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H5N1 bird flu reaches second Australian state; PNG bans poultry imports
SYDNEY, June 24 — Australian authorities ramped up surveillance and testing after a second state reported a case of the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu, while neighbouring Papua New Guinea […]
Sydney shark attack survivor conscious, utters first words after Coogee Beach mauling
SYDNEY, June 24 — An Australian woman mauled by a shark at a popular Sydney beach briefly emerged from an induced coma and said “I love you” to family, according […]
US intelligence: Mythos AI found classified systems flaws ‘in hours’
WASHINGTON, June 24 — Anthropic’s Mythos model identified vulnerabilities in highly sensitive US government computer systems during a testing exercise, the Associated Press reported on Tuesday. Anthropic teamed up with […]
US congress votes to stop Iran war the White House claims is already over
WASHINGTON, June 24 — The US Senate passed a largely symbolic resolution Tuesday calling for an end to President Donald Trump’s war with Iran, delivering a fresh rebuke to the […]
AC sales skyrocket in France and Italy as ‘unprecedented’ 41C heatwave cooks Europe
PARIS, June 24 — Europe braced Wednesday for another day of an unprecedented heatwave that has smashed records in many countries and sent air conditioner sales zooming in a continent […]
Marco Rubio: US rejects Iranian tolls and fees in Strait of Hormuz
TEHRAN, June 24 — US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday that Washington would not accept Iranian tolls or fees on the Strait of Hormuz, as disputes over the […]
Undoing the ‘tangled nest’ of Iran sanctions won’t be easy or quick
WASHINGTON, June 23 — Tehran stands to gain billions of dollars from a 60-day reprieve from US sanctions announced yesterday, but unwinding more than four decades of restrictions poses legal, […]
Trump announces Iran’s ‘nuclear honesty’ with full inspection agreement
WASHINGTON, June 23 — US President Donald Trump said today that Iran has “fully and completely agreed” to allow nuclear inspectors to return to the country, and that US Navy […]
UN investigators: Israel ‘deliberately targeting’ Palestinian children as part of Gaza ‘genocide’
GENEVA, June 23 — Israel is deliberately targeting Palestinian children in what has become a key factor in an ongoing “genocide” in Gaza, United Nations investigators charged on Tuesday, in […]
UN chief demands tech giants ‘be honest’ about the hidden water, power, and carbon cost of the AI boom
LONDON, June 23 — The United Nations called on major artificial intelligence companies on Tuesday to publicly disclose the full environmental cost of their data centres and use renewable power, […]