector undertaking under the Department of Space, procured the PSLV-C56 to deploy the 360-kg DS-SAR satellite from DSTA & ST Engineering, Singapore, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), the national space agency headquartered here, tweeted on Monday.

AP, the unexpected hospitalization of Netanyahu for a pacemaker implant has introduced another surprising development to an already dramatic series of events that have deeply divided the nation and are expected to significantly impact Israel's future. The parliamentary vote scheduled for Monday is anticipated to pass the initial significant legislation in the contentious judicial overhaul plan. Netanyahu's doctors confirmed on Sunday that the procedure had been successful.

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was recovering in a hospital on Sunday after an emergency heart procedure while opposition to his government's contentious judicial overhaul plan reached a fever pitch and unrest gripped the country. Netanyahu's doctors said on Sunday the heart pacemaker implantation went smoothly and that Netanyahu, 73, felt fine. According to his office, he was expected to be discharged later in the day.

Benjamin Netanyahu will be fitted with a pacemaker overnight between Saturday and Sunday, he said in a video statement released by his office. «A week ago I was fitted with a monitoring device. That device beeped this evening and said I must receive a pacemaker and that I must do this already tonight,» Netanyahu said in the video.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will undergo surgery to implant a pacemaker, his office said in a statement early on Sunday, just days after he was discharged from hospital following a health scare. "Prime Minister Netanyahu will tonight undergo a procedure to implant a pacemaker at Sheba Medical Centre at Tel Hashomer," the statement said.

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The White House announced on July 21, that prominent artificial intelligence (AI) companies, such as OpenAI, Google and Microsoft, have made commitments to create AI technology that is safe, secure and transparent. Additionally, the White House acknowledged other companies like Amazon, Anthropic, Meta and Inflection for also committing to AI safety.

Palestinian in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian officials said Saturday, in what the army described as a «car ramming attempt» near Nablus. Fawzi Mukhalifa, 18, «was killed by the occupation (Israeli) bullets in the town of Sebastia» late on Friday, the Palestinian health ministry said. He was the second Palestinian to be killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank within hours.