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BREAKINGWashington – The United States on Friday lifted an hours-long ground stop at the nation’s airports, with top officials explaining that the disruption was due to old equipment and not a cyberattack or sweeping Microsoft outage. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy told a late-night briefing at the…
BREAKINGTokyo – AI bots going rogue and humans using the technology for harm will likely be on the agenda when Donald Trump and Xi Jinping meet next week, with the Nvidia scandal hanging over the talks on AI safety. The US and Chinese president are set to discuss a tech crisis hotline at the Asia-Pacific…
BREAKINGCiudad Ojeda – The company at the heart of a multi-billion-dollar oil deal between Washington and Caracas is keen to show off renovations at Venezuela’s Lake Maracaibo, one of the world’s richest reserves. The interim government authorized North American Blue Energy Partners (NABEP) to operate 17…
BREAKINGWashington – Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping will hold the first ever three-way meeting between the leaders of the United States, Russia and China at a summit in Shenzhen next week, the White House said Friday. Trump wants to talk about reducing nuclear arsenals at the trilateral talks…
BREAKINGWashington – US Secretary of State Marco Rubio took aim Friday at what he deemed the “weaponization of international law,” calling it a tool of the elite, and issued a stark warning to the International Criminal Court. Rubio cautioned the ICC against “quoting laws to men with swords,” as he accused…
BREAKINGNew York – Wall Street stocks mostly fell Friday as tech shares remained under pressure following the shock downfall of Nvidia’s chief Jensen Huang, while the dollar rose following additional data that showed US inflation is persisting. Huang, perhaps the tech industry’s most recognized booster of…
BREAKINGWashington – US forces responded to possible unauthorized drone activity over a military base in Britain Friday, spokespeople from the two countries said, in the latest security incident at a facility hosting American warplanes. “No personnel, aircraft or infrastructure were affected” at the RAF…
BREAKINGNew York – US aviation regulators issued an extremely rare ground stop of all flights across the country Friday after a major communications outage which the Department of Homeland Security said did not appear to be the result of any “nefarious attack.” The halt triggered immediate chaos and…
BREAKINGNew York – Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei pitched investors on safety and a strict hiring culture on Friday, days before the AI company’s stock market debut. “We’re very paranoid” about AI safety, Amodei told JPMorgan Chase chief Jamie Dimon at an event hosted by the bank, one of the…
BREAKINGIstanbul – Turkey and Qatar announced on Friday that they signed a mutual defence agreement, which they said was aimed at adopting a “unified position” in the face of an external attack. The announcement came after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al…
BREAKINGIraq’s oil output surged in October and production in the United Arab Emirates held near the previous month’s high, as Gulf producers increased crude flows despite shipping disruptions caused by the ...
BREAKINGOutside a depot near Basra, hundreds of tanker trucks queue to load Iraqi crude oil bound for the Syrian port of Baniyas via an overland d ...
BREAKINGLongtime Sunni politician and Iran critic was reportedly strangled in Beirut, sparking investigation.
BREAKINGIraq’s Jewish community numbered about 150,000 in 1947. Between 1950 and 1952, around 125,000 Iraqi Jews were airlifted to Israel.
BREAKINGIraq barred a plane carrying Iran's national soccer team from landing at Basra airport on Tuesday, a decision by the Iraqi Civil Aviation Authority linked to US sanctions imposed on Iranian airlines ...
BREAKINGThe question for Iraq’s prime minister this week will be whether he will continue on his path of pressure on the militias, or if he will back down.
BREAKINGDrone strike disrupts electricity supply in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region, renewing concerns about armed groups.
BREAKINGSmoke was seen rising from the field, the two sources said. An engineer working at the field said a gas storage facility was hit during the attack, with all crew ordered to go into shelters ...