- Putin, 73, Says Living to 150 Won’t Be Enough After Meeting ‘Beautiful’ Robot The Daily Beast
- Putin calls dancing Russian robot 'very beautiful' in awkward AI conference moment Fox News
- Kremlin says Vladimir Putin does not use AI himself, but that officials who work for him do Reuters
- Watch: Robot Dances For Putin Days After Another Russian Robot Stumbled NDTV
- Watch this Russian humanoid robot fall flat on its face seconds into its debut to the 'Rocky' theme Business Insider
Will a global oil glut push prices lower in 2026?
The International Energy Agency warns of an oil surplus in 2026, but OPEC+ predicts a balanced market.
More than 250 arrested in Charlotte as US immigration crackdown escalates
Charlotte's Democratic leaders say border agents are "stoking fear" in the city.
Video shows the moment a bridge is swept away by floodwaters in Vietnam
A surge of flooding is overwhelming parts of south-central Vietnam, with a bridge connecting two villages falling apart.
Surf’s down! Munich, until now an inland surfing hotspot, has lost its biggest wave – NPR
Palestinians Forced to Pay for Own Removal from Gaza
South Africa rejects more flights of Palestinians as mystery arrivals raise questions over who sent them and why.
Updated Gaza data shows famine claims likely inflated by UN-backed monitor – The Times of Israel
- Updated Gaza data shows famine claims likely inflated by UN-backed monitor The Times of Israel
- As the Occupying Power, Israel Must Let Gaza Feed Itself Haaretz
- The mothers, children suffering Israel’s engineered starvation in Gaza Al Jazeera
- If Gaza’s famine was real, how come it went away so fast? Fox News
- Tens of thousands in Gaza still at ‘significant risk’ of starvation, says McEntee The Irish Times
Europe calls for role in Ukraine talks amid reported US-Russian peace deal
Foreign ministers express misgivings about draft US-Russian peace plan favourable to Putin
Europeans must be involved in any attempt to broker peace between Ukraine and Russia, the continent’s top diplomats said after reports of a US-Russia plan favourable to Kremlin interests emerged.
The EU’s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, welcomed any “meaningful efforts” to end the war, but said Ukrainian and European input was needed for any plan to work.
Continue reading...Nigeria jails separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu for life on ‘terrorism’ charges
Prosecutors had sought the death penalty against Kanu, but Judge James Omotosho said he chose to show mercy.
BBC visits US-led Gaza ceasefire monitoring centre in Israel
Soldiers from more than 20 countries, diplomats and aid workers are based at the Civil-Military Coordination Centre (CMCC).
Police raid Kashmir Times media office in Jammu: Reports
Kashmir Times says raid in Indian-administered Kashmir marks 'yet another attempt to silence' its reporting.
The Netherlands suspends takeover of Nexperia, easing tensions with China
Dutch government's decision to relinquish control of chipmaker comes after major disruption to automotive supply chains.
Spain’s attorney general guilty of leak in tax fraud case against partner of political rival – AP News
- Spain’s attorney general guilty of leak in tax fraud case against partner of political rival AP News
- Spain's attorney general convicted in controversial leak case BBC
- Spain's attorney general guilty of leak in tax fraud case against partner of political rival ABC News
- Spain's Supreme Court finds chief prosecutor guilty in leak case Reuters
- Blow to Spanish PM as attorney general found guilty in leak case The Guardian
IAEA passes resolution demanding nuclear access from Iran; Tehran rejects
'The resolution will have its own consequences', Iran's ambassador to the UN nuclear watchdog says.
Ex-Trump Official Exposes GOP’s True View Of Trump And… Yikes – HuffPost
Statistically, there’s a reliable way to predict a domestic violence homicide like Hannah Clarke’s
Queensland researchers studying intimate-partner killings found one thing common to more than half the cases
Police made potentially critical mistakes in Hannah Clarke murders, new evidence reveals
Read more from Guardian Australia’s two-year investigation here
When researchers in Queensland catalogued data from seven years of intimate-partner killings, they found one thing common to more than half of those cases – a victim’s own sense of fear about their impending death.
Statistically, the most reliable way to predict a domestic violence homicide is to believe the victim.
Continue reading...‘Gobsmacking’ solar farm that could power AI datacentres ‘possibly unparalleled’ in Australia or world
SunCable says massive energy project proposed in NT could position Australia as global leader but critics are concerned about scale
Energy company SunCable says a massive solar farm it has proposed building in the Northern Territory could power an AI datacentre precinct in the region to position Australia as a global leader in “green industrial development”.
The development would be Australia’s largest solar farm and would generate up to 20GW of electricity, or 10 times the output of a large coal-fired station. It would add to the company’s plans to build a 12,000ha solar farm at Powell Creek Station, south of Elliott, as part of its proposed Australia-Asia Power Link project.
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Continue reading...Hurricane Melissa winds hit record-breaking 252 mph, data confirms – CBS News
- Hurricane Melissa winds hit record-breaking 252 mph, data confirms CBS News
- Hurricane Melissa's 252 mph wind gust sets historic record USA Today
- Record-breaking 252 mph wind reading verified from historic Hurricane Melissa FOX Weather
- It’s official: Hurricane Melissa produced highest measured wind gust for tropical system WKMG
- Record-breaking winds confirmed for Hurricane Melissa University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
More than 30 killed as Israel breaks Gaza ceasefire again
Israeli air strikes across Gaza marked the deadliest breach of the ceasefire, killing at least 30 Palestinians.
Spanish PM calls for nation to heed past lessons on anniversary of Franco’s death
Pedro Sánchez says his country must defend the democratic freedom ‘wrenched from us for so many years’
Spain has marked the 50th anniversary of Francisco Franco’s death with an absence of official events but a call from the prime minister to heed the lessons of the dictatorship and defend the democratic freedom “wrenched from us for so many years”.
Franco, whose military coup against the elected republican government in 1936 triggered a civil war and brought about four decades of dictatorship, died in Madrid on 20 November 1975.
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