TikTok plans to open 300 restaurants in the US, to sell dishes made popular on its platform

For die-hard foodies who love scrolling through cooking videos on social media, TikTok is serving up a new ghost kitchen restaurant concept based on its most viral food hits, in the USA.
#tiktok #food

Boko Haram Sets Houses On Fire In Borno, Many Feared Dead

Many people were feared dead and a dozen others sustained various degrees of injuries when suspected Boko Haram insurgents attacked a community in Askira Uba local government area of Borno state.
#bokoharam #nigeria #insecurity

Chile Elects 35-year-old Gabriel Boric As President

The streets of Santiago erupted in celebration Sunday after leftist millennial Gabriel Boric became Chile’s youngest-ever president-elect with an unexpectedly large victory over his far-right rival in a polarizing race.
#chile #santiago #gabrielboric

The wildly popular holiday island of Bali had just 45 international tourists in 2021

The popular holiday island of Bali received a record low number of international tourists in 2021, Indonesian authorities have said. Just 45 people visited Bali between January and October 2021, according to data published by CNN, and confirmed by the Central Statistics Bureau of Bali.
#bali #tourist

Cyprus asylum seekers head for new lives in Italy thanks to pope

Six asylum seekers Pope Francis is helping relocate from Cyprus expressed gratitude and hope as they left to start their new lives in Italy on Thursday barely a week before Christmas.
#cyprus #pope #christmas

'Panic' in Britain as Omicron crisis bites ahead of Christmas

Soaring Omicron cases left Britons scrambling Thursday to make alternative Christmas plans, faced with cancellations, long queues for vaccines and France shutting the border to UK visitors.
#britain #omicronvariant

Biden warns of 'winter of death' for unvaccinated as Omicron spreads

US President Joe Biden warned Thursday of a "winter of severe illness and death" for those unvaccinated against Covid-19, as the G7 called the Omicron variant the biggest threat to global public health.
#biden #us #omicronvariant

A UK school reportedly apologised after pictures of its 'grim' Christmas lunch went viral

Parents said they were left "upset" and "disgusted" by a Christmas meal served at Steyning Grammar School and Sixth Form College in West Sussex, United Kingdom on Tuesday. In a local Facebook group, parents described the meal which consisted of a bread roll, slice of turkey, pig in a blanket, mince pie, and a ball of stuffing as "disgusting"
#uk #lunch #christmas #steyninggrammarschool

27 feared dead after fire sweeps through building in Japan's Osaka

Twenty-seven people were feared dead after a blaze swept through a commercial building housing a mental health clinic in the Japanese city of Osaka on Friday, fire officials said.
#japan #fire #osaka

Austria approves legalising assisted dying

Austria's parliament on Thursday approved legalising assisted suicide from January in response to a court ruling that the current ban violated fundamental rights. A year ago, the constitutional court ordered the government to lift the existing ban on assisted dying, which is punishable by up to five years in prison.
#austria #dying