The World Health Organization (WHO) has voiced concerns about the spread of H5N1 bird flu, which is increasingly infecting non-avian species and thus upping the risk of transmission to humans, for whom the mortality rate is “extraordinarily high”. "This remains, I think, an enormous concern," the...
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Former President Trump is holding court with world leaders as foreign governments brace for the possibility of a second Trump administration, which would bring with it a major shift in U.S. foreign policy. Trump met Wednesday at Trump Tower with Polish President Andrzej Duda, following meetings in...
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An unclaimed aerial attack in central Iran on Friday comes fresh on the heels of tit-for-tat Iranian and Israeli strikes earlier this month, marking a potentially dangerous escalation of the Middle East conflict. Israel carried out the strike inside Iran Friday morning, a US official told CNN....
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Apple has removed WhatAapp and Threads from its app store in China, following an order from the country’s internet watchdog which cited national security concerns. “We are obligated to follow the laws in the countries where we operate, even when we disagree,” an Apple spokesperson told CNN on...
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Google has fired 28 employees following a sit-down protest over the tech giant’s contract to provide cloud computing and artificial intelligence services to the Israeli government The terminations come after the group No Tech for Apartheid on Tuesday occupied Google offices in California and New...
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A Polish man has been charged over claims he assisted an alleged Russian plot to assassinate Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, according to authorities in Poland and Ukraine. Polish authorities allege the man, named as Paweł K, was tasked “to help, among other things, in planning by Russian...
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