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The Italian government has approved a ban on the burqa and niqab in schools, along with a limit on the share of pupils who speak little Italian in any one class. A 30% cap will be imposed on children...

A priest has been killed and four other people injured in a knife attack in south-east Poland, officials have said.A 31-year-old Ukrainian man was arrested after the stabbings on the grounds of a Catholic abbey in the town of...

Afghanistan's Taliban government said a wave of Pakistani air strikes had killed four civilians in the latest escalation between the two sides.The strikes hit provinces including Kandahar, the Taliban's base of power, sources told the BBC. A resident told...

It's entirely possible other governments have been the victim of rogue AI agents.Former Australian government cybersecurity adviser Alastair MacGibbon told the BBC he'd heard whispers that several others have been notified of similar recent breaches by OpenAI agents."Some have...

In a statement on Thursday, the rapper said that the last couple of weeks had shown him there had been "a collective awakening around Palestinian liberation, the power of billionaires that try to censor that call, and what we...

At least 21 people have been shot by federal immigration agents during the second Trump administration, according to an ABC News count.The most recent shooting was on Sunday, when an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer in Austin, Texas,...

The Greek prime minister has called on Andy Burnham to find the "political will" to send the Parthenon sculptures back to Greece. Kyriakos Mitsotakis wrote in the Guardian that returning the classical treasures, also known as the Elgin Marbles...

London — British Prime Minister Andy Burnham has called the ban on alcohol in the stands at high-level men's soccer matches in the U.K. "discrimination," teasing fellow fans with a possible reversal of a more...

With a valuation of $190 billion, Databricks is now one of Silicon Valley’s biggest—and fastest-growing—software companies. But according to CEO Ali Ghodsi, one key to scaling the company hasn’t been getting his top talent into more meetings—it’s making sure...

A fifth teacher and her student died during a field trip to an Iowa nature reserve this week, investigators and school officials said.Hannah Jorgensen, 24, a fifth-grade teacher at Borlaug Elementary School in Coralville, and Ahmed Osman, 10, died...