The World in Brief from The Economist

Meta, a social-media giant, will abandon its fact-checking programme in favour of crowdsourced checks.

Meta, a social-media giant, will abandon its fact-checking program in favor of crowdsourced checks.

A powerful earthquake struck near Shigatse, one of Tibet’s holiest cities and its second largest. Also, a former governor of both the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, said he was considering entering the race to replace Justin Trudeau

Justin Trudeau said he would resign as Canada’s prime minister, and announced a contest to replace him as leader of the Liberal Party.

Justin Trudeau said he would resign as Canada’s prime minister, and announced a contest to replace him as leader of the Liberal Party.

South Korea’s anti-corruption agency asked police to arrest President Yoon Suk Yeol after its own attempt to do so on Friday was thwarted by presidential guards. Also, Canada’s prime minister Justin Trudeau is likely to resign this week

Austria’s far-right Freedom Party inched closer to power.

Russia vowed retaliation after claiming to have shot down eight American-supplied ATACMS missiles fired by Ukraine at the border region of Belgorod.