MANILA, Philippines (AP) — China has failed to intimidate rival claimant states into surrendering their sovereign interests in the disputed South China Sea despite its intensifying “bullying tactics”…
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Brazilian demonstrators rally against Trump and urge taxing the rich
Thousands of demonstrators gathered in São Paulo on Thursday to protest against US President Donald Trump’s tariff threats and demand higher taxes on the super-rich.
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PKK fighters begin disarmament in northern Iraq
SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq (AP) — Fighters with a Kurdish separatist militant group that has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey began laying down their weapons in a symbolic ceremony on Friday in northern…
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Activist Narges Mohammadi reports threats of ‘elimination’ by Iran
Human rights activist Narges Mohammadi has been threatened with “physical elimination” by Iran, according to a statement from the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
Ms Mohammadi, an Iranian, was awarded the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize for work including…
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Threats, delays and confusion: 10 key points to understand another week of Trump tariff turmoil | Trump tariffs
Donald Trump ramped up his trade rhetoric this week, firing off more than 20 letters to governments outlining new tariff rates if agreements aren’t reached by 1 August.
In April, Trump announced a 10% base tariff rate and additional duties…
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Wife of Lufthansa’s CEO runs down and kills woman, 24, crossing a road in Sardinia as Italian cops open negligent homicide probe
The wife of Lufthansa’s CEO ran down and killed a…
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Elon Musk trained Grok on X users. It became a Hitler fan.
From the beginning, Elon Musk has marketed Grok, the chatbot integrated into X, as the unwoke AI that would give it to you straight, unlike the competitors.
But on X over the last year, Musk’s supporters have repeatedly complained of a problem:…
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