Britain aims for global leadership role with AI safety summit
Britain will host the world’s first global artificial intelligence (AI) safety summit next month, aiming to carve out a role following Brexit as an arbiter between the United States, ...
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Israel pummels Gaza as US sees ‘significant’ risk of attacks on Mideast interests
Fears that the Israel-Hamas war could mushroom into wider Middle East conflict rose on Sunday with Washington warning of a significant risk to U.S. interests in the region as ...
Israel expands evacuations as Lebanon border clashes escalate
Israel expanded planned evacuations of communities on its northern front with Lebanon on Sunday as cross-border clashes with fighters from Lebanese group Hezbollah have intensified since the war in Gaza ...
Iran to host six-nation meeting on Armenia-Azerbaijan peace process
Foreign ministers from Iran, Turkey, Russia and Georgia will meet their counterparts from Azerbaijan and Armenia in Tehran on Monday and discuss progress towards a peace agreement between the two ...
US beefs up Mideast military assets as Israel pounds Gaza, targets in Syria, Lebanon
Concerns about the risk of the Israel-Hamas war mushrooming into a wider Middle East conflict rose on Sunday with the U.S. sending more military assets to the region as ...
New Israeli warning to Gaza residents as first aid trickles in (Updated)
Israel’s military has warned Gaza residents that they risk being identified as accomplices “in a terrorist organisation” if they do not move south, Palestinians there said, amid growing humanitarian ...
Shattered England out after coming so close to upset
England were left distraught and out of the Rugby World Cup after a tactical masterclass semi-final and a lion-hearted display left them millimetres short against defending champions South Africa in ...
City back in groove, United win to honour Charlton
Manchester City beat Brighton & Hove Albion 2-1 and Manchester United honoured the death of club great Bobby Charlton with a 2-1 victory at Sheffield United in the Premier League ...
EU data watchdog urges more privacy safeguards for digital euro
The European Union’s data protection watchdog this week called for stronger privacy safeguards in EU draft legislation to underpin a digital euro.
The European Central Bank (ECB) is due ...
Major cyber attack could cost the world $3.5 trillion
A major cyber attack on a financial services payments system could lead to global losses of $3.5 trillion, with much of it not covered by insurance, commercial insurance market Lloyd’s ...
Foxconn and Nvidia team up to build ‘AI factories’
Taiwan’s Foxconn (2317.TW), the world’s largest contract electronics maker, will build a new kind of data centre using Nvidia (NVDA.O) chips and software for a range of ...
UK mobile operator EE eyes growth from new retail platform
EE, Britain’s biggest mobile operator, said this week that it would launch a sales platform called EE ID to try to grow its retail offering by selling gaming consoles ...
England and Man Utd great Charlton dies aged 86
Bobby Charlton, the Manchester United player who won the World Cup with England and went on to become a much loved and hugely respected ambassador for club and country, died ...
Salah brace earns Liverpool 2-0 win over 10-man Everton in derby
Mohamed Salah scored twice to lift Liverpool to a 2-0 Premier League victory over 10-man Everton in Saturday’s Merseyside derby at Anfield, after Ashley Young was sent off for ...
First emergency aid trucks roll into Gaza after overnight Israeli air strikes (Updated)
By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Emily Rose
Trucks carrying aid crossed into southern Gaza on Saturday, the first convoy of humanitarian supplies since Israel began a devastating siege 12 days ago and ...
Arab leaders denounce Israel attacks on Gaza as risks to region rise (Updated)
Arab leaders condemned Israel’s two-week-old bombardment of Gaza on Saturday and demanded renewed efforts to reach a Middle East peace settlement to end a decades-long cycle of violence between ...
Aid trucks enter Egypt’s Rafah border crossing with Gaza Strip (Updated)
The first humanitarian aid convoy to be sent to the besieged Gaza Strip since war broke out there began moving through the Rafah border crossing from Egypt on Saturday after ...
England bank on master plan to unsettle South Africa in semi-final clash
“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face” and with South Africa being rugby’s equivalent of a Mike Tyson uppercut, England will need to stay focused ...
Microsoft in talks to sign on Amazon as customer in $1 bln cloud tools deal
Microsoft (MSFT.O) is preparing to bring Amazon.com (AMZN.O) as a customer for its 365 cloud productivity tools in a deal worth over $1 billion, news site Insider reported on ...
Infineon signs semiconductor supply deal with automakers Hyundai, Kia
German chip manufacturer Infineon (IFXGn.DE) said earlier this week that it has signed a multi-year agreement with Hyundai and Kia to supply power semiconductors for the production of electric ...
Corporate America weighs risks of the Ozempic effect
US companies across sectors such as food and beverage makers and manufacturers of glucose monitors have faced investor questions over the risk to future sales from the growing popularity of ...
Hamas frees U.S. hostages Judith and Natalie Raanan held in Gaza
The Islamist group Hamas released two U.S. hostages, mother and daughter Judith and Natalie Raanan, who were kidnapped in its attack on southern Israel on Oct. 7, Israeli Prime Minister ...
Belgium justice minister quits after Islamist attack in Brussels
Belgian Justice Minister Vincent van Quickenborne said on Friday he has decided to step down, following pressure over how Belgium had handled the case of a Tunisian gunman who had ...
EU, US to keep talking about tariffs as war in Israel and Ukraine overshadow talks
U.S. and European Union trade negotiators failed to reach deals to settle longstanding trade disputes in the run-up to a summit at the White House on Friday, but Washington ...