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America's House of Representatives approved a bill that would force TikTok's Chinese

owner,

bite dance, to sell the app to an owner of another nationality.

Otherwise, it will face a ban in America,

TikTok's largest market.

Regulators worry that China is using the app to gather Americans

personal data. Moreover, because Tic-Tock is increasingly a source of news, they fear that it could

be used as a tool of propaganda. source of

news. They fear that it could be used as a tool of propaganda. The bipartisan measure passed

352 to 65, although its fate in the Senate is uncertain.

Vladimir Putin warned the West that Russia was ready for a nuclear war, quote, from a military technical point of view,

and warned America against deploying troops to Ukraine.

He said that a recent spate of Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian oil facilities was designed

to disrupt Russia's presidential election.

That three-day vote, which begins on Friday,

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