- Technology
EU investigates into Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok over sexual deepfakes
Brussels: European Union (EU) regulators on Monday, January 26, opened a formal investigation into Elon Musk’s social media platform X after his artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Grok started spewing nonconsensual sexualised deepfake…
- World
Myanmar military using commercial paramotors, gyrocopters for attacks: Report
Bangkok: Myanmar’s military is making increasing use of commercial paramotors and gyrocopters, low-tech flying machines that expand their capabilities to attack civilians and anti-government forces from the sky as the country’s civil…
- Middle East
Gaza: Israeli troops scour cemetery for remains of final hostage
Israeli teams were combing through a Gaza cemetery Monday for the remains of the final hostage in Gaza, the military said, after Hamas claimed it had done all required of it under…
- Middle East
Israel intensifies operation in search for last hostage in Gaza
Nahariya: Israel said Sunday, January 25, its military was conducting a “large-scale operation” to locate the last hostage in Gaza, as Washington and other mediators pressure Israel and Hamas to move into…
- Middle East
Iraq to prosecute IS militants transferred from Syria under US-brokered deal
Baghdad: Baghdad will prosecute and try militants from the Islamic State group who are being transferred from prisons and detention camps in neighbouring Syria to Iraq under a US-brokered deal, Iraq said…
- World
Protests erupt in Minneapolis again after Border Patrol fatally shoots nurse
Minneapolis: Democrats demanded that federal immigration officers leave Minnesota after a US Border Patrol agent fatally shot a man in Minneapolis on Saturday, January 24, drawing hundreds of protesters onto the frigid…
- World
Trump’s Greenland ambitions strain MAGA ties with Europe’s far-right
Brussels: Tensions over US President Donald Trump’s plans to take control of Greenland have driven a wedge in the once iron-clad link between MAGA and Europe’s far-right. The rift seems to signal…
- Pakistan
Two Pakistan human rights lawyers jailed for 17 years
Islamabad: A Pakistani court on Saturday, January 24, sentenced two human rights lawyers to 17 years in prison each over social media posts the authorities claimed were hostile to the state and…
- World
Trilateral talks with Russia, US constructive, says Zelenskyy
Kyiv: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday, January 24, that two days of trilateral talks with Russia and the United States in Abu Dhabi concluded with “constructive” discussions on “possible parameters for…
- World
Indonesia’s Java hit by landslide; 8 dead, 82 missing
Jakarta: A predawn landslide triggered by torrential rains on Indonesia’s main island of Java killed at least eight people on Saturday and left 82 missing as rescuers struggled through deep mud, searching…
- Business
Meta pauses teen access to AI characters
San Francisco: Meta is halting teens’ access to artificial intelligence characters, at least temporarily, the company said in a blog post Friday. Meta Platforms Inc, which own Instagram and WhatsApp, said that…
- World
Over 8,000 flights cancelled in US amid winter storm
Dallas: More than 8,000 flights across the US set to take off over the weekend have been cancelled as a major storm expected to wreak havoc across much of the country bears…
- World
Subzero Minnesota sees mass protest against immigration enforcement
Minneapolis: Police arrested about 100 clergy demonstrating against immigration enforcement at Minnesota’s largest airport Friday, January 23, and thousands gathered in downtown Minneapolis despite Arctic temperatures to protest the Trump administration’s crackdown.…
- Middle East
People burn garbage to keep warm in Gaza, far from Trump’s vision
Cairo: Desperate Palestinians at a garbage dump in a Gaza neighbourhood dug with their bare hands for plastic items to burn to keep warm in the cold and damp winter in the…
- World
ICE detains 5-year-old boy who was used as ‘bait’ in Minnesota
Minnesota: A five-year-old boy arriving home from preschool in Minnesota was taken by federal agents along with his father to a detention facility in Texas, school officials and the family’s lawyer said,…
