Wed 25 June 2025: China on Wednesday criticized the “once renowned” US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for “violating the most basic tenets of spycraft” while hiring foreign citizens to engage in espionage activities, according to state-run media. In a statement, the Chinese Ministry of State Security accused the CIA of attempting to contain China by […]
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Wed 25 June 2025: Ruling sides against authors who alleged that Anthropic trained an AI model using their work without consent. A United States federal judge has ruled that the company Anthropic made “fair use” of the books it utilised to train artificial intelligence (AI) tools without the permission of the authors. The favourable ruling comes at […]
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Wed 25 June 2025: The death sentence has been removed from eight criminal offences in Vietnamese law and replaced with life imprisonment for offenders. Vietnam will end capital punishment for eight categories of serious crime – including embezzlement, attempts to overthrow the government and sabotaging state infrastructure, state media has reported. The state-run Vietnam News Agency reported […]
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Tue 24 June 2025: The Israeli occupation army announced Monday that a reserve soldier was moderately wounded in the northern Gaza Strip, bringing the total number of soldiers wounded to 6,000 since the beginning of the genocidal war on 7 October 2023. Israel Hayom newspaper quoted the Israeli army as saying that the Israeli reserve soldier […]
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Tue 24 June 2025: Dissenting justice warns court actions expose ‘thousands to the risk of torture or death’. A divided Supreme Court has allowed the administration of United States President Donald Trump to restart swift removals of migrants to countries other than their homeland, lifting a court order that requires they get a chance to […]
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Tue 24 June 2025: China on Tuesday said it will hold a major military parade in September to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, state news agency Xinhua reported. The parade to be held in Beijing’s Tian’anmen Square on Sep. 3, will not only showcase traditional main battle forces, but […]
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Tue 24 June 2025: A ceasefire between Israel and Iran came into effect at 0400GMT Tuesday following hours of intensified mutual hostilities. Iran’s IRGC said that a total of 11 retaliatory missiles were fired in five salvos on Israel in the hours leading up to the ceasefire. According to the Israeli emergency medical service (MDA), […]
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Mon 23 June 2025: The risk of genocide in Sudan‘s devastating civil war remains “very high”, amid ongoing ethnically motivated attacks by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, a top UN official warned Monday. Since April 2023, Sudan has been torn apart by a power struggle between army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan Daglo. The fighting […]
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Mon 23 June 2025: UK Health Secretary Wes Streeting on Monday announced a “rapid national investigation” into English maternity services after a string of scandals over 15 years. Streeting said he was ordering the probe having heard many “deeply painful stories of trauma, loss, and a lack of basic compassion — caused by failures in NHS (National […]
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Mon 23 June 2025: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday described strikes against Iran as an “ unprovoked aggression” without any justification. “The absolutely unprovoked aggression against Iran has no basis and no justification,” Putin said during a meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in Moscow. Israel and Iran have been engaged in aerial […]
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