Fragile peace in Syria’s Set Zaynab as sectarian challenges persist
Locals in southern Damascus town await safer times as fears rooted in a decade of war still loom over daily life.
Saudi Arabia joins US in strikes on Iran-backed militias in Iraq
US Central Command says proxy groups launched attacks against US bases and Saudi energy infrastructure.
Saudi Arabia joins US in strikes on Iran-backed militias in Iraq
US Central Command says proxy groups launched attacks against US bases and Saudi energy infrastructure.
Fauci invokes fifth amendment and declines to testify in Senate Covid hearing
Adviser to Trump and Biden for pandemic says Republican senator has ‘unhinged obsession’ with him
Anthony Fauci, who served as a key adviser to Donald Trump and Joe Biden during the Covid-19 pandemic, has refused to answer questions at a high-profile congressional hearing, accusing a Republican senator of having an “unhinged obsession” with him.
Fauci, the veteran former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (Niaid), invoked his constitutional right against incrimination when appearing before a Senate committee on Wednesday.
Continue reading...‘Each day feels like the last’: Haitians with TPS on edge as confusion clouds US work status
US employers and Haitian immigrants live in constant uncertainty as status of work permits remains in limbo
For more than a month, Bobby Kuchinsky arrived at his Florida restaurant each morning worried about whether he still had enough staff or if this might be the last shift for some of his Haitian workers, who have spent more than a decade as cooks, busboys and oyster shuckers.
On Tuesday, he suspended six of them after they lost authorization to work in the US.
Continue reading...Burnham does not rule out tax rises for social care reform as he fast-tracks Louise Casey’s review – UK politics live
The prime minister says that current inefficiencies in the system will be tackled first, as he reveals final recommendations will be out by summer 2027
Andy Burnham is speaking now.
In a reference to how he started campaing for social care reform almost two decades ago, he says it is good to see faces in the room “who’ve been on this journey with me for a long, a long time”.
When someone in your family is receiving care, you look at everything through new eyes, don’t you? You notice things that maybe you didn’t notice before because you watch it so closely and so carefully.
And I’ve just been really overwhelmed by their care, the skill in what they do, the professionalism.
Can I just remind everybody that nobody thought we could get everybody in off the streets?
So we can do difficult in this country and we can do it well.
Continue reading...Moscow Court Jails Journalist Daria Shipacheva 12 Years for Treason – The Moscow Times
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- Treason mill. Science journalist Darya Shipacheva sentenced to 12 years in a case whose charges were never made public Mediazona
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Russia accuses Telegram CEO Pavel Durov of aiding terrorism in its latest digital crackdown – AP News
- Russia accuses Telegram CEO Pavel Durov of aiding terrorism in its latest digital crackdown AP News
- Russia Charges Telegram’s Founder Pavel Durov With Facilitating Terrorism The New York Times
- Russia charges Telegram founder Durov with aiding terrorism, he gives Moscow the finger reuters.com
- Russia accuses Telegram founder of aiding terrorism in its latest online crackdown theguardian.com
- FSB Issues Arrest Warrant for Pavel Durov for Aiding Terrorism The Moscow Times
How are AI models able to autonomously hack others?
The next phase of AI has begun. Autonomous agents can make decisions and complete tasks with little human input.
Infantino sets deadline for FIFA offer in Kushner-backed World Cup plan
FIFA's president lobbies for latest, and heavily criticised, proposal for investment in football's governing body.
Russia Charges Telegram Founder Durov With Aiding Terrorism – WSJ
- Russia Charges Telegram Founder Durov With Aiding Terrorism WSJ
- Russia accuses Telegram CEO Pavel Durov of aiding terrorism in its latest digital crackdown AP News
- Russian financial watchdog adds Telegram founder Durov to 'extremists and terrorists' list Reuters
- Russia Charges Telegram’s Founder Pavel Durov With Facilitating Terrorism The New York Times
- 15 Elephants Die in Suspected Cyanide Poisoning The Daily Beast
US bans imports of new Chinese robots over security concerns
The action is part of a wider US effort to reduce reliance on Chinese technology.
Four women accuse Jared Leto of criminal sexual conduct when they were teenagers
BBC documentary reports incidents alleged to have taken place when actor and musician was in 30s and 40s
The actor and singer Jared Leto has been accused in a BBC documentary of criminal sexual conduct by four women, with the alleged offences taking place when the women were teenagers.
The incidents reported by the BBC are alleged to have taken place between 2002 and 2016, when the actor was in his 30s and 40s. He is now 54.
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Continue reading...Iran set to receive up to 400 Chinese shoulder-fired air-defense systems within weeks – The Times of Israel
- Iran set to receive up to 400 Chinese shoulder-fired air-defense systems within weeks The Times of Israel
- EXCLUSIVE: Iran to get Chinese shoulder-launched missile systems in weeks, sources say reuters.com
- China to send rocket launchers to Iran The Telegraph
- China Sending Weapons to Iran Despite Trump’s Faith in Xi: Report newsweek.com
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Assisted dying debate should come after end-of-life care reform, says Burnham
Introducing the legislation would be ‘very challenging’ until care system improved, PM says
Andy Burnham has said the assisted dying debate needs to wait until palliative care and social care are fixed, as he set out his path to resolving one of the most intractable problems in British politics.
The prime minister said he was not opposed to having the debate on assisted dying, but told reporters it would be “very challenging” to introduce the controversial legislation until the care system was in a better place.
Continue reading...BJP politician’s daughter explains why she supports India’s youth protests
Daughter of a BJP politician, Yashaswinee Raje Singh, tells Al Jazeera why she supports India’s student-led protests.
Rogue OpenAI agent that hacked startup tried to attack other firms
ChatGPT developer says activity by autonomous tool was not at severity or scale of what occurred at Hugging Face
OpenAI has revealed that a cyber-attack carried out by a rogue AI agent had more than one victim.
The ChatGPT developer said the agent – an autonomous tool able to carry out sequences of commands without human help – had located and used logins to access four other unnamed “publicly-available services” in addition to the US startup Hugging Face.
Continue reading...Tunisia’s body politic is in crisis
Public-service failures and uncertainty over Kais Saied’s health are deepening the country’s political malaise.
F1 season to end in Europe if Qatar, Abu Dhabi unable to host due to war
F1 sets a mid-September deadline to decide whether final rounds in Middle East can be held due to US-Israel war on Iran.
Boy, seven, dies after Essex coast incident that killed cousin and aunt
Musa Ahmed was being treated in intensive care in London hospital after being pulled from West Mersea sea
A seven-year-old boy has died a week after an incident off the Essex coast in which his teenage cousin and her mother died as they tried to rescue him.
Musa Ahmed was being treated for life-threatening injuries after being pulled from the sea near West Mersea beach on 22 July.
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