The October 21 attack in Bamyan highlights the risks facing UN personnel and the challenges of monitoring human rights under Taliban rule. While the attackers’ identities and motives remain unclear, an independent
North Korea marked the 80th anniversary of the Workers’ Party of Korea with a spectacle that seemed more influenced by K-pop than traditional socialist pageantry, according to a report in The Times
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A barrister has come under fire for relying on artificial intelligence to draft legal submissions that included “entirely fictitious” case citations, according to a report in The Times UK. Chowdhury Rahman, an
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UBS Group AG is intensifying checks on the origins of client funds in its rapidly growing Asian wealth hubs, prompting some customers to provide more detailed disclosures. The move comes as the
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Russian forces may have tested an upgraded glide bomb able to hit targets as far as 150 kilometers, according to the military-focused Telegram channel Voyenny Obozrevatel. Standard Russian glide bombs are typically
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China’s aggressive move to impose unprecedented export controls on rare-earth minerals has triggered an international response, highlighting the growing friction between Beijing and major global economies, according to Bloomberg. The restrictions, which
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Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, Harini Amarasuriya, has made her first official visit to New Delhi. She previously remarked that Sri Lanka lacks a coherent foreign policy: “We do not seem to have a
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In January 1968, the frozen silence of Greenland’s North Star Bay was shattered by the crash of a U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber carrying nuclear weapons, scattering plutonium across the ice and
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In cities across India, startups are deploying artificial-intelligence chatbots designed to mimic human conversation, promising to drastically reduce the need for customer-service staff. Companies like LimeChat claim their AI agents can cut
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), the world’s largest producer of advanced AI chips, is set to report a 28% increase in third-quarter profit, reaching a record T$417.7 billion ($13.65 billion), driven by
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For more than ten years, Chinese state actors successfully infiltrated the United Kingdom’s classified computer systems, accessing low and medium-level government data in what security officials have described as a sustained and
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US President Donald Trump announced that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has agreed to end India’s purchases of oil from Russia, a move that could ease tensions between Washington and New Delhi
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US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent signaled that Washington could extend a pause on tariffs on Chinese goods beyond the current three-month window if Beijing agrees to halt its planned export restrictions on
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US President Donald Trump confirmed on Wednesday that he has authorized CIA operations on Venezuelan soil. The decision allows intelligence operatives to conduct missions targeting the government of President Nicolas Maduro, whom
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NATO defense chiefs have been privately advocating for expanded engagement rules to permit the shooting down of Russian jets armed with ground-attack missiles. The move aims to create a “unified, single air
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Thailand has accused Cambodia of planting new anti-personnel landmines along their shared border, following a July 16 incident in which Thai Second Lieutenant Baramee Sricha’s patrol triggered a mine that severed a
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