Thu 15 May 2025: US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he spoke with Apple CEO Tim Cook and told him not to expand his production facilities in India, but to do so in America. “I had a little problem with Tim Cook yesterday,” Trump said during his visit to Qatar. “I said to […]
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Thu 15 May 2025: Nearly half of all women-led organizations providing life-saving support in humanitarian crises are at risk of shutting down within six months due to sharp declines in international aid, UN Women warned Tuesday. The alarm comes as part of a new report based on a global survey of 411 women-led and women’s […]
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Thu 15 May 2025: Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok is under scrutiny for repeatedly referencing the “white genocide” in South Africa – a right-wing conspiracy theory – even in responses to unrelated queries. The chatbot, a product of Musk’s AI company xAI, told users it was “instructed by my creators” to accept the genocide “as […]
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Wed 14 May 2025: Turkiye has always placed a premium on its defence, initially buying then developing its own weapons. The owner of NATO’s second-largest standing army has also emerged as a notable weapons exporter, with some iconic products on the international market. Turkiye’s exports increased year on year to reach $7.1bn in 2024 – […]
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Wed 14 May 2025: The US presidency and the papacy came together on May 3 when Donald Trump posted an AI-generated photograph of himself dressed as the pope to Truth Social. The image was then shared by the White House’s accounts. Seated in an ornate (Mar-a-Lago-style) golden chair, he was wearing a white cassock and […]
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Wed 14 May 2025: Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is trained on enormous bodies of text, video and images to identify patterns. It then creates new texts, videos and images on the basis of this pattern identification. Thanks to machine learning, it improves its ability to do so every time it is used. As AI becomes […]
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Wed 14 May 2025: US president says ‘all sanctions’ on Damascus will be dropped, after talks with Saudi and Turkish leaders. United States President Donald Trump says Washington is considering the normalisation of ties with Damascus after he met Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa, the first such encounter between the two nations’ leaders in 25 years. […]
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Wed 14 May 2025: Global sales of electric vehicles (EV) are expected to exceed 20 million this year, accounting for more than 25% of all vehicles sold, according to a report by the International Energy Agency (IEA) on Wednesday. Global EV sales continue to grow despite uncertainties in the global economy and pressures on the […]
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Wed 14 May 2025: France’s president expressed support Tuesday for a ban on headscarves in sports competitions. “I stand by the Olympic Charter, which prohibits the wearing of all religious symbols in competitions,” Emmanuel Macron said during an interview with broadcaster TF1. He distinguished between practicing sports in facilities and participating in competitions, saying it […]
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Wed 14 May 2025: A fresh row over contested areas has erupted between India and China, with two sides issuing diverging statements. India on Wednesday rejected what it called “preposterous attempts” by China to rename places in the northeastern Arunachal Pradesh state. “We have noticed that China has persisted with its vain and preposterous attempts […]
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