Google, Meta, Qualcomm team up to push for open digital ecosystems
Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google, Meta Platforms (META.O), Qualcomm (QCOM.O) and seven other tech companies on Wednesday teamed up to push for open digital ecosystems in response to ...
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South Korea to provide $29 bln to support battery industry over 5 yrs
South Korea will provide 38 trillion won ($29 billion) in financing to strengthen its battery industry over the next five years, as global competition to secure battery supply chains remains fierce, the ...
Arsenal move top of the league with 2-0 win over Brighton
A dominant Arsenal side beat Brighton & Hove Albion 2-0 at home on Sunday with second-half goals from Gabriel Jesus and Kai Havertz, as the north London side provisionally moved ...
Israel uncovers ‘biggest Hamas tunnel’ near Gaza border
Israeli forces battling Hamas said they had uncovered an unusually large concrete and iron-girded tunnel, designed to carry carloads of militant fighters from Gaza right up to the border.
Razing ...
Pope Francis deplores Israeli killings of civilians at Gaza church
Pope Francis on Sunday again suggested Israel was using “terrorism” tactics in Gaza, deploring the reported killing by the Israeli military of two Christian women who had taken refuge in ...
North Korea fires suspected ballistic missile, condemns US for raising tensions
North Korea fired an unidentified ballistic missile on Sunday, Japan’s Coast Guard and the South Korean military said, as Pyongyang condemned U.S.-led military shows of force as ...
Serbians vote in snap election, ruling party set to secure another term
Serbians voted on Sunday in a snap election seen as an effort by President Aleksandar Vucic and his populist Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) to secure another four-year term, after two ...
Aid enters Gaza through Kerem Shalom crossing for first time (updated)
The Kerem Shalom crossing between Israel and Gaza opened on Sunday for aid trucks for the first time since the outbreak of war, officials said, a move intended to double ...
Israel steps up Gaza bombardment after talks on hostages
Israel stepped up its bombardment of Gaza overnight and into Sunday, killing at least 40 people, Palestinians said, after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu argued that the only way to secure ...
Children help Pope Francis mark 87th birthday
Pope Francis turned 87 on Sunday feted by children who helped him blow out a single candle on a white cake.
The children, from a Vatican-run paediatric clinic, sang for the ...
Putin says Russia has no plan to attack NATO, dismisses Biden remark as ‘nonsense’
Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin dismissed as complete nonsense remarks by U.S. President Joe Biden that Russia would attack a NATO country if it won the war in Ukraine, adding ...
Hamas turns Gaza streets into deadly maze for Israeli troops
The Israeli army’s death toll in Gaza is already almost twice as high as during a ground offensive in 2014, a reflection of how far it has pushed into the ...
Sixty-one migrants drown in shipwreck off Libya
Sixty-one migrants, including women and children, drowned following a shipwreck off Libya, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Libya said.
IOM, in a post on social media platform X, ...
Israel-Qatar meet, raising prospects of Gaza hostage talks
Israel appeared to confirm that new negotiations were under way to recover hostages held by Hamas, after a source said Israel’s intelligence chief met the prime minister of Qatar, ...
Meta used copyrighted books for AI training despite its own lawyers’ warnings, authors allege
Meta Platforms’ (META.O) lawyers had warned it about the legal perils of using thousands of pirated books to train its AI models, but the company did it anyway, according ...
Epic Games verdict adds to Google’s global antitrust woes
“Fortnite” maker Epic Games won a major antitrust trial against Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O) in San Francisco, persuading a federal jury on Monday that some of the technology giant’...
Cisco defeats Centripetal patent case that led to $2.75 bln award
A federal judge in Virginia has rejected cybersecurity company Centripetal Networks’ patent infringement claims against Cisco Systems (CSCO.O) in a multi-billion-dollar fight over network-security technology.
A different judge in ...
Olise’s late penalty gives Crystal Palace unexpected 2-2 draw with Manchester City
Michael Olise scored a stoppage-time penalty as Crystal Palace clawed back from two goals down to draw 2-2 with Manchester City in the Premier League at the Etihad Stadium on ...
Luton’s Lockyer suffers cardiac arrest on pitch (Update)
Saturday’s Premier League match between Bournemouth and Luton Town was abandoned in the 65th minute after Luton captain Tom Lockyer suffered a cardiac arrest and collapsed on the pitch.
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Turkish club chief’s attack on referee sparks call for government action
This week’s shocking attack on a referee by a club president has thrust the entire culture of Turkish football into the spotlight, with the escalating issues of political influence ...
Kuwait’s Emir Sheikh Nawaf dies, Sheikh Meshal named as successor
Kuwait’s Emir Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Sabah died on Saturday, aged 86, according to the royal court, just over three years after assuming power in the U.S.-allied Gulf oil ...
Israeli hostages killed in Gaza were holding white flag, official says
Three Israeli hostages killed mistakenly in Gaza by Israeli forces had been holding up a white flag, a military official said on Saturday, citing an initial inquiry into the incident ...
Putin to run as independent candidate for new presidential term
Vladimir Putin will run for president again as an independent candidate with a wide support base but not on a party ticket, Russian news agencies reported on Saturday, citing his ...
London police to “carefully consider” Prince Harry phone hacking ruling
London’s police said they will “carefully consider” the findings of a court ruling that found Prince Harry had been a victim of phone hacking and other unlawful acts by ...