Mon 20 July 2026: Labour Party leader Andy Burnham has become the new British prime minister, Buckingham Palace confirmed Monday. Burnham arrived at Buckingham Palace just after Keir Starmer officially resigned as prime minister. During his meeting with King Charles III, Burnham was asked to form a new government. In his first speech as British […]
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Mon 20 July 2026: Walk into a shop, board a plane, log into your bank, or scroll through your social media feed, and chances are you might be asked to scan your face. Facial recognition and other kinds of face-based biometric technology are becoming an increasingly common form of identification. The technology is promoted as […]
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Mon 20 July 2026: Council of Europe Secretary General Alain Berset issued a statement Sunday ahead of the 2026 World Cup final, raising questions about FIFA’s practices during the tournament. “A sanction suspended under pressure, within days, with no reasons given. The authority of referees called into question. Racist abuse of players, some of it […]
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Mon 20 July 2026: China’s humanoid robotics sector is advancing rapidly and gaining an edge in key parts of the embodied artificial intelligence (AI) value chain, industry leaders said at the World AI Conference in Shanghai on Saturday. Humanoid robots demonstrated their capabilities on the second day of the conference, climbing tall walls and performing […]
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Sun 19 July 2026: Three AI-generated videos containing highly objectionable visuals of Makkah and Madinah, the two holiest sites for Muslims worldwide, have surfaced on social media platforms, primarily Instagram. The videos were posted on Friday (July 17), from the Instagram profile of Rohit Kumar, a resident of Akhtiyarpur Manjhauli village in Patna. The videos […]
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Sun 19 July 2026: The Governor of the Central Bank of Libya, Naji Mohammed Issa, and the Governor of the People’s Bank of China, Pan Gongsheng, agreed Saturday to connect Libyan commercial banks to China’s payment and settlement system. In a statement on its website, the Central Bank of Libya said Issa, who is visiting […]
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Sun 19 July 2026: Controversial social media figures Andrew Tate and his brother, Tristan, were arrested in the US on Saturday after British prosecutors filed new rape and sex-trafficking charges against them, ABC News reported, citing American and British officials. The US Marshals Service confirmed to ABC News that the brothers had been taken into […]
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Sun 19 July 2026: Yemen’s internationally recognized government said Sunday that it had prevented an Iranian aircraft from completing its flight to Sanaa International Airport, which is under the control of the Houthi group. “No flights will be allowed to operate without obtaining the required authorizations from the internationally recognized government,” Transport Minister Mohsen Al-Amri […]
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Sun 19 July 2026: The United Kingdom has proposed an overnight social media curfew for older teenagers as part of the government’s latest push to protect minors from digital harm, though users will be permitted to bypass the restrictions. The Labour administration announced the plans on Wednesday, outlining a six-hour default lockout from midnight to […]
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Sat 18 July 2026: Kenya’s official presidential website was hacked on Saturday, with attackers replacing its homepage with a message targeting President William Ruto and demanding a ransom of five Bitcoins. The breach affected the official presidency website, president.go.ke, where the hackers posted a cryptocurrency wallet address and warned that unspecified information would be released […]
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