Mystery Disease In Congo Kills More Than 50 People, WHO On Alert
Symptoms of the illness include fever, vomiting, and internal bleeding, with most patients dying within 48 hours of onset.
Day: February 26, 2025
State of emergency declared after power cut chaos in Chile
A power outage plunged much of Chile into darkness on Tuesday, prompting authorities to declare a state of emergency.
Russia detains film critic Ekaterina Barabash in Moscow
Barabash is the daughter of late literary scholar Yuriy Barabash
Starmer refuses to rule out defence budget being used to fund Chagos Islands deal – as it happened
This blog is now closed, you can read more of our UK political coverage herePMQs is about to start.Here is the list of MPs down to ask a question.The threat from the far right is real, but that leaves me all the more convinced that working together is …
Australian radio DJ taken off air after ‘disgusting’ comments about women’s football
An Australian radio presenter has been taken off air after his comments about the country’s women’s football team.
Aston Martin delays first battery electric vehicle again and plans job cuts
Sportscar maker says priority is plug-in hybrids, while cutting costs will reduce global workforce by 5%The British sportscar maker Aston Martin has further delayed its first battery electric vehicle, as it announced plans to cut 170 jobs – 5% of its g…
Trump says Zelenskyy to visit U.S. to sign critical rare minerals deal on Friday
Ukraine and the United States have prepared a draft deal over access to Kyiv’s deposits of rare earth minerals, officials said Wednesday.
Q&A with Jürgen Schmidhuber, the controversial AI pioneer and director of AI at Saudi Arabia’s KAUST, on the kingdom’s AI ambitions, DeepSeek, AGI, and more (Anup Kaphle/Rest of World)
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Q&A with Jürgen Schmidhuber, the controversial AI pioneer and director of AI at Saudi Arabia’s KAUST, on the kingdom’s AI ambitions, DeepSeek, AGI, and more — With a long track record of groundb…
Rejecting Trump’s Call to Annex Their Nation, Canadians Rally Around the Flag
While Canadians are not generally known for flag waving, President Trump’s threats have led to a surge in flag sales and buffed up the national symbol’s image.
Trump’s New Crackdown on China Is Just Beginning
The administration is positioning itself to clamp down on Chinese investment and access to technology. But the wild card may be the president himself.