China’s third aircraft carrier has entered service following a ceremony marking its handover to the navy attended by President Xi Jinping, state news agency Xinhua reported Friday. The commissioning of the Fujian marks a key milestone in...
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The chief financial officer of OpenAI has retracted her idea that the US government provide loan guarantees for the ChatGPT-maker’s massive infrastructure expansion, which will cost more than $1 trillion. CFO Sarah Friar on Monday explained...
Spain will confine poultry indoors in several regions starting Monday in response to escalating cases of avian influenza across Europe, the agriculture ministry said Wednesday. “Over the past weeks, we have observed an increase in the number...
Police seized weapons and arrested a British man suspected of links to alleged Hamas members in Germany who are accused of plotting attacks on Jewish targets, authorities said Thursday. Austria’s state intelligence agency DSN seized the arms...
The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on three Hezbollah members involved in financial transactions for the Lebanese militant group, as Israel launched new strikes. The sanctions were announced ahead of a visit to Lebanon by John Hurley...
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian blamed his own government for rising consumer prices Thursday, boosting pressure on the managers of the sanctions-hit economy. The annual inflation rate stood at nearly 49 percent in September, according to...
“Vibe coding,” a word that essentially means using artificial intelligence (AI) to tell a machine what you want instead of coding it yourself, was on Thursday named the Collins Word of the Year 2025. Coined by OpenAI co-founder Andrej...
Poland’s government said Thursday that the country, a neighbour to Ukraine and Russia, plans to train up to 500,000 volunteers by the end of next year to strengthen its defensive capabilities. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February...
A real estate arm of Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund said Thursday it will invest $29.7 billion in a tourism and residential development project on Egypt’s northern coast — as the country seeks investments to boost a faltering...
The Israeli military said it had launched a series of strikes on Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon in Thursday, shortly after issuing evacuation warnings to residents in parts of the area. “The IDF has begun a series of strikes on...
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of COP30 host Brazil said Thursday that “extremist forces” were condemning future generations to life on a planet forever altered by global warming. Opening a pre-COP leaders’ summit in the...
A US judge dropped criminal charges against Boeing on Thursday over deadly crashes of its 737 MAX 8 aircraft as part of an agreement between the company and prosecutors. The Texas judge’s decision stems from an agreement between the Department...
A Moscow-backed court in Ukraine’s occupied Donetsk region on Thursday jailed two Colombians for 13 years each for fighting for Kyiv. They are the latest foreign fighters to get lengthy jail terms as “mercenaries” by Russian...
Nancy Pelosi, a towering figure in US politics and the first woman to serve as speaker of the House of Representatives, announced on Thursday that she will step down at the next election. Admired as a master strategist with a no-nonsense leadership...
The EU on Thursday announced a formal antitrust probe against stock exchange operators Nasdaq and Deutsche Boerse over “possible collusion” involving financial derivatives. The European Commission said it suspected US-headquartered...