AI or inequality tipped for economics Nobel
Stockholm, Sweden - The Nobel economics prize wraps up the 2025 season when it is announced on Monday, as experts...
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Tunisian activists urge closure of factory units after poisonings
Tunis, Tunisia -- Activists in Tunisia on Sunday called for the closure of facilities at a chemical factory in Gabes,...
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Turkey’s central bank chief denies nepotism allegations
In a statement posted Friday on X, formerly Twitter, Erkan denounced the reports as "unfounded allegations" designed to undermine confidence...
- Hafize Gaye Erkan, 44, the first woman to be appointed president of the bank, granted her father Erol Erkan special favors, according to recent press reports
- He enjoyed an office, an official car and bodyguards, former bank employee turned whistle-blower Busra Bozkurt told the daily newspaper Sozcu, which is close to the opposition
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Denial of Palestinian statehood ‘unacceptable’, says UN chief
In its final summit communique, the Non-Aligned Movement on Saturday "strongly condemned the illegal Israeli military aggression against the Gaza...
- Guterres said Israel's stance would indefinitely prolong the conflict
- The WHO has deplored the "inhuman living conditions" in the Gaza Strip
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NASA regains contact with mini-helicopter on Mars
Ingenuity, a drone about 1.6 feet (0.5 meters) tall, arrived on Mars in 2021 aboard the rover Perseverance and became...
- NASA has lost contact with the helicopter before, including for two months last year
- It previously said that Ingenuity had attained an altitude of 40 feet (12 meters) on Flight 72
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Years after civil war, security wall holds back Iraqi city
Built more than a decade ago at the height of Iraq's civil war which tore apart the multi-faith, multi-ethnic country,...
- The wall around Samarra has become a burden on daily life in the city that has expanded from 300,000 to 400,000 residents since 2008, pushing up property and land costs
- Authorities has planned to extend wall perimeter by three to seven kilometres, increase the number of entry points to six, and add watchtowers and surveillance cameras
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Israeli protesters demand return of hostages, elections
Demonstrators marched through the city's Habima Square, a frequent protest site, with some carrying signs calling Netanyahu "the face of...
- Netanyahu is under intense pressure to secure the return of the hostages seized by Hamas
- A father of one of the hostages said Netanyahu's war cabinet was heading for disaster
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Iran vows revenge after Guards die in Israeli strike
Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi vowed not to let the "cowardly assassination" go unanswered. Israel has been blamed for intensifying strikes...
- Tehran said it lost five members in the strike that it blamed on Israel
- Media reports from Iran say that one of the dead was General Sadegh Omidzadeh,
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US-led coalition base in Iraq hit by missiles
Al-Asad airbase was targeted by 15 rockets" fired from Anbar province, which is home to the military base, an Iraqi...
- A US defense official confirmed that "missiles impacted Al-Asad airbase", adding that a joint damage assessment was under way with coalition and Iraqi forces.
- The attack on the air base comes amid soaring tensions in the Middle East following the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war on October 7.
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NASA loses contact with its mini-helicopter on Mars
WASHINGTON, US - NASA has lost contact with its tiny helicopter Ingenuity during the hard-working craft's 72nd flight, the space agency...
- In a post on X, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory added that Perseverance was temporarily "out of line-of-sight with Ingenuity.
- NASA has lost contact with the helicopter before, including for an agonizing two months last year.
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Tata Group retains IPL sponsorship rights for record $300m
New Delhi, India - Corporate behemoth Tata Group has again been awarded title sponsorship rights of the Indian Premier League for...
- Tata Group already holds the title sponsorship for the IPL and its sister competition, the Women's Premier League, which staged its first tournament last year
- The IPL attracts cricket's top international stars with bumper salaries, and features 10 sides competing in the sport's hugely popular Twenty20 format
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Coach Mancini warns Saudi against taking Kyrgyzstan lightly
Doha, Qatar - Roberto Mancini warned Saudi Arabia against falling victim to the kind of Asian Cup shock suffered by favorites...
- Coach Mancini's team are ranked 56th in the world and are one of the contenders for the title while Kyrgyzstan are 98th
- The 59-year-old Mancini, who led Italy to European glory in 2021, took over ambitious Saudi Arabia in August last year
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Turkey says Israel leading Middle East to ‘total disaster’
Iran and Israel have been at war for nine days after Israel, claiming the Islamic republic was on the brink...
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Israel says killed three Iranian commanders in fresh wave of strikes
Israel's military said a strike in Qom south of Tehran successfully targeted top Iranian official Saeed Izadi, in charge of...
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Tesla to build first grid-scale power plant in China
New York, United States - Tesla announced Friday that it signed an agreement to build its first grid-scale energy storage...
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Tech-fueled misinformation and disinformation distorts Iran-Israel fighting
AI deepfakes, video game footage passed off as real combat, and chatbot-generated falsehoods -- such tech-enabled misinformation is distorting the...
- The information warfare unfolding alongside ground combat shows a digital crisis in the age of rapidly advancing AI tools that have blurred the lines between truth and fabrication
- The surge in wartime misinformation has exposed an urgent need for stronger detection tools as major tech platforms have weakened safeguards by scaling back moderation
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Israel says delayed Iran’s presumed nuclear programme by two years
Western powers have repeatedly expressed concerns about the rapid expansion of Iran's nuclear programme, questioning in particular the country's accelerated...
- Trump has been mulling whether to involve the United States in Israel's bombing campaign, indicating in his comments that he could take a decision before the two week deadline
- Top diplomats from Britain, France and Germany met their Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi in Geneva on Friday and urged him to resume talks with the United States
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Israeli army chief warns of ‘prolonged campaign’ in Iran
"We have embarked on the most complex campaign in our history to remove a threat of such magnitude, against such...
- Israel launched attacks against Iran last Friday which have combined targeted assassinations of key military personnel with strikes on Iran's nuclear and missile facilities.
- Zamir said the Israeli military had prepared for "years" for the campaign against Iran, even while Israeli troops continue their devastating campaign in Gaza.