Predictably, the backlash against China’s DeepSeek has begun in America. But the most outlandish criticism must be the one trying to distinguish “authoritarian AI” from “democratic AI”. Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, the main rival of OpenAI, wrote on his personal website: “[China is] an authoritarian government that has committed human rights violations, has behaved…
Jan 31, 2025 01:07 PM IST Israeli military strikes Hezbollah targets in Bekaa Valley and along Syrian-Lebanese border, targeting weapons development and arms smuggling facilities The Israeli military said on Friday it struck several Hezbollah targets overnight in the Bekaa Valley and along the Syrian-Lebanese border. This picture taken from a position in northern Israel…
JERUSALEM (Reuters) -The deaths of six Israeli hostages whose bodies were recovered from Gaza in August were probably linked to an Israeli airstrike against Hamas near where they were being held, the Israeli military said on Wednesday. “At the time of the strike, the military had no information, not even a suspicion, that the hostages…
By Maya Gebeily BEIRUT (Reuters) – Israel said on Thursday that its ceasefire with Hezbollah was breached hours after Lebanese security sources said Israeli tanks attacked six areas of southern Lebanon, calling into question a truce reached after more than a year of fighting. A ceasefire between Israel and the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah took…
Lebanon’s state media reported a slew of Israeli air strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs on Sunday, after the Israeli military posted evacuation calls online for parts of the Hezbollah bastion. AFPTV footage showed smoke billowing above the area on Sunday evening, following earlier raids in the afternoon. AFP journalists in the city and its outskirts…
JERUSALEM/BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon’s Hezbollah fired heavy rocket barrages at Israel on Sunday, with Israeli media reporting that a building had been hit near Tel Aviv, after a powerful Israeli airstrike killed at least 20 people in Beirut the day before. Israel also struck Beirut’s Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs, where intensified bombardment over the last two…
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem said on Wednesday that only developments on the battlefield, not political moves, would bring an end to the hostilities between the Lebanese armed group and the Israeli military. “I will tell you very clearly, our conviction is that only one thing can stop this war of aggression, and…
The Israeli military said on Monday it had killed a top Hezbollah commander it accused of overseeing rocket and anti-tank missile attacks against Israeli forces in southern Lebanon. Abu Ali Rida, the Hezbollah commander of the Baraachit area in southern Lebanon, was “eliminated” in an air strike, the military said, without specifying when he was…
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military said Sunday it has carried out a ground raid into Syria, seizing a Syrian citizen involved in Iranian networks. It was the first time in the current war that Israel announced its troops operated in Syrian territory. Israel has carried out airstrikes in Syria multiple times over the past…
The Israeli military conducted a wave of air strikes across Lebanon on Sunday, targeting branches of Al-Qard al-Hasan, a financial association associated with the militant group Hezbollah.The organisation was placed under US sanctions in 2007 and has been accused by American, Israeli, Saudi Arabian and other officials of operating as Hezbollah’s de facto banking arm.Inside…