SAO PAULO — Brazilian officials on Thursday announced a sharp drop in deforestation rates, pushing back on one of the arguments that the Trump administration used last week…
Read more Brazil reports drop in Amazon deforestation rates, pushing back on US tariff accusationsGENEVA (AP) — French and Swiss authorities will impose a week of pandemic-like border restrictions as U.S. President Donald Trump and other leaders attend a G7 summit starting…
Read more G7 Summit at Swiss-French Border Brings Tight Security in Case Violent Protests OccurWASHINGTON, June 10 (Reuters) – The United States, Australia, European allies and other countries condemned Iran-backed groups’ plots to kill Iranian dissidents, journalists and Jewish communities in a…
Read more Allies Condemn Iran’s ‘Lethal Plotting’ in US, Europe, AustraliaMADRID, Feb 27 (Reuters) – A Spanish women’s rights activist who suffered online abuse, including AI-generated fake nude images, said the government’s pledge to regulate social media does…
Read more Spanish Feminist Targeted by AI Fakes Wants Stricter Online RegulationsFeb 27 (Reuters) – U.S. envoy Tom Barrack met former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, the Shi’ite alliance’s candidate for premier, on Friday, two sources familiar with the…
Read more U.S Envoy Barrack Meets Iraq’s Ex-Prime Minister Maliki, Two Sources SayA public showdown between the Trump administration and Anthropic is hitting an impasse as military officials demand the artificial intelligence company bend its ethical policies by Friday or…
Read more Anthropic refuses to bend to Pentagon on AI safeguards as dispute nears deadlineJAKARTA, Feb 27 (Reuters) – An Indonesian court has jailed nine people in a major corruption case involving subsidiaries of state energy firm Pertamina, including two former chief…
Read more Indonesia Court Jails Ex-CEOs of Pertamina Units in Graft CaseBANGKOK — Shares in the financial technology company Block soared more than 20% in premarket trading Friday after its CEO announced it was laying off more than 4,000…
Read more Fintech company Block lays off 4,000 of its 10,000 staff, citing gains from AIBERLIN, Feb 27 (Reuters) – Buses, trams and trains across Germany ground to a halt early Friday as local transport workers heeded a call by the Verdi public…
Read more Buses, Trams and Trains Grind to a Halt Across Germany at Start of Two-Day StrikeMEXICO CITY — FIFA president Gianni Infantino said Thursday he spoke with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and that he has “full confidence” in Mexico as a host country…
Read more FIFA president says he has full confidence in Mexico as World Cup host despite cartel violencePANAMA CITY — Panamanian investigators carried documents Thursday out of offices belonging to a Hong Kong-owned company that operated ports at either end of the Panama Canal until…
Read more Panamanian investigators remove documents from offices of coBEIJING, Feb 27 (Reuters) – China’s military said on Friday it conducted a routine patrol in the South China Sea from February 23 to 26, and accused the…
Read more China Conducts Patrol in South China Sea, Accuses Philippines of ‘Disrupting’ PeaceMIAMI — Word from the Cuban government of a deadly encounter between its troops and a boat carrying armed expatriates is casting a spotlight on Cubans living in…
Read more Deadly shooting in Cuban waters highlights obsessions with counter-revolutionSAN JOSÉ, Costa Rica — Cuban soldiers confronted a speedboat carrying 10 people as the vessel approached the island and opened fire on the troops, who fired back,…
Read more What to know about the boat shooting in Cuban waters that killed 4DHAKA, Feb 26 (Reuters) – A court in Bangladesh ordered authorities to seek an Interpol red notice against British lawmaker and former minister Tulip Siddiq on Thursday over…
Read more Bangladesh Court Orders Move to Seek Interpol Red Notice for UK Lawmaker SiddiqDAMASCUS, Feb 26 (Reuters) – The Syrian government and Druze factions controlling the southern city of Sweida on Thursday carried out their first prisoner exchange since deadly clashes…
Read more Syrian Government Forces and Druze Factions Exchange Prisoners in SweidaCAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Suno CEO Mikey Shulman pulls up a chair to the recording studio desk where a research scientist at his artificial intelligence company is creating a…
Read more AI song generator startups angered the music industry. Now they’re hoping to join itLONDON, Feb 26 (Reuters) – Images of debris from Russian strikes on Ukraine strongly indicate that Moscow has used a cruise missile whose development led Donald Trump to…
Read more Exclusive-Ukraine Images Indicate Russia Used Missile at Heart of Nuclear Pact CollapseWASHINGTON (AP) — As the U.S. and Iran head into their next round of nuclear talks in Geneva, a new AP-NORC poll finds that many U.S. adults continue…
Read more Most Americans See Iran as an Enemy but Doubt Trump’s Judgment on Military Force, AP-NORC Poll FindsPark Chan-wook, the Korean filmmaker of “Oldboy” and “No Other Choice,” will head the jury at the 79th Cannes Film Festival, festival organizers announced Thursday Park Chan-wook, the…
Read more Park Chan-wook will lead the Cannes Film Festival jury, will be the 1st Korean in the role
