One day in May, Sergio Gor, President Trump’s special envoy for South Asia, appeared at the base camp of Mount Everest. Dressed in a black jacket emblazoned with “Trump Force One,” Gor sang the praises of the drone displayed next to him. An operator uses a heavy-lift drone to clear trash from the Everest base…
MIAMI (AP) — Genevieve became a Category 5 hurricane early Monday, the first in the East Pacific region in two years, forecasters said. It is expected to stay far out to sea on a course roughly parallel with the Mexico coast. Genevieve had maximum sustained winds of 160 mph (260 kph), according to the National…
By Nayera Abdallah and Elwely Elwelly DUBAI, July 27 (Reuters) – Iran said on Monday it was still in control of the Strait of Hormuz and not seeking to resume peace talks with the United States, after President Donald Trump halted a two-week bombing campaign that his top brass told him had run its course. …
MOSCOW, July 27 (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Monday that it had not seen any specific information regarding new proposals for a peace settlement in Ukraine ahead of a meeting in Washington between U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Trump and Zelenskiy are due to hold talks in Washington on Tuesday….
As russia prepared to invade Ukraine in 2022, American and British intelligence agencies sounded the alarm. Yet some of their European counterparts were unconvinced. Among the sceptics was Sweden’s military-intelligence service, known as must, which had long prided itself on its expert knowledge of Russia’s armed forces. Along with spy chiefs in France and Germany,…
What a difference two years makes. Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D., Wash.), in red, with members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus at the U.S. Capitol. More than 100 House Democrats voted for an amendment this month that sought to cut off military financing for Israel. The vote, which failed, was seen as a key barometer of…
In the past six weeks, America’s most protected artificial-intelligence model, Anthropic’s Fable 5, was jailbroken on release, temporarily switched off by a letter from the Trump administration, and dethroned on leader boards by a Chinese model, Kimi K3. Moonshot AI, K3’s maker, released the powerful model in mid-July; K3’s “weights”—the trillions of numbers that store…
On a recent morning in Tucson, Wayne Zhang pulled his car around the back of a church. His 92-year-old father, Youde, who has dementia, sat beside him. They parked alongside a row of saguaro cacti and palo verde trees as volunteers from the Interfaith Community Services food bank loaded boxes of tuna, peanut butter and…
A homemade bomb detonated near the entrance of the Philippine justice ministry early on Monday, officials said, hours before a suspected unexploded device was found near the country’s Senate. Regional police spokeswoman Hazel Asilo declined to estimate the size of the explosion the device could have produced. (Representative Image/ Unsplash) The explosion just after midnight,…
Elvira Menéndez knows how lucky she is that her house is not a charred ruin like so many others in Spain and France devastated by deadly wildfires. The wildfires have significantly shifted the mood in the country, where just a week ago huge crowds of people took to the streets to celebrate their second FIFA…