LONDON — Governments and corporations worked throughout the night on urgent security updates after the AI-assisted discovery of vulnerabilities in a programming language vital to 70% of websites globally. Many…
ROME — A truckers' protest in southern Italy has halted the production of the famed buffalo mozzarella, causing an estimated loss of 3 million euros in just 24 hours as the milk cannot reach dairies in the Naples region…
SEOUL - A shark that South Korean authorities spent hours guiding into the open sea has swum back into a canal in the port city of Busan, eluding a net that was meant to prevent her return.
PHOENIX — Trees fell onto homes and utility poles were knocked down by a possible tornado in a central Arizona community during a series of violent storms that moved through the state overnight into Thursday. Storms…
BRUSSELS — The International Criminal Court and its embattled staff have won the European Union’s top human rights honor, the Sakharov Prize, an official said Thursday. The award came just days after the Trump…
The ICC, on the outskirts of The Hague, was set up in 2002 to try people accused of the world's worst crimes--war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.
KYIV, Ukraine — Russia bombarded Kyiv with ballistic missiles in an hourslong nighttime barrage, while the Russian military said Thursday that its air defenses intercepted over 800 drones fired by Ukraine at Moscow and…
Russia prides itself on its digital advances — from an extensive e-commerce services sector to ambitious plans for developing artificial intelligence. But now, some of the key data centers at the heart of its technical…
The International Criminal Court and its officials won the EU's 2026 Sakharov human rights prize, less than two weeks after former ICC Judge Navi Pillay was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
TEHRAN — Anti-American propaganda is a common sight on the streets of the Iranian capital, but authorities have gone a step further with their latest effort -- a life-size jail cell with an actor playing US President…
The emergency shutdowns of banking, airline, rail, tax and government services show how much public and corporate systems rely on PHP, and how hard it is to fix such flaws quickly once they are made public
PARIS — Three tech entrepreneurs in France said Wednesday they had launched what they claimed was the first literary prize for books written with artificial intelligence. Named the "Prix Pascal," it does not have a jury…
WASHINTON, D.C. — Governments and companies around the world shut down websites as they raced Thursday to protect themselves from hacks after artificial intelligence uncovered critical flaws in a widely used programming…
French health authorities said they had detected the Shamonda virus usually affecting livestock in a human for the first time in a patient who later died.
LONDON — "Harry Potter" author JK Rowling vowed to keep voicing her opposition to "trans activism" and financially supporting women taking legal action over their rights, in a new essay published on Wednesday. Rowling…
The rush comes after government websites in Europe and elsewhere went offline, with the disclosure of the PHP flaws sending website operators scrambling to protect their systems
'Facebook's wrongdoing — over the course of years and systematically broadcast to the public — goes to the heart of Facebook's core business practices,' Judge Francis Mathew writes in his order
TAIPEI - Taiwan issued a land warning on Thursday ahead of the arrival of powerful Typhoon Champi (Rosal in the Philippines) and canceled more than 100 flights, with the storm expected to brush past the island's…
Taiwan has complained that Beijing is using various underhanded methods to go after Taiwanese who the Chinese government views as separatists or are otherwise politically suspect
A Filipino died in an intercepted drone attack targeting an oilfield facility in Saudi Arabia, the Reuters news agency reported, quoting the country's energy ministry.
Three years on from the reported resumption of large-scale forcible returns of nationals of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) from China, serious concerns persist about their fate, according to a group of…
Global commitments to cut planet-heating emissions are falling far short of the Paris climate goals and put the world on course for 2.6C warming this century, the UN warned Wednesday.
The use of live ammunition, arson and the destruction of centuries-old olive trees have marked the opening weeks of this year’s harvest in the occupied West Bank. At least 160 Israeli settler attacks linked to the olive…
The World Health Organization (WHO) is scaling up emergency health response operations across Afar, Amhara and Tigray in Ethiopia to address growing humanitarian and health needs resulting from ongoing hostilities. The…
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - An attack targeting the King Fahd International Airport in eastern Saudi Arabia's Dammam killed one person and injured eight others Wednesday evening, the kingdom's civil aviation authority said.
A judge on Wednesday ordered Meta to pay New Mexico $25 billion after a jury found the company liable for deceiving users about privacy on Facebook, marking the biggest fine ever against the tech giant. Facebook’s…
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — One Saudi resident was killed in an attack on King Fahd International Airport in Dammam in eastern Saudi Arabia on the Persian Gulf near Bahrain and Qatar, the Saudi Civil Aviation Authority…
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Wednesday that Ukraine supported a US proposal for three-way talks with Russia and the United States at the level of negotiators to be held as soon as possible, preferably no later…
SAINT PETERSBURG — Russia said Wednesday it was ready to resume trilateral talks with Ukraine and the United States after Vladimir Putin met a US envoy and freed a detained American — but Moscow played down the chances…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United States has ordered non-essential US embassy staff and their families to leave Saudi Arabia, the State Department said on Wednesday, as the kingdom comes under sustained deadly attacks by…
VATICAN CITY - Pope Leo will not need any further therapy after undergoing lung cancer surgery last week, his doctors said on Wednesday, indicating that his tumor had not spread.
SYDNEY — Australian police said Thursday they had charged a man over threatening behavior at a lawmaker's office, days after an attack on a parliamentarian that has put a spotlight on security of elected officials. The…
WASHINGTON — Elon Musk, President Donald Trump's multi-billionaire ally, on Wednesday threatened Democrats who want to investigate alleged corruption and his role in the US government if they win control of Congress…
VATICAN CITY - Pope Leo returned to St. Peter's Square on Wednesday, waving to pilgrims and blessing babies from his open-air popemobile as he held his first general audience at the Vatican since undergoing lung cancer…
PAIS, France — A French Mirage 2000D fighter jet crashed in northeastern France during a training flight, leaving both crew dead, officials said Wednesday. The plane went down at 2100 GMT Tuesday near its air base on…
LOS ANGELES, United States — Kurt Suzuki will not be retained as manager of the Los Angeles Angels after the first 100-loss campaign in club history, the Major League Baseball team announced on Wednesday. At 62-100 in…
Two police officers and two members of the public were injured in an explosion at a building in central Athens, Greek police said on Wednesday.
NEW YORK, United States — Tesla reported a drop in third-quarter profits Wednesday but topped analyst estimates as multi-billionaire Elon Musk's electric vehicle maker invested heavily in new technologies. Texas-based…
NEW YORK — US e-commerce platform eBay will cut some 1,000 jobs, or about nine percent of its workforce, a spokesperson told AFP on Wednesday, following an initial round of layoffs in February. The company informed…
IDAHO — Conservatives are banding together to grow classical Christian schools by leveraging new taxpayer-funded scholarships. These scholarships have rapidly expanded in states around the country. They mean half of…
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