AI robots pluck weeds in California fields, make up for shortage of laborers
Los Banos, United States -- Oblivious to the punishing midday heat, a wheeled robot powered by the sun and infused...
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Syria ready to work with US to return to 1974 disengagement deal with Israel
Syria said on Friday it was willing to cooperate with the United States to reimplement the 1974 disengagement agreement with...
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Syria says major damage, runways unusable after Israel hits airport
Syria has confirmed major damage including to runways at Damascus International Airport, which was closed for a second day Saturday...
- Damascus International Airport was closed for a second day Saturday for repairs
- Russia has condemned the attack against essential civilian infrastructure in Syria
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US President says ExxonMobil ‘made more money than God’
President Joe Biden on Friday slammed ExxonMobil for not producing more oil, as soaring gas prices deplete Americans' wallets and...
- ExxonMobil reported massive profits in the first three months of the year despite lower oil and natural gas volumes
- Energy has soared 34.6 percent over the past year, and fuel oil costs more than doubled, jumping 106.7 percent
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Clashes erupt in Tripoli after failed coup
Clashes between armed groups erupted in Libya's capital on Friday night, according to local media, as the country reels from...
- The intense fighting involved two influential militias from western Libya, local media reported.
- After a 2011 revolt toppled the dictator Mouammar Kadhafi, political infighting has plagued oil-rich Libya
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Pakistan unveils $47bn budget, 40% of it to service debt
Pakistan's new government, grappling with soaring inflation and political unrest, unveiled a 9.5 trillion rupee ($47 billion) budget Friday, earmarking...
- Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif blames Pakistan's economic woes on his predecessor Imran Khan, who was ousted by a parliamentary vote of no confidence in April
- Analysts, however, say the problems stem from decades of poor economic management by successive governments and military rulers
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Meta’s Quest VR gear to let people ‘hang out’ in fake worlds
Meta on Friday said that it is adding the ability to easily socialize in virtual reality with an update to...
- Meta is also working on letting people create their own virtual worlds where they host gatherings of avatars, Zuckerberg said
- Horizon Worlds is far from a fully realized metaverse, a future internet where online experiences like chatting to a friend would eventually feel face-to-face thanks to VR headsets
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Iran, Venezuela ink 20-year deal on cooperation in Tehran
Iran and Venezuela signed a 20-year deal on cooperation between the two countries in various sectors including energy, financial and...
- The deal inked by Iran and Venezuela include energy, financial and defense
- From July 18 direct flights would operate between Caracas and Tehran
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Lebanon to restart issuing passports, after shortage concerns
Lebanon said Friday it will resume appointments to issue and renew passports next week after suspending such bookings in late...
- General security had stopped passport services because the Lebanese government failed to pay a passport printing company
- Struggling with financial crisis, passport renewal requests in Lebanon surged tenfold since 2020
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Israel targets Damascus in missile attack, wounding civilian
An Israeli missile attack early Friday hit several targets south of the Syrian capital Damascus, wounding at least one civilian,...
- Syrian air defenses intercepted most of the missiles but those that reached their target left at least one civilian wounded and caused material damage
- The monitor, which relies on a wide network of sources across Syria, said that at least three such positions were hit, leaving a number of people wounded
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US President in dilemma as Iran hardens stance on nuclear deal
A flare-up in tensions between the UN nuclear monitor and Iran this week has left US President Joe Biden in...
- The Vienna talks halted because for US, the final demands by Iran unrelated to nuclear issues
- The US Secretary of State has warned that Iran's removal of the monitoring cameras threatened JCPOA restoration
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Iran arrests 13 bank heist suspects: judiciary
Iran has arrested 13 suspected robbers accused of making off with the contents of more than 160 safe boxes from...
- The fugitives who fled abroad had been detained thanks to "good cooperation" with Interpol and were in the process of being transferred back to the Islamic republic
- The broadcaster aired footage of those it said had been detained in Iran, dressed in prison outfits and facing a wall
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Tunisian economic crisis mutes build-up to Ramadan
Tunisians usually prepare for Ramadan -- when daytime fasting is followed by festive but often costly meals with family and...
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US-led coalition shoots down 15 Yemen rebel drones: CENTCOM
CENTCOM and coalition forces determined that the drones "presented an imminent threat to merchant vessels, US Navy and coalition ships...
Erdogan says March local elections will be his ‘last’
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Asif Ali Zardari: ‘Artful dodger’ returns as Pakistan president
He has spent more than 11 years in jail, a long time even by the standards of Pakistani politicians, with...
- Initially a background character as Bhutto's consort, Zardari was stained by a bevy of corruption and other allegations
- Between 2008 and 2013, he ushered in constitutional reforms rolling back presidential powers, and the 68-year-old's second term will see him steer a largely ceremonial office.
Canada to resume funding UN agency for Palestinians
Canada has reviewed the investigation's interim report and "we were reassured by the contents," Minister of International Development said. He...
- UNRWA has been at the center of controversy since Israel accused 12 of its employees in January of involvement in the October 7 attack
- About 15 countries, including the United States, Britain, Germany and Japan, suspended funding to UNRWA at the end of January
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Italy begins probe into OpenAI’s new video tool Sora
ROME, ITALY – The European country's data protection watchdog - Italian Data Protection Authority - said on Friday it has launched...
- The Italian Data Protection Authority said it was concerned over “the possible implications for the processing of personal data of users.”
- The watchdog said OpenAI -- which also makes chatbot ChatGPT and the image-generating DALL-E -- has 20 days to provide information.