TikTok star murdered in Iraq, becoming third slain social media influencer in last year
By France24
29 April 2024 |
2:50 pm
The Israeli media react to the news that the ICC could be preparing an arrest warrant for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Also, pro-Palestinian protests continue on university campuses across the US and France. In other news, an Iraqi TikTok sensation is murdered outside her home, the third such killing in under a year. Finally, a 101-year-old woman is regularly mistaken for a baby due to a software malfunction.
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