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A cemetery in Sanaa for people killed in the war in Yemen. A Saudi delegation is holding ceasefire negotiations with Houthi leaders in the Yemeni capital in an effort to a end to the eight-year conflict between the Houthis and the Saudi-backed Yemeni g…

As the first female boss of GCHQ, Anne Keast-Butler will take the helm at the intelligence agency as it responds to “some of the most challenging issues of our time” (GCHQ/PA) — © GCHQ
As the first female boss of GCHQ, Anne Keast-Butler will take the h…

O bsession, a new erotic drama series starring Richard Armitage and Charlie Murphy is about to make the nation hot under the collar.
The Netflix show, which premieres on Thursday evening, has already caused a buzz across the internet, with articles des…

The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank in the US and the bailout of Credit Suisse in Switzerland have spooked the International Monetary Fund, denting its hopes that 2023 would see an end to the series of setbacks that have afflicted the global economy si…

China proposed new checks on artificial intelligence chatbots on Tuesday, in an effort to control how its tech industry rolls out generative AI models, as popularized by ChatGPT in the US.…
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The IMF, which is holding its spring meetings in Washington this week, downgraded its outlook for global growth and said its medium term forecast for economic output was now at the weakest level since the fund began publishing these forecasts in 1990.&…

As China moves closer to mass production of its first large passenger jet, details are emerging that reveal how a state-owned aircraft manufacturer was able to build a plane that looks remarkably similar to a Boeing 737.…
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Myanmar’s military has killed dozens of people in airstrikes on an event organised by its domestic opponents, in what is feared to be one of the deadliest attacks since the junta seized power more than two years ago.…
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Cryptocurrency isn’t in favor with global authorities right now, to put it mildly.
Fallen FTX wunderkind Sam Bankman-Fried sits under house arrest in California, facing a lifetime’s worth of fraud and bribery charges.…
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What does the leak involve?
The leak involves what appear to be classified US intelligence documents – some top secret – a number of which relate to the war in Ukraine.…
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PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron has caused a stir by saying Europe has no interest in accelerating the conflict in Taiwan and should become a “third pole” independent of both Washington and Beijing.…
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NVIDIA has a knack for jumping headfirst into the market's latest obsession or fad, be it the crypto mania …

Is AI-led job displacement about to reshape the economy?
Not so long ago we were worried less about chatbots and more so about robots. In 2013 the Oxford researchers Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne released a paper claiming that 47 per cent of j…

“His holiness often teases people he meets in an innocent and playful way,” announces an apology from the office of the Dalai Lama, sounding for all the world like one of those statements issued in the first wave of #MeToo, as various older men made pa…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — American and Filipino forces on Tuesday launched their largest combat exercises in decades in the Philippines and its waters across the disputed South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait, where Washington has repeatedly warned Ch…

A CHINESE attempt to ‘strangle’ Taiwan with a blockade could spark war between Beijing and the United States, experts have warned.
With America committed to defending Taiwan, the each time China tries to tighten the noose, the possibility of nuclear co…

Australia's Defence chief has declined to say how many senior officers have faced punishment over the damning findings of the Afghanistan war crimes inquiry, but has warned of "uncomfortable days" ahead as more disciplinary action is …

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Rather than undertake mandatory upgrades, for-profit nursing homes in Toronto have opted to sell their properties to real estate developers in a move that threatens to derail Ontario’s plan to have 60,000 new and upgraded beds in care hom…

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd BABAF on Tuesday showed off its generative AI model – its version of the tech that powers chatbot sensation ChatGPT – and said it would be integrated into all of the company’s apps in the near future.…
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TAIPEI—Patriotic badges showing Winnie the Pooh being punched in the face by a Taiwanese black bear—a humorous dig at China’s leader Xi Jinping—have gone viral across the self-ruled island.
The iron-on patches being worn by some of Taiwan’s air force p…

We can hate the idea that Americans are being taken hostage by foreign governments — a special category of hostage-taking called “wrongful detention” — though this practice is likely to continue until we find the right means of disincentivizing such be…