By Kanishka Singh and Menna AlaaElDin WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. State Department said on Friday it was aware of the reported death of a U.S. citizen in the Israeli-occupied West Bank after reports emerged of Israeli settlers fatally beating a Palestinian American. Palestinian news agency WAFA, citing the local health ministry, said Saif al-Din Kamel…
The United States has accused Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek of aiding Beijing’s military and intelligence services, with a senior U.S. official claiming the company has also attempted to bypass export restrictions to acquire advanced American semiconductor technology. The allegations, disclosed in an interview withReuters, mark a significant escalation in Washington’s scrutiny of Chinese AI…
WASHINGTON — PRC is out. China is in. That is among the significant modifications to the U.S. State Department’s online fact sheet on China, which drops the country’s official name, the People’s Republic of China (PRC), in favor of just China. Former President Joe Biden’s administration routinely referenced the Beijing government with the PRC abbreviation….
An American-Iranian journalist is thought to have spent months in “cruel” detention in Iran, the U.S. government has said, as questions swirl over whether Iran will strike back at Israel and the anniversary of U.S. personnel being held for over a year in Tehran looms. Reza Valizadeh, who had worked for the U.S. government-backed, Persian-language…