Qatar meets ICC head as it mulls legal action against Israel
Doha, Qatar -- Qatar has met with the president of the International Criminal Court as it seeks legal action against...
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Scientists train AI model to predict future illnesses
Paris, France - Scientists said Wednesday that they had created an AI model able to predict medical diagnoses years in...
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Oil-reliant Saudi revises budget, projects deficit
The Gulf kingdom, the world's biggest crude exporter, had planned for a surplus of 16 billion Saudi riyals ($4.27 billion)...
- Oil revenue this year has fallen by 17 percent as prices have dipped and Riyadh has cut production in a bid to boost them
- Daily output is currently nine million barrels per day, down two million barrels from this time last year
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Italian-Palestinian man held by Israel due to be released, says lawyer
ROME, ITALY - An Italian-Palestinian student detained without charges by Israel since August was due to be released, his lawyer in...
- Khaled El Qaisi, 27, was arrested on August 31 while crossing from the West Bank to Jordan after a family vacation in his home city of Bethlehem.
- Family members in Rome appealed last month for intervention from Italy to help the student, who was born in Palestine but is also an Italian citizen.
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Turkey says ‘terrorist attack’ took place in Ankara
The ministry said two attackers arrived in a commercial vehicle around 9:30 am (0630 GMT) "in front of the entrance...
- The targeted district is home to several other ministries and the Turkish parliament, which was due to reopen today with an address from President
- TV channel reported gunfire in the cordoned-off district, where emergency services were in attendance, nobody immediately claimed the attack
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Libya’s eastern govt postpones Derna reconstruction conference
The conference was put off until November 1-2 to "offer time for the submission of effective studies and projects" for...
- The authorities later said that the conference would draw in international corporations, and on Sunday the committee said the postponed event would be held in Derna and Benghazhi.
- Libya is divided between an internationally recognized Tripoli-based administration in the west, and the one in the flood-stricken east backed by military strongman Khalifa Haftar.
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Threats and violence as Turks feud over soaring rents
The government has capped property rent increases at 25 percent for households, and aligned them with the official inflation rate...
- Rents in Turkey have soared by an average of 121 percent over the past year, according to a study published by Bahcesehir University in August
- Inflation approached 60 percent in August, but independent t economists say consumer price increases actually reached at least 128 percent
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Meta technology chief defends tech titan’s AI strategy
The company launched AI-infused chatbots with personalities at the gathering, along with tools for creating images or written content using...
- "The majority of the world's population will have their first experience of generative AI with us," said Andrew Bosworth
- Bosworth was adamant that Meta is not behind, enhancing its global platforms with AI since before ChatGPT was launched
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Afghan embassy in India suspends operations
Most foreign nations -- including India -- do not officially recognize Afghanistan's Taliban government but acknowledge them as the de...
- India will take control of the Afghanistan embassy in a caretaker capacity, said an embassy statement posted on social media
- The unsigned statement said it had been "increasingly challenging" to continue operations due to cuts in staff and resources
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Congress passes bill, averting US government shutdown
Three hours before the deadline, the Senate voted to keep the lights on through mid-November with a resolution that had...
- Tonight, bipartisan majorities in the House and Senate voted to keep the government open, US President Joe Biden said
- Biden berated McCarthy and the House Republicans for reneging on spending levels agreed with the White House months ago
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Israeli forces kill Palestinian in West Bank: ministry
Palestinian official news agency Wafa reported that Israeli forces had fired "live bullets and tear gas canisters at several young...
- The ministry identified the teenager as 16-year-old Milad Munther al-Raee who was killed at the entrance to Al-Arroub refugee camp
- The Israeli military said "terrorists hurled molotov cocktails" at soldiers who were at a military post adjacent to the camp
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China rejects US disinformation accusations, calls Washington ’empire of lies’
Beijing, China - China on Saturday accused the United States of being an "empire of lies", hitting back after a State...
- The report, released Thursday by the US State Department's Global Engagement Center, accused China of financing propaganda, disinformation.
- "It is the U.S. that invented the weaponizing of the global information space," a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said in a statement.
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Global tax plans targeting super rich and tech giants stall under Trump
Paris, France -- Global tax plans targeting billionaires and multinational companies are running aground, with the United States torpedoing reforms...
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Anti-hero Star Wars series “Andor” heads towards its finale
Paris, France -- If "Andor" -- which returns from Tuesday for its second and final season -- has been received...
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‘Resist Tyranny’: Another round of anti-Trump demonstrations hit major US cities
Many took aim at Trump's deportations of undocumented migrants, chanting "No ICE, no fear, immigrants are welcome here," a reference...
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US Supreme Court intervenes to pause Trump deportations
Washington, United States - The US Supreme Court, in a dramatic nighttime intervention Saturday, paused President Donald Trump's unprecedented use...
- The emergency ruling, delivered in two terse paragraphs, noted that two of the most conservative of the nine justices had dissented
- The order temporarily prevents the government from continuing to expel migrants under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act
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Putin announces ‘Easter truce’ in Ukraine set to last until midnight on Sunday
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday announced a surprise Easter truce in Ukraine, set to last until midnight on Sunday...
- The short-term order for Russia's troops to halt all combat activity comes after months of US President Donald Trump pushing both Moscow and Kyiv to agree a truce
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a social media post responded sceptically to the truce proposal, accusing Putin of attempting to "play with human lives."
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McLaren duo in ominous show of force in Saudi final practice
Lando Norris pipped teammate Oscar Piastri in final practice in Jeddah with the McLaren duo streets clear of the chasing...
- McLaren are seeking their fourth win from five on Sunday, after Norris took the season-opener in Melbourne with Piastri winning in China and Sakhir
- Norris leads the drivers standings by three points from Piastri with Verstappen a further five points back ahead of this fifth round of the 24-race season