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UK employers cut back on hiring again last month in another sign of a sharply weakening jobs market.

Data from a Recruitment and Employment Confederation survey shows a jump in job seekers in December, largely driven by redundancies.

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Activists say that more than 500 people have died so far in the latest waves of protests in Iran.

With three weeks of demonstrations, the regime in Tehran is confronting the most serious challenge to its authority in years.

The US-based human rights activist's news agency says that it's tracking protests in 186 cities across Iran, with an estimated 10,000 people already imprisoned.

President Trump says that he is closely monitoring the protests and considering potential military options.

President Trump added that the regime's leaders had reached out for negotiations on Saturday.

Meanwhile, Iran's parliamentary speaker, Mohammad Bagher Khalibaf, has this warning for the US if it chooses to strike the country.

the words of Iran's parliamentary speaker there, spoken by a translator.

Communications in Iran remain largely cut off, which has made it difficult to track the full scope of the protest movement.

And President Trump says that he now plans to speak to Elon Musk about activating his Starlink service to help restore internet access in Iran.

Is there any deal they can offer you?

Indonesia and Malaysia have become the first countries to restrict access to Elon Musk's Grok AI over its generation of sexual content.

In a statement issued on Saturday, Indonesia's Communications and Digital Affairs Ministry said Grok is being banned temporarily to protect the population from, quote, fake pornographic content.

Meanwhile, Malaysia's internet regulator said it's limiting access to Grok until effective safeguards are implemented.

The move comes as Musk's XAI, which owns Grog, decided on Friday to restrict the image generation feature to paid subscribers on the X social media platform after the AI tool was used to generate undressed images of women and children.