Australia said Tuesday it would ban TikTok on government devices, joining a growing list of Western nations cracking down on the Chinese-owned app due to national security fears. Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus said the decision followed advice from the country’s intelligence agencies and would begin “as soon as practicable”. Australia is the last member of the secretive Five Eyes security alliance …

The White House on Tuesday welcomed a bill that would allow the United States to ban Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok, United States National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan said in a statement. The bill was backed by Mark Warner, a senior US senator from the Democratic Party, and John Thune, a South Dakota Republican, in a rare act of political entente …