ATHENS (Reuters) -Greece has arrested three people linked with a cargo ship seized by Spanish authorities off the Canary Islands in 2023 for carrying more than 4.5 tons of cocaine from Latin America to Europe, three people close to the investigation said on Thursday. The then Greek-operated, Togo-flagged vessel Blume, which had left from Brazil,…
CNN — A huge fire has torn through a commercial building in Iraq’s eastern city of Kut, killing dozens of people, local authorities said Thursday. About 50 men, women and children died in the overnight blaze, according to Wasit regional governor Mohammed Jameel Al-Mayahi. Local media reports identified the location as the Kut Hypermarket mall….
William Brangham: Also today, Gazans mourned the lives lost in the latest round of Israeli airstrikes. Health authorities say at least 54 people were killed across the territory, including more than a dozen children. Israel says it targets only Hamas fighters and blames them for operating in residential areas. Meantime, in Israel, a second vital…
Syria’s interim president has condemned Israel for “wide-scale targeting of civilian and government facilities” after the Israeli military struck Damascus on Wednesday as it sought to intervene in clashes between the Syrian army and Druze fighters. Israel’s strikes would have pushed “matters to a large-scale escalation, except for the effective intervention of American, Arab, and…
(Bloomberg) — Nvidia Corp. boss Jensen Huang lauded DeepSeek and China’s other contributions to AI research as he met with political and tech leaders in Beijing. Most Read from Bloomberg Huang said open-source Chinese AI models were helping the rest of the world during a fireside chat with Wang Jian, a former Alibaba Group executive…
(Reuters) -The European Commission has stalled one of its investigations into Elon Musk‘s social media platform X for breaching its digital transparency rules while it seeks to conclude trade talks with the U.S., the Financial Times reported on Thursday. The Commission will miss the deadline for finalising its investigation into X, which was expected to…
MINOT, N.D. (AP) — The Richardson’s ground squirrel weighs less than a pound, is about a foot long and is native to the northern Plains. The little creature also is a ferocious tunneler, and it’s exasperating the people of Minot, North Dakota, where it’s burrowing everywhere from vacant lots to the middle of town, and…
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By David Shepardson and Dan Catchpole (Reuters) -A cockpit recording of dialogue between the two pilots of the Air India flight that crashed last month indicates the captain cut the flow of fuel to the plane’s engines, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. The newspaper cited people familiar with U.S. officials’ early assessment of…
Jul. 16—ROCHESTER — A 53-year-old man who as a teen committed one of the most heinous crimes ever seen in Rochester will be transitioned from a state prison to a halfway house for work release later this month. David Brom, then a 16-year-old high school sophomore, took an ax in the middle of the night…