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Balázs Hankó, a former culture minister under Viktor Orbán, was ordered held in pretrial detention over allegations he funneled tens of millions in state cultural grants to political allies, marking...

The Canada Rocket Company gets serious about medium-lift launch.

Estonia ‌has banned the transit of Russian and Belarusian grain ​through its territory, ​Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna ⁠said on Thursday.

Three Liberian-flagged oil tankers were struck by unknown projectiles when ​transiting the Strait of Hormuz on ‌Tuesday, shipping intelligence service Marisks said.

Researchers say that using artificial-intelligence tools to visualize scientific images can become problematic when models misrepresent the underlying data.

Seven people were killed in the attack and emergency power cuts were imposed in Kyiv and three other regions.

Chinese refiners have suspended exports of oil products to regions beyond Hong Kong and Macau until further notice from Beijing, four people briefed on the matter said ​on Thursday, a move that will further tighten fuel markets.

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The overuse of certain names has revealed the scale of fake experts on academic publishing platforms, say researchers.

A Nigerian man accused of illegally creating a government agency, installing himself as its ‌boss and securing federal budget allocations for it was charged in court on Wednesday with forgery and impersonation, in a case that has exposed gaps in the checks governing the country's public institutions.

The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press

Donald Trump struggled to stay awake during the Oval Office press conference.

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Governor says regulators ‘cannot stand aside’ and assume AI industry will resolve the risks it presents to financial system stability

The US Court of International Trade ‌will hear a challenge on Wednesday to President Donald Trump's tariffs on goods from 60 trading partners he accuses of failing to prevent imports made with forced labor, a policy opponents say revives the ​unchecked tariff power the Supreme Court struck down in February.

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Around a third of trucks sold in China this year will run on electricity, furthering Beijing’s goal of bolstering energy security.

Oil prices rose on Wednesday after US President Donald Trump denied he would be willing to ‌ease sanctions on Iran while Qatar pushed for peace talks, after falling in the previous session on a recovery in crude supply from the Middle East.

International cooperation among banking supervisors is becoming more difficult just as financial risks grow more interconnected, the chair ​of the global banking rulemaker said on Wednesday.

Prime minister says ‘going all the way’ is an option as government reviews Britain’s relations with 27-country bloc

As aviation infrastructure suffers more cyberattacks, air traffic systems are the latest target, with a ransomware toolkit installed on at least one operational network.

Involving both the public and all parties in shaping reforms on how they vote will be crucial.

A US court has denied MTN’s bid to appeal a ruling in the Zobay case, sending two Anti-Terrorism Act lawsuits into discovery.

House Democrats could have subpoena authority to require transmission of the information in the next Congress.

Spain, Portugal and Luxembourg are calling on the European Union to set a 2040 renewable-energy target, as the bloc seeks to reduce its dependence on imported fuel.

Electric delivery bikes get a boost as petrol heads for R30/l. Kenya's ARC Ride says its R50 battery swaps undercut fuel by up to 30%.

Téhéran espère obtenir mardi une réponse officielle de Washington concernant ses propositions sur la réouverture du détroit d'Ormuz. L'Iran exige notamment un cessez-le-feu de sept jours dans tout le Moyen-Orient, le dégel de ses avoirs détenus à l'étranger et la levée des sanctions frappant son secteur pétrolier.

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The New York City Council issued a subpoena to Musk, requiring that he or another representative of SpaceXAI testify in an investigation concerning AI safety.

Aux États-Unis, une vidéo du président Donald Trump publiée une première fois en 2024 sur son réseau Truth Social et rediffusée ce week-end à la télévision pourrait enfreindre la loi fédérale.

Iran's embassy in ‌London on Monday rejected what it described as "unfounded and malicious ​speculations" linking Tehran to five ​British nationals who were arrested ⁠over the weekend near ​Britain's RAF Fairford airbase.

Campaign this year has included drone attacks, bombs and arson, leading to calls for a stronger response

Iran's armed forces are prepared for any ​renewed U.S. attacks, state media quoted ‌army spokesperson Mohammad Akraminia saying on Sunday, after US President Donald Trump said he rejected an ​Iranian proposal to reopen the Strait ​of Hormuz and end fighting.

Filmmaker Alex Gibney has shared the first trailer for 'Musk,' a two-part, four-hour deep dive into Elon Musk.

Russia has maintained plausible deniability in connection to each sabotage incident—but together, they add up to a pattern of low-level warfare to which European democracies must respond.

Thousands of Ukrainians are trapped in Kherson with “hellish conditions” by the Russian occupation forces. They must be saved.

Le président ukrainien a demandé samedi à Antonio Costa, président du Conseil européen, et à Ursula von der Leyen, présidente de la Commission européenne, d’adopter de nouvelles sanctions européennes contre la Russie.