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RUSSIA

Military plane crash kills 29 in Crimea

A Russian military plane crash in Crimea has killed six crew members and 23 passengers, Russian news agencies reported on Wednesday, citing the Defense Ministry. The An-26 military transport plane was carrying out a scheduled flight over the Crimean Peninsula, the reports said. The military lost contact with the plane around 6 pm on Tuesday. The Soviet-designed military transport turboprop aircraft crashed into a cliff, sources at the scene told state news agencies TASS and RIA Novosti.

UNITED STATES

NYC reverses TikTok ban on govt devices

New York City has lifted its ban on TikTok for government-owned devices, allowing agencies to resume posting on the platform under new security protocols, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced on Tuesday via the app itself. The original prohibition, established in 2023 by former mayor Eric Adams, aligned with the federal government and many US states that restricted the app on government-owned devices due to concerns about its parent company, ByteDance. TikTok has previously dismissed these concerns as unfounded.

Agencies - Xinhua