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Gaza internet blackout passes one-week mark: monitor

The EU is looking at providing funding and expertise to help disarm Hamas under US President Donald Trump’s peace plan for Gaza, a document seen by AFP Friday said. The 27-nation bloc is discussing what role it can play after Europe was left...

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OpenAI to allow erotica

OpenAI has suspended its Sora 2 artificial intelligence tool from creating videos of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. after his estate complained about disrespectful depictions. The slain civil rights leader’s estate and OpenAI...

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China's Xi tells Trump he hopes for 'good start' to ties in new term: state media

Donald Trump will hold talks with China’s Xi Jinping during the upcoming APEC summit in South Korea, the US president said in a Fox interview excerpt released Friday. “We’re going to meet in a couple of weeks. We’re going to...

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Asian markets drop as US jobs data stoke recession fears

Wall Street stocks were little changed early Friday following the prior day’s losses as markets monitored the latest on US regional banks and trade relations between Beijing and Washington. Weakness in regional banks had weighed on US stocks...

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argentina 10,000 pesos

The Argentine peso depreciated against the dollar Friday despite fresh US support for the currency that has proven volatile ahead of legislative elections later this month. With the government of President Javier Milei under pressure, the peso...

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Oil companies greet Trump return, muted on tariffs

An international vote to formally approve cutting maritime emissions was delayed by a year Friday, in a victory for the United States which opposes the carbon-cutting plan. The London-based International Maritime Organization (IMO), a United Nations...

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