What’s UpScrolled, the app gaining popularity after TikTok’s US takeover?
Disgruntled TikTok users are flocking to the platform which is promising a ‘transparent tech’ experience.

Disgruntled TikTok users are flocking to the platform which is promising a ‘transparent tech’ experience.







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White House cites groups’ alleged support for Hamas, accusing them of waging campaign against US interests and allies.
The Indonesian Defence Ministry says troops are likely to focus on health and reconstruction if sent to the enclave.
Foreign ministers from several Arab, Islamic states have met to discuss Gaza ceasefire and an international peace force.

Omar M. Yaghi, a chemist born to Palestinian refugee parents in Jordan, has been awarded a Nobel Prize.

Jordan’s King Abdullah II told the UN General Assembly that Israel is “burying the very idea of a Palestinian state.”
Closure of King Hussein (Allenby) Bridge is the latest in long line of collective punishments imposed by Israeli forces.
Israel says perpetrator ‘neutralised’ after entering in humanitarian aid truck from Jordan.
The visit is Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani’s first since Israel’s strike on Doha last week.
Arab, Muslim leaders gather in Qatar to condemn Israeli attack in Doha and warn Gaza war is a campaign of extermination.
Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Ministry says it ‘condemns and denounces in the strongest terms the brutal Israeli aggression’.