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Iran’s security council official Mohsen Rezaei on Saturday hit back at US President Donald Trump’s claim that Tehran was approaching surrender, saying America would only “win in its imagination”. “You can win every day in your own imagination. But reality is shaped by Iran—by its people, its soldiers, and its missiles,” Rezaei told Trump. (via…
A car rammed into a crowd standing on a road to cheer on the Newcastle Knights rugby team north of Sydney on Saturday, injuring at least 10 people, Associated Press reported, citing Australian officials. Police said initial indications suggested the incident was not terrorism related. (Representative) New South Wales Ambulance officials said the incident occurred…
North Korea fired at least one ballistic missile toward the sea on Saturday, South Korea’s military said, extending a recent run of weapons tests during heightened tensions between the rivals over border land mine blasts that injured three South Korean soldiers. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said it detected the missile being launched from the…
PARIS, Oct 2 (Reuters) – World food prices rose in September to their highest in nearly four years as logistics disruptions and weather concerns affected crop markets, the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization said. Fears about a severe El Nino weather pattern have pushed international sugar prices to an 18-month high, while a war-related…
About 400 schools in France are expected to remain closed on Friday after student protests that began over education-related grievances escalated into violence in some places. Anti-riot police officers face protesting students carrying out blockading action outside the secondary school Le Corbusier, in Aubervilliers, northern Paris. (AFP) “There are a little over 400 schools and…
OpenAI said Thursday that it has fired 3 researchers for allegedly mishandling “sensitive information”. ChatGPT-maker OpenAI said Thursday that it has fired three researchers for allegedly mishandling “sensitive information” and violating company policies, including work that involved an external organization that evaluates artificial intelligence models. The San Francisco-based AI lab did not confirm their identities…
President Vladimir Putin on Thursday reiterated Moscow’s long-held position that Russia is not planning to attack European countries but will respond to aggression with “all weapons” in its arsenal. In remarks at a foreign policy forum, Putin accused the West and Europe of escalating tensions by talking about preparing for a war with Moscow in…
Derbyshire County Council’s Cllr Stephen Reed (Picture: Derbyshire County Council) A Reform UK-led council has cut ties with a journalist reporting on the area. Derbyshire County Council announced earlier this week that it has decided to ‘end engagement’ with DerbyshireLive Local Democracy Reporter Eddie Bisknell. Deputy Council leader Stephen Reed said the council had ‘lost…
VAST SPENDING on AI infrastructure has created a profit boom. In the past year American pre-tax corporate earnings have grown by $1.2trn, or 30%. Companies in the S&P 500 index are handily beating forecasts. And yet Uncle Sam is seeing little of the benefit. Taxes on corporate profits have collapsed (see chart 1). Government beancounters…
The US federal workforce has plunged to about 2.7 million employees under the Trump administration — the lowest level in 60 years, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The government has shed more than 300,000 workers since President Trump returned to office in January 2025, shrinking the federal workforce by about 11%, according to…