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Everyone Is Freaking Out About OpenAI and Anthropics Race for Dominance

Everyone Is Freaking Out About OpenAI and Anthropics Race for Dominance **AI Development Accelerates Amidst Growing Concerns Over Control and Pace** The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) is sparking both excitement and apprehension across the technology landscape. As leading... read more »

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Spains Ceuta declares emergency over surge in migrant arrivals

Spains Ceuta declares emergency over surge in migrant arrivals ### Ceuta Grapples with Unprecedented Influx of Migrants, Declares State of Emergency **Ceuta, Spain –** The Spanish autonomous city of Ceuta, situated on the northern coast of Africa, has declared a state of emergency following an... read more »

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ABC News says FCC is carrying out intimidation campaign to shape coverage

ABC News says FCC is carrying out intimidation campaign to shape coverage ### FCC Under Scrutiny Amid Allegations of Politically Motivated Enforcement **Washington D.C.** – The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is facing increasing scrutiny over its regulatory actions, with allegations... read more »

UN demands end of Ugandan clampdown on d...

UN demands end of Ugandan clampdown on dissent

UN demands end of Ugandan clampdown on dissent ## UN Voices Grave Concern Over Widening Crackdown on Dissent in Uganda **GENEVA –** The United Nations has issued a stark warning regarding a deteriorating human rights situation in Uganda, expressing deep alarm over what it describes as a pervasive... read more »

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Manmohan Singh’s letter to me does not address Tamil issue: President Rajapaksa

Sri Lanka’s Rajapaksa regime losing its grip

Delhi: Casino mogul James Packer must wish he could vote in Sri Lanka’s presidential elections next Thursday. Not only is the main challenger Maithripala Sirisena threatening incumbent... read more »

Chinese react to stampede deaths: Thought this hap...

China on Friday mourned the 36 dead from New Year festivities at its financial capital Shanghai, as the city government revealed the victims of the... read more »

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An explosion at an auto-parts factory in southern China’s Guangdong province killed 17 people and injured 20 others, the official Xinhua News Agency... read more »

Chinese man jailed for 13 years for eating tigers

BEIJING – A Chinese man has been jailed for 13 years for buying and eating endangered tigers and making wine made out of their blood, state media... read more »

Father of pilot captured by ISIS pleads for release

AMMAN (Jordan): The father of a Jordanian pilot captured by Islamic State militants in Syria has pleaded for his son’s release. Safi Yousef al-Kaseasbeh,... read more »

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John Kerry lands in Baghdad to press Iraqi leaders as insurgency ...

BAGHDAD: US secretary of state John Kerry landed in Baghdad on Monday to press Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to form a more inclusive government in response to a Sunni insurgency that has swept much... read more »

Israel kills Palestinian teen in escalating West B...

HEBRON, West Bank: Israeli troops killed a Palestinian teenager in the occupied West Bank on Friday and arrested 25 people, pursuing a weeklong... read more »

Militants launch attack on north Baghdad

BAGHDAD: Iraqi officials say militants have launched an attack on a Sunni-dominated city north of Baghdad, killing seven members of the security forces and... read more »

Iraq attacks and shelling kill 35

BAGHDAD: Violence across Iraq, including shelling of the conflict-hit city of Fallujah, killed 35 people today, as politicians haggle over forming a new... read more »

Nine Boko Haram fighters killed in Nigeria

ABUJA: The Nigerian military Monday confirmed it killed nine Boko Haram fighters in the northeastern Borno state. “Patrol troops have successfully... read more »

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Afghanistan grand assembly opens to discuss pact with US

Afghanistan grand assembly opens to discuss pact with US

Kabul – Afghanistan’s traditional Loya Jirga or grand assembly of tribal chieftains, notable people and government functionaries opened here Thursday to discuss the security pact known as... read more »

Six killed in US drone strike in Pakistan

Six killed in US drone strike in Pakistan

Islamabad – At least six people were killed when US drones fired missiles at! a seminary in Pakistan’s northwest Hangu district Thursday... read more »

Prachanda loses key election in Kathmandu

Prachanda to visit India to meet ailing daughter

Kathmandu – Pushpa Kamal Dahal aka Prachanda, former prime minister and chairman of the once-powerful Unified Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (UCPN-M),... read more »

NC, UML lead in Nepal polls, Maoists lag far behind

NC, UML lead in Nepal polls, Maoists lag far behind

Kathmandu – Initial results of Nepal’s second Constituent Assembly elections indicate that the country’s traditional political forces like... read more »

Prachanda loses in Nepal Constituent Assembly election

Prachanda loses in Nepal Constituent Assembly election

The leader of Nepal’s Maoist party, who appears to have lost in this week’s national election, demanded on Thursday that the vote counting be stopped... read more »

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Berlin summons British ambassador over spying report

Berlin summons British ambassador over spying report

Berlin – German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle Tuesday summoned the British ambassador over claims of spying by the British embassy here. German officials told ambassador Simon McDonald... read more »

UK cabinet banned from using iPads in `sensitive` meetings over `bugging` fears

UK cabinet banned from using iPads in `sensitive` ...

London – British cabinet ministers have reportedly been banned from using iPads during top government meetings over fears that Chinese,... read more »

Five arrested over French journalists’ slayings i...

Five arrested over French journalists' slayings in Mali

Bamako – Police have arrested five people in northern Mali for the murder of two French journalists, Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon, France’s... read more »

UK to scrap `paid-visa` rule for `high-risk` Indians

UK to scrap `paid-visa` rule for `high-risk` Indians

Tokyo – The UK is reportedly planning to scrap the recommendation of demanding cash bond of 4,800 dollars from visitors belonging to six ‘high-risk’... read more »

World War II bomb defused in German city

World War II bomb defused in German city

Berlin – Bomb experts defused a 1,800-kg bomb from World War II Sunday in the western German city of Dortmund after officials evacuated 20,000... read more »

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Modest relief for Iran if it halts activity: Obama

Modest relief for Iran if it halts activity: Obama

Washington – President Barack Obama has said that if Iran halts advances and reverses parts of its nuclear program, the United States would offer “modest relief” to ease the... read more »

Republican New Jersey Governor Chris Christie wins re-election

Republican New Jersey Governor Chris Christie wins...

Washington – New Jersey Governor Chris Christie won re-election by a crushing margin on Tuesday, a victory seen boosting his widely expected... read more »

Merkel insists German-U.S. ties should not be put at ri...

Merkel insists German-U.S. ties should not be put at risk

BERLIN – German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday stressed the importance of the German-U.S. alliance, adding that an ongoing debate on whether to grant... read more »

Multiple gun fired outside Garden State Plaza in New Je...

Multiple gun fired outside Garden State Plaza in New Jersey shopping centre .

A shopping centre in the US state of New Jersey has been evacuated after multiple shots were heard, with some people locked down inside stores. Some witnesses... read more »

US to continue support Egypt’s regime: Kerry

US to continue support Egypt's regime: Kerry

Cairo – US Secretary of State John Kerry, during his first visit to Egypt since the ouster of former president Mohamed Morsi, confirmed Sunday that his... read more »

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