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Mark Zuckerberg, chairman and CEO of Facebook has announced the rebranding of his platform under a new name "meta" to help build ta next chapter he announced in a keynote.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announces their new name, Meta, during a virtual event. Source: AP

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Weekly most prominent world news highlights from SBS Sinhala Radio with the senior journalist and a foreign news analyst from AFP News, Mr. Amal Jayasinghe

This week's world news highlights

  • Promises made by various countries including Australia and Sri Lanka at the COP 26 Climate Summit
  • Conspiracies to seize state power in Ethiopia
  • Iran's response to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
  • Facebook decides to remove Facial recognition software immediately.

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