President Donald Trump has abandoned his threat to impose a 20% fee on cargo passing through the Strait of Hormuz, replacing the proposed levy with trade and investment deals with Gulf states. The reversal came just 24 hours after the fee was announced and hours before the US military is scheduled to resume its naval […]
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has struck two UAE-flagged tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, killing an Indian crew member and injuring eight others, as the United States carried out a third consecutive night of strikes against Iranian military targets. The UAE Ministry of Defence condemned the attacks as “brazen” and a “serious violation” of […]
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina has died suddenly, removing an influential voice from a Senate where the GOP majority was already strained by the extended absence of Senator Mitch McConnell. Governor Henry McMaster, a Republican, will appoint a temporary replacement under state law. Because Graham was up for reelection this year, his death […]
BANGKOK — At least 27 people have been killed and eight critically injured after a fire tore through a bar in Bangkok’s Chatuchak district late on Sunday, authorities said. Most of the victims were found in a bathroom where they had sought shelter from the flames and died of smoke inhalation. Firefighters arrived just after […]
The number of ships taking the southern route through the Strait of Hormuz has collapsed into single figures. Phil Belcher, marine director at Intertanko, the international organisation for independent tanker owners, gave the figures on Thursday morning. A week ago, about 70 ships a day were transiting. Before the war began in February, the normal […]
PARIS — A French appeal court has upheld Marine Le Pen’s conviction for embezzling European Parliament funds but reduced her ban on public office, clearing the way for her to stand in the 2027 presidential election. The National Rally figurehead was found guilty of diverting €2.8 million (£2.4m) in funds meant for hiring parliamentary assistants over […]
Ukraine’s air force has said a “serious shortage” of interceptor missiles meant none of the 23 ballistic missiles fired by Russia at the capital on Sunday night were shot down, as the death toll from the strikes rose to at least 19 people. Thirteen people were killed in Kyiv and six more in the wider […]
ZURICH — Uefa has strongly criticised Fifa’s decision to cancel the automatic suspension of United States striker Folarin Balogun, calling the move “unprecedented, incomprehensible and unjustifiable” and warning that the “integrity of the game is at stake.” Balogun was sent off against Bosnia-Herzegovina after a VAR review and should have missed the last-16 tie against Belgium […]
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is escalating. Case counts are rising. Response efforts are falling behind. Most people reading this will never come into contact with the pathogen. They are thousands of miles from the outbreak zone. Their bodies require no immunological defence. Their minds are mounting one anyway. The mechanism […]
PARIS — One of the world’s leading artificial intelligence researchers has said current AI systems like ChatGPT are “not smart” and cannot lead to human-level intelligence, as he and other experts pursue a new approach to building machines that can understand the physical world. Yann LeCun, who left his role as chief AI scientist at Facebook-owner […]
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