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US President Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is planning to visit Israel next week for talks on the situation in Gaza, Axios reported on Thursday.
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Israeli defence minister inaugurates new illegal settlement in Jenin Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has said settler attacks and the scenes in Qusra in the occupied West Bank are “costing Israel” and “its friends," Al Jazeera reported. The Israeli attacks,...
UAE condemns Iranian attack on two vessels in Hormuz strait The United Arab Emirates on Friday condemned an Iranian attack it said targeted two vessels linked to state-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) as they passed through the Strait...
Human Rights Watch says UN must keep peacekeepers in Lebanon Human Rights Watch has called on the United Nations to keep an international force in Lebanon after its peacekeepers' mandate ends this year. The peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon, Unifil,...
US could not verify Israeli warnings of Iran plots against Trump, sources say The US has received several warnings from Israel over the past year that Iran intended to assassinate President Donald Trump, including before a secret Air Force One...
The US military has lost at least 45 MQ-9 Reaper drones, or roughly 25% of its fleet, during its war with Iran, The Washington Post reported on Thursday, citing three officials, Anadolu reports. The losses involve an aircraft used for...
Yemen’s Houthi group claimed Thursday that it had targeted a Saudi Aramco refinery in the southwestern Saudi city of Jazan with two drones, Anadolu reports. A military source, quoted by the Houthi-run Saba news agency, said the group’s forces targeted...
The US is planning to send the USS George Washington aircraft carrier to the Middle East to replace the USS Abraham Lincoln in a previously scheduled rotation, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The Lincoln has been deployed for more...
Yemen’s Houthi group has buried 57 fighters, including 31 officers and three brigadier generals, killed over the past 10 days in fighting on various fronts, state-run Saba TV reported Thursday, Anadolu reports. The broadcaster did not specify where or under...
Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters on Thursday dismissed US claims of full control over the Strait of Hormuz as “baseless lies,” saying the strategic waterway remains under Tehran’s control, Anadolu reports. “The false US claims regarding the normal passage of...
Tehran, IRNA - Iran’s central bank has put forward a potentially consequential proposal at the BRICS financial meetings in India: the creation of a dedicated financial corridor linking and integrating the payment networks of BRICS members, alongside an independent infrastructure...
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) — Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi has reaffirmed Sept. 30 as the end date for the US-led coalition’s military mission in Iraq, putting more pressure on Baghdad to […] The post Iraq sets September 30 for US-led coalition...
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) — A high-level Iraqi security delegation will travel to Riyadh on Thursday, August 13, 2026, to conduct talks regarding recent cross-border drone strikes targeting petroleum infrastructure in Saudi […] The post Senior Iraqi security delegation heads to Saudi...
Eurovision Song Contest organisers have announced changes to the rules, saying winning broadcasters are to be prevented from hosting if involved in armed conflict or a "sensitive geopolitical situation" that could affect the safety of the event.
North Korea has declared it must possess the capability to counter any potential enemy moves with retaliatory strikes that would make their "survival and recovery impossible", according to reports.
Some sailors have reportedly tried throwing themselves into the sea, basic supplies can run short and sanitation is going awry: life on America's giant Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier is increasingly difficult as the Iran war drags on. The ship --...
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Aug 13 (Reuters) - Yemen faces its most serious threat of a return to large-scale war since a U.N.-brokered truce in 2022, U.N. envoy Hans Grundberg warned on Thursday, as the world body said more than half the country's population...
Putin threatened to seize European vessels from the Russian Black Sea to the Pacific after Ukraine's drone attack crippled Novorossiysk grain terminals.
Firefighters attempt to tackle a huge blaze at a refinery in Zawiya after a drone strike near a main oil tank and pipeline network. It was the third such attack in two days, according to Libya's National Oil Corporation, but...
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The distance between life and death is razor thin at one medical clinic in Rwampara, the heart of the epidemic ravaging the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi of Japan has been a public critic of Mr. Putin, who has denounced her country’s sanctions against Russia over the Ukraine war.
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New satellite assessments show the destruction of buildings in Gaza has climbed by nearly 10 per cent since October’s faltering ceasefire between Hamas and Israeli forces aim to end the two-year war, which reduced cities to rubble and displaced more...
South Korean shipping companies SK Shipping Co. and H-Line Shipping Co. — both owned by private equity firm Hahn & Co. — will swap tankers and contracts to create one of the world’s largest operators of liquefied natural gas carriers.
The U.S. is sending a new aircraft carrier to the Middle East amid reports of poor conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, which has been long deployed to the theater in support of the war against Iran. The USS George...
Emergency services said they were working at the scene of a derailment near Lewes, in East Sussex, on Thursday. Eighteen other people were less badly hurt.
Romania has shut down its only nuclear plant in a rare move prompted by the lack of cooling water from the Danube River. Hungary, meanwhile, is racing to dam the Danube, trying to keep its Paks plant online.
The military’s failure to keep extremists away from two Palestinian families trapped in their West Bank homes made clear the chaos gripping the Israeli-occupied territory.
Most trade in ivory from elephants and other endangered animals is banned by international agreement under CITES, a treaty to which almost all UN member countries are parties.
Colombia earthquake survivors are facing major loss and a yearslong road to recovery filled with grief and uncertainty. Here's what responders say will happen next.
In a major U-turn, the Bar Council of India has withdrawn its order halting the enrolment of NALSAR Hyderabad’s 2026 batch.The earlier directive came amid a controversy over a campaign opposing CJI Surya Kant as the chief guest at the...
The Netherlands is investigating an explosion at the port of Rotterdam that killed one person and injured several others on Thursday, 13 August. The blast happened at about 11:30 a.m. at an oil facility in the Europoort industrial section of...
Man dies in Bas-Uele after travelling from Haut-Uele, as head of WHO says outbreak on track to be deadliest ever The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has spread to a sixth province, officials have said, a...
In a new filing in its long-running legal dispute with Epic Games, Apple has proposed a structure that would allow it to collect fees on digital purchases made via external links that don't use the company's in-app purchase system. Epic...
The surveillance company announced it's making a tool called "Audit Assistance" mandatory for all customers, claiming it's already helped catch abuse. But the company has yet to explain how the tool works in detail, raising questions about its effectiveness.
Microsoft Copilot will no longer show its emotive yellow blob, Mico, when you use the chatbot's voice mode. In a support page, Microsoft says it's going to move Mico to its Learn Live platform, where the avatar will have "more...
Databricks has closed a $5bn round at a $190bn valuation, led by Coatue, with revenue run-rate past $7bn and growth above 80% year on year. That is a 42% valuation increase in six months, and it comes after chief executive...
The Trump administration is launching a new program that will allow private firms to perform cyberattacks against foreign criminals, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. The private firms would operate "under the control and oversight" of the federal government, giving them...
Google is rolling out Gemini 3.7 Flash , a new version of its workhorse AI model that puts coding, agentic workflows and knowledge work at the center of the upgrade — while temporarily cutting API prices in half. The release...
The fact that Mark Walter found the cash he needs in a professional sports team, and not in his pile of loans and financial instruments, points to a bigger change unfolding in the financial frenzy around sports these days.
DeepSeek is expanding beyond the model layer and deeper into the software developers use to put AI agents to work. The Chinese AI lab on Thursday launched the official version of DeepSeek-V4-Pro , an updated flagship model focused heavily on...
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Microsoft's latest 64-bit IDE adds AI-assisted coding, faster performance, and advanced collaboration tools. The post Visual Studio 2026 Brings AI Deeper Into Development and It’s 94% Off Right Now appeared first on TechRepublic .
Built as a post-training variation on Z.ai's open source model GLM-5.2, Writer says the new system should provide deployment-ready capabilities at a much lower price.
On 11 July, Hugging Face was subjected to an intense cyberattack from a then-unknown actor. The speed and coordination of the attack on the company that hosts and supports popular AI developer resources led Hugging Face’s security team to conclude...
When we set out to talk to kids about artificial intelligence, we thought we knew what we’d hear. We expected some to tell us they were using it to cheat a little, the way Millennials and Gen Xers opened up...
Deepseek has moved its flagship V4-Pro out of the testing phase and released its agent software, Harness v0.1, under the MIT license. API prices are going up at the same time, with cache hits jumping to six times their current...
Introducing Muse Glimmer Meta are back in the open weights game! Muse Glimmer is a brand new 30B model under a clean Apache 2.0 license (a step up from the janky Llama licenses of old). They claim to have optimized...
Physics AI can now explore thousands of design variations in the time it would take a traditional simulation to chew through a handful of them. Precisely up to 1,000 times faster, according to Siemens. What it cannot do is sign...
MIT researchers and collaborators found that AI explainability tools in the health sector can produce sharply different results depending on who uses them. When applied to skin disease diagnosis, non-experts improved their accuracy with AI assistance, although the improvement largely...