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Lyse Doucet: Strait of Hormuz remains the fault line as the Iran and US drift back into war

Last night, far from the thunder of this escalation, its parliament quietly introduced a new bill to manage the strait called the Strategic Action for the Security and Sustainable Progress of the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf.That...

‘Those who condemn AI are themselves spitting upward’: SoftBank’s CEO estimates $5 trillion needed annually to meet AI demand | Fortune

Worries about a bubble in artificial intelligence investments are absurd, SoftBank Group’s CEO Masayoshi Son said Tuesday, deriding such doubts as backward and akin to questioning the use of cars and planes.“To ask whether AI is a bubble is a foolish...

Prominent American marine biologist shot dead, companion injured in the Philippines

A distinguished American marine biologist has been shot dead by three men who entered his house in the central Philippines, police said on Tuesday. Kent Carpenter, 73, was with his Filipina companion in a house...

ICE to temporarily halt conducting vehicle stops, sources say

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been ordered to temporarily stop conducting vehicle stops in the wake of two deadly shootings in Texas and Maine, sources told ABC News.Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin gave the directive, a law enforcement...

Israeli strike on police post in Gaza kills seven, officials say

An Israeli air strike on a post belonging to Gaza's Hamas-run police force has killed at least seven people, including a senior officer, health and police officials say.Witnesses told the BBC that an Israeli drone fired four missiles at...

Trump scraps threat of 20% fee on Hormuz cargo as US prepares to resume blockade of Iran ports

President Donald Trump has reversed his threat of a 20% fee on all Strait of Hormuz cargo shipping, as the US battles to break Iran's hold on the waterway.He said the toll would be replaced by trade and investment...

Trump pays writer E Jean Carroll $5m in damages over sexual abuse and defamation

US President Donald Trump has paid writer E Jean Carroll more than $5m (£3.7m) in damages three years after he was found liable for sexually abusing and defaming her in a civil case, her lawyers confirmed."Today, we are pleased...

China rejects report that U.S. scientist Youlin Chen is being wrongfully detained

China rejected on Tuesday an accusation that it has wrongfully detained a U.S. citizen following a report by the Reuters news agency that an American seismologist has been held in the country for nearly two...

Tyrannosaurus Rex most expensive dinosaur ever sold

The dinosaur skeleton, which roamed the planet 67 million years ago, was sold by Sotheby's in New York. Source link

NASA astronaut joins Russian cosmonauts in launch to International Space Station

A NASA astronaut blasted off from a launch site in Kazakhstan Tuesday along with two Russian cosmonauts as part of a mission to the International Space Station.Anil Menon launched aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome...
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US states sue to block Trump tariffs impacting dozens of countries

Twenty five US states sued the administration of US President Donald Trump on Monday over new tariffs of 10%...
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