AMD’s shares surge on deal to supply AI chips to OpenAI
The deal also gives the ChatGPT creator the option to buy upto 10 percent of AMD.
Indians hard hit as US student visas decline by a fifth from last year
Indian nationals see decrease of 45 percent compared to same period last year as US clamps down on foreign students.
White House reverses Trump claim firings have begun amid gov’t shutdown
US lawmakers remain at impasse as shutdown stretches into sixth day; White House again threatens layoffs.
People claim London crime is rising because it suits them, Met commander says
Nigel Farage and right-wing commentators seek to portray capital as ‘lawless’ despite evidence to the contrary
Claims that London is becoming more dangerous despite the crime figures indicating otherwise are being made because it suits some people, a senior police commander has said.
The Reform UK leader, Nigel Farage, and right-wing commentators have increasingly sought to portray the capital as a “lawless” city from which high net-worth individuals are fleeing.
Continue reading...Study finds US asthma inhalers produce same emissions as 500,000 cars
Researchers say inhalers in the US alone generate annual emissions equivalent to 530,000 cars.
Trump announces 25 percent tariffs on medium and heavy imported trucks
It is not clear if countries under trade agreements with the US would also be subjected to this new tariff.
The difficult lives of Gaza’s babies born on October 7
Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum shares the story of two toddlers born in Gaza on October 7, 2023, right before the war.
New US Supreme Court term will reshape Trump’s powers
Legal challenges have slowed Trump's attempts to expand presidential power. Now the highest US court is going to weigh in.
Israel deports Greta Thunberg and other Gaza flotilla activists
Among the 161 arriving in Athens, MEP Rima Hassan reports that she was 'beaten' by Israeli police officers.
Tories set a low bar after misspelling Britain on conference chocolate
Misprinted wrappers pulled from Manchester goodie bags after derision on social media
A chocolate bar given out by the Conservatives at their annual party conference misspelled the name of the country they are hoping to govern.
The confectionery, in a blue wrapper, featured a slogan from the Tory party leader with an incorrect spelling of Britain.
Continue reading...Death toll in Indonesian school collapse rises to at least 60
Indonesia's national search-and-rescue agency said more bodies discovered in the rubble, a week after school collapse.
Syria’s first elections since Assad’s fall conclude
Syria has concluded its first elections since the fall of Bashar al-Assad.
A Defining Choice for Israel – Foreign Affairs
- A Defining Choice for Israel Foreign Affairs
- Global outrage has grown after two years of bombardment in Gaza. In Israel, it is a different story CNN
- The Take: Two years after October 7 – Israel’s reckoning Al Jazeera
- Netanyahu is learning limits of what can be achieved by military power alone Sky News
- Israel at War With Itself The New York Times
US Supreme Court rejects Ghislaine Maxwell appeal in Epstein case
The British socialite is serving a 20-year prison sentence on sex-trafficking charges related to former boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein.
Israel says blind Hezbollah fighter, wife killed in Lebanon car strike
CCTV footage shows the moment an Israeli drone struck a car in southern Lebanon, killing a husband and wife.
ICC finds former Sudan militia leader guilty of war crimes in Darfur – NPR
- ICC finds former Sudan militia leader guilty of war crimes in Darfur NPR
- Ali Kushayb: Sudan militia leader convicted of war crimes in Darfur BBC
- Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman declared guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Darfur, Sudan | International Criminal Court
- ICC convicts first Darfur militia leader for war crimes Reuters
- ICC convicts militia leader of atrocities in Darfur killings more than 20 years ago PBS
Syria shares results of parliamentary election amid inclusivity concerns
Election marks landmark moment in country’s post-war transition, but vote goes largely to Sunni male representatives.
Man on trial in Albania kills judge, injures two others in shooting
Astrit Kalaja, an appeals court judge, died on his way to hospital after the courtroom attack on Monday.
Gaza flotilla activists arrive in Greece after Israeli prison release
Greta Thunberg spoke publicly for the first time since being released from an Israeli prison.
Bronze age gold jewellery stolen in raid on St Fagans museum in Cardiff
South Wales police issue public appeal for information after burglary at one of Wales’s most beloved museums
Raiders have broken into one of Wales’s most beloved museums and stolen gold jewellery from the bronze age.
Staff at St Fagans National Museum of History in Cardiff said its “Wales is …” gallery was specifically targeted in the burglary, which was discovered in the early hours of Monday.
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