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OpenAI gives cyber defence tools to Ukraine

Ukraine will get access to OpenAI's advanced GPT 5.6 Sol model under the deal - a rival to Anthropic's Mythos and Fable

United Kingdom announces action on disinformation and global AI standards

The United Kingdom will fight disinformation at home and abroad, and work to ensure global safety standards for artifici...

What the Trump-Xi meeting could do to strengthen the guardrails for AI

Beyond discussions about artificial intelligence, other key topics are likely to be the Iran war, an ongoing trade truce...

Ransomware Attacks Reach Record High for 2026

A total of 1073 firms fell victim to ransomware attacks globally in August, with the industrial sector the most affected...

UN General Assembly live: Iran’s Pezeshkian, Ukraine’s Zelenskyy to speak

Second day of UN General Assembly kicks off with speeches from world leaders, including from Syria, Iran and Ukraine.

PM, top U.S. envoy discuss ways to strengthen S. Korea-U.S. alliance

Prime Minister Han Seong-sook met with U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Michelle Steel on Wednesday to discuss ways to exp...

Houthi adviser warns of attacks on US interests if Washington intervenes in Yemen

Houthi adviser warns of attacks on US interests if Washington intervenes in Yemen A Houthi military adviser said the gro...

Russia calls for deeper biosafety cooperation within CIS — Lavrov

The Russian foreign minister said that Moscow welcomes the development of regional cooperation in the field of biologica...

UK to review Chagos deal after Trump tells Burnham it is 'terrible'

Britain has suspended its €139 million-a-year lease payments for the Diego Garcia base while ministers try to reshape th...

Perenco on offshore platform electrification quest to power Brazil’s shallow-water fields from shore

In a bid to strike a balance between maximizing asset longevity and curbing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, Perenco Bras...

Yemen's Houthis to target U.S. interests if it supports Saudi-led strikes: Houthi military adviser

While the Yemen civil war predates the U.S.-Iran war by years, renewed fighting in Yemen pits allies of Washington and T...

Israel denounces Macron's UN remarks

Israeli officials have hit back at French President Emmanuel Macron after he criticised Israel’s conduct in the occupied...

Introduction of temporary administration preemptive signal to EU — RSPP chief

Alexander Shokhin expects the attempts to use Russian assets to continue

UBS Says Swiss Parliament Capital Decision Is Not a Compromise

UBS Group AG rejected the latest decision by the Swiss parliament which would impose substantial new capital requirement...

Glencore to help build US minerals stockpile with $500M EXIM financing

The miner and commodities trader will source and deliver materials for a US stockpile designed to shield manufacturers f...

Guterres’s actions as Secretary-General ruined trust in UN — Russian MFA

Kirill Logvinov, Director of the MFA Department of International Organizations, said the Portuguese official’s tenure wi...

Trump’s Fuel Export Ban Threat Sends European Diesel Soaring

President Donald Trump’s push to ban American diesel exports sent European prices for the fuel surging, while US futures...

Ban on Russian diesel increases EU fuel market vulnerability — expert

Nikolay Novik explained that European refineries had historically focused on gasoline production, relying on imports to ...

As the EU advances free trade with Southeast Asia, why is there no ASEAN-wide deal?

After years of arduous negotiations, the EU is closing on a string of bilateral trade deals with countries in Southeast ...

French legal complaint says Israeli army uprooted and stole ancient olive trees from Lebanon

French legal complaint says Israeli army uprooted and stole ancient olive trees from Lebanon Submitted by MEE staff on W...

545 Hackers Tested It First. Now XRanges for AI Scores Your Security Agent

Autonomous security agents are getting good at finding bugs. Nobody has a good way to measure how good. Point one at a r...

Naoero’s president announces his country’s withdrawal from ICC from UNGA podium

According to David Adeang, the ICC has lost its relevance to Naoero

To answer far-right surge, Mamdani and Spain’s Sánchez forge global left-wing ties

Some Democrats are approaching like-minded counterparts abroad in their struggle to counter right-wing populism.

Tigray forces seize main airport in northern Ethiopia from police, residents tell the BBC

There are fears of a return to war in the northern region as tensions between the government and TPLF escalate.

Trump Hails Iran Talks, Swiss Lawmakers Reject UBS Capital Compromise

US President Donald Trump said his officials had “very good” talks with Iranian envoys in New York, reviving hopes for a...

Ukraine adds 1.1 GW of solar in H1

Analysis from the Solar Energy Association of Ukraine estimates the country's solar capacity reached up to 9.7 GW by mid...

IN BRIEF: Kremlin statements on European Russophobic stance, possible Putin-Trump meet

Dmitry Peskov emphasized that high-level negotiations on the Ukrainian settlement, including those between Russia and th...

Explosions, smoke reported near oil refinery in Russia's Bashkortostan

The Russian Defense Ministry said its air defenses had intercepted and destroyed 514 drones overnight over 18 regions, o...

AI Concerns Fuel Growing Tech Scrutiny, Backlash

The topic is set to dominate again at the UN today and in Washington.

Pentagon’s Feinberg Wins Backing From Allies to Keep No. 2 Job

Officials in the Trump administration have backed off an effort to replace Stephen Feinberg, concluding the Pentagon’s N...

Hope for progress after U.S., Iran hold first shuttle talks in months

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner communicated ⁠through mediators o...

Trump to meet China’s Xi as Congress mulls bill banning artificial superintelligence – US politics live

Congress has so far done little to rein in the AI industry even as some of its most prominent leaders warn about potenti...

Microsoft: September Windows updates break Always On VPN connections

Microsoft warned that the September 2026 security updates may also break Always On VPN connections on some Windows 11 sy...

US treasury chief Scott Bessent could be Trump's new AI adviser amid US-China talks: Report

First switch on for ESA-JAXA Ramses asteroid mission

The European Space Agency’s and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Ramses planetary defence spacecraft has been turned...

Leaders scramble to curb rising fuel prices

Some 90 countries have implemented some form of support to cushion the blow on consumers, after the Iran war sent prices...

Anthropic and OpenAI bosses to address the UN

Analysts say Washington and Beijing are unlikely to reach any wide-ranging pact in talks to constrain AI.

Germany urges US to allow Patriot missile production in Europe

Berlin wants to manufacture more interceptors to boost stocks as Ukraine struggles to secure enough air-defence systems

Saddam Hussein used Oliver Reed and a James Bond director to tell Iraq’s story – but who tells it now?

Iraq’s media landscape has undergone profound change over the past two decades.

Exploit Released for Unpatched Ubuntu Linux Flaw Enabling Host-Root Container Escape

A use-after-free in the Linux kernel's AF_UNIX socket subsystem can be used to escape a container and gain root on the h...