#BREAKING G7 commits to 'at least 15% global minimum corporate tax'
#BREAKING British finance minister hails G7 'historic agreement' on global tax.
Germany says G7 decision on global corporate tax 'good news for justice and fiscal solidarity'
#BREAKING France says G7 corporate tax decision 'historic step', will fight for 'highest possible' rate
#BREAKING Facebook 'welcomes' G7 move on corporate tax: spokesman
#UPDATE Finance ministers from wealthy G7 nations on Saturday pledged to commit to a global minimum corporate tax of at least 15 percent, rallying behind a US-backed plan u.afp.com/U8od
Facebook even got behind the agreement over global corporate tax, despite the social media giant facing the prospect of having to pay more tax -- while non-governmental organizations said it did not go far enough u.afp.com/U8JM
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#BREAKING 14 killed in Burkina Faso village attack: security sources
#UPDATE The unidentified attackers killed 13 people "among the civilian population" in the village of Tadaryat late on Friday, and a member of the army auxiliary who had come to help them, a security source told AFP. A local source confirmed the toll u.afp.com/U84r
#BREAKING About 100 killed in northern Burkina Faso in deadliest attack since 2015: security source
#BREAKING Facebook bans former US president Donald Trump for 2 years
#BREAKING Facebook to hold politicians accountable for disinformation
Former president Trump said his two-year ban by Facebook was an "insult" to voters, as he renewed his unsupported claims about the 2020 presidential election
#BREAKING Hong Kong's Victoria Park empty for first time in 32 years on Tiananmen anniversary
#UPDATE A Hong Kong park that traditionally hosts huge vigils on the anniversary of China's deadly Tiananmen Square crackdown lay empty for the first time late Friday as police blocked access
#UPDATE Hong Kong police threw cordons around Victoria Park, keeping crowds out and leaving the venue free of candle-carrying mourners for the first time in 32 years u.afp.com/U7C6
#BREAKING EU opens antitrust probe into Facebook over advertisers' data
#UPDATE The European Commission announced Friday an antitrust probe into Facebook's use of data gathered from advertisers to see whether it gives it an unfair advantage in the online classifieds market
#BREAKING UK competition authority opens probe into Facebook use of ad data
#BREAKING German top bishop resigns over church's 'failure' in abuse scandal
#UPDATE One of Germany's leading Catholic bishops, Cardinal Reinhard Marx, said Friday he had offered Pope Francis his resignation over the church's "institutional and systemic failure" in dealing with child sex abuse scandals
Cardinal Reinhard Marx wrote to Pope Francis on May 21 and his resignation statement was published by his archdiocese in Munich