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Google launched a verification platform dubbed 'CrossCheck' at the French Development Agency's headquarters in Paris on Tuesday, aimed at combatting fake news. The partnership between First Draft and the Google News Lab will work in collaboration with 17 newsrooms, including Agence France-Presse (AFP), BuzzFeed News, France Televisions and Le Monde, among others. The CrossCheck launch comes as France prepares to hold presidential elections this summer.
Leaders of "INDIA" opposition alliance and thousands of supporters rally at New Delhi's Ramlila Maidan to protest the arrest of Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, one of the key leaders of the opposition bloc. Kejriwal has been incarcerated for over a week in connection with a long-running corruption probe. India's main financial investigation agency, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has also launched probes into at least four other state chief ministers or their family members, and all the investigations involve political opponents of Modi's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). IMAGES
Hundreds of Israeli protesters gather around a fire set outside the Defence Ministry in Tel Aviv as they rally to demand early elections and a deal to release hostages held in Gaza since Hamas's October 7 attacks. IMAGES
Images of El Salvador's Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) employees loading boxes containing electoral material in San Marcos, for the presidential and legislative elections on February 4, to be distributed across the different municipalities. President Nayib Bukele is all but guaranteed a resounding victory, with his no-holds-barred war on gangs having earned him approval ratings hovering around 90 percent. IMAGES
Wearing white laboratory coat and hair net, French President Emmanuel Macron tours the production site in Chartres, southwest of Paris, of Novo Nordisk . In a deal to be sealed officially with Macron today, Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk will invest 2.1 billion euros ($2.3 billion) in this existing facility to expand capacity for a blockbuster anti-obesity drug. Novo Nordisk is the European Union's most valuable company with market capitalisation of around $460 billion, mostly thanks to growing use of its anti-diabetes drugs as weight-loss derivatives. IMAGES