Houthis Claim Missile Strikes on Riyadh and Aramco as Saudi Allies Plan Urgent War Talks Yemen’s Houthi rebels said on Thursday they launched missile and drone attacks on the Saudi capital Riyadh and on Saudi Aramco facilities in the Red…
Anthropic Signs $11.6 Billion Cloud Deal With Akamai to Power AI Growth Anthropic is spending big to keep up with surging demand for its AI models. The Claude maker has signed an $11.6 billion, seven-year cloud services agreement with Akamai…
Italy’s right-wing government has approved a decree banning the burqa and niqab in the country’s schools and capping the share of foreign pupils in each classroom at 30%, a move opponents say is aimed at countering a rising far-right rival…
The road to the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations officially began on Thursday, as the first round of qualifiers kicked off across the continent. The Democratic Republic of Congo picked up where their historic World Cup campaign left off with…
The war against Iran entered a dangerous new phase on Thursday as Washington’s “economic D-Day” sanctions deadline took effect, Iranian flights to the Gulf were cancelled, and Saudi Arabia shot down six Houthi ballistic missiles in a single day. The…
In what may be the first publicly reported case of an artificial intelligence model hacking into a government’s computer systems, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has revealed that an OpenAI AI agent broke into a federal health data portal —…
Anthropic has announced that its Claude artificial intelligence model helped discover a previously unknown enzyme system with properties reminiscent of CRISPR, the gene-editing technology that transformed modern biology. The finding, disclosed on Wednesday, September 23, 2026, is the first result…
On Thursday, September 24, 2026, US President Donald Trump welcomed Chinese President Xi Jinping to the White House for a day of high-stakes talks, as the world’s two biggest powers tried to keep their rivalry from sliding into open confrontation.…
Ethiopia is sliding back toward war. The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), which controls the country’s northern Tigray region, told the AFP news agency on Thursday that it is now in a state of “full-blown war” with the federal government…
A federal judge in Washington ordered the Trump administration early Thursday to restore White House access for journalists from CNN, MS NOW, and Politico, declaring that the outlets’ removal from the White House press corps was likely unconstitutional. U.S. District…
