Iran-backed Houthis said Monday they had struck Riyadh’s international airport, an oil refinery and other sites in Saudi Arabia, as the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen said they had destroyed Houthi targets on the Red Sea coast. Pakistan and Turkey have pledged to deploy troops to Saudi Arabia under a new mutual defence pact following weeks […]
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Separatists win Quebec election in test for Canada PM
Separatists won provincial elections in Quebec on Monday, with a promise to hold a vote on leaving Canada after US President Donald Trump leaves office, testing Prime Minister Mark Carney’s message of national unity. But the Parti Quebecois fell short of a majority government in Canada’s French-speaking province, offering some solace for the federalist camp. The […]
COP31 eyes modest steps as climate disasters multiply
Nations reeling from a year of climate devastation gather for COP31 next month but negotiations are not expected to deliver major progress in cutting the fossil fuels driving the crisis. The conference follows deadly heatwaves and fires in Europe, catastrophic floods in Nepal and record temperatures around the world, testing whether the United Nations-backed talks […]
Bolsonaro rides right-wing surge into Brazil’s election runoff
Brazil’s Flavio Bolsonaro heads to a runoff election buoyed by sweeping gains in Congress, after a shock first-place poll finish hailed by US President Donald Trump as a “big victory.”The right-wing senator finished two percentage points ahead of leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who faces an uphill battle to secure a fourth term […]
‘Reckless’ AI firms can’t control models, says whistleblower
Leading artificial intelligence companies do not know how to keep AI systems from pursuing objectives their developers did not assign, whistleblower Jacob Coxon, a former OpenAI and Anthropic employee, warned Monday.”Companies are being extremely reckless given the stakes,” Coxon told local lawmakers at a hearing before the New York City Council. In early September, the British […]
Trump approves firing squad for convicted US military base shooter
President Donald Trump has approved the execution by firing squad of Nidal Hasan, a US Army psychiatrist who shot dead 13 people at a military base in 2009, the Pentagon said on Monday. Hasan’s execution for the attack at Fort Hood in Texas — which also wounded more than two dozen people — will be the first […]
Clashes erupt outside Kosovo parliament over war crimes court
Police clashed with demonstrators outside Kosovo’s parliament on Monday, as protesters demanded the passage of a bill that would curb the powers of the country’s war crimes court. The hours-long stand-off escalated on Monday night as demonstrators decried the sentencing of Kosovo’s former president, Hashim Thaci, who was last month sentenced to war crimes committed […]
Rubio arrives in Iceland to push for greater US presence in Arctic
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived in Iceland late Monday at the start of a three-nation European tour to push for greater US influence in the Arctic after Washington sealed a pact on Greenland. Rubio will meet with officials in Reykjavik “to discuss economic and security collaboration,” the US State Department said in a statement […]
Nigeria’s Tinubu confirms 32 dead after military plane crash
A Nigerian Air Force plane crashed on Monday in the country’s southwestern Ondo state, killing all 32 people on board, President Bola Tinubu said. It is one the worst air disasters in recent years in Africa’s most populous country. The passenger aircraft was on a “routine mission” from Benin City in southern Nigeria to the […]