A top Romanian court upholds the ban on far-right Georgescu’s presidential bid
A top Romanian court has rejected an appeal by far-right politician Calin Georgescu to lift a ban on his candidacy in the presidential rerun.
Day: March 12, 2025
British tourists on Ryanair flight ‘stranded in Spain after airport staff went home’
The plane travelling from Malaga to Manchester had to reroute because of a medical emergency on board.
Netflix’s Newest ‘American Manhunt’ Chronicles the Search to Bring Osama bin Laden to Justice
On May 2, 2011, teams of U.S. Navy SEALs landed in and around a compound in Abbottabad, deep inside Pakistan. Their mission that morning was to capture or kill the world’s most wanted terrorist, Osama bin Laden.
Court asked to intervene after email tells USAID workers to destroy classified documents
A union for U.S. Agency for International Development contractors is asking a federal judge to intervene in any destruction of USAID classified documents.
Law firm sues over Trump executive order that seeks to suspend security clearances
A law firm targeted by President Donald Trump over its legal services during the 2016 presidential campaign has sued the federal government over an executive order that seeks to strip its attorneys of security clearances.
Sam Altman says OpenAI trained an AI model that is good at creative writing and shares a short story it wrote; he’s “not sure yet how/when it will get released” (Sam Altman/@sama)
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Sam Altman says OpenAI trained an AI model that is good at creative writing and shares a short story it wrote; he’s “not sure yet how/when it will get released” — we trained a new model that is good at…
Italy and Libya’s murky migrant deals
Opposition groups in Italy are accusing the government of freeing the head of Libya’s judicial police because it relies on Libyan security forces to check the flow of African migrants crossing the Mediterranean. Osama Njeem was released despite being …
‘I visited all 54 countries in Africa – these were my top 5’
Drew Binsky, a content creator from the US whose main channel has more than 5 million followers says he has visited every country on the continent.
Ukraine ready for 30-day ceasefire deal as US declares ‘the ball is now in Russia’s court’
UKRAINE is ready to sign up to an immediate 30-day ceasefire deal, with the US declaring: “The ball is now in Russia’s court”.
The proposal, agreed after eight hours of talks, wil…
US Education Department to sack 1,300 workers as Trump vows to close agency
Department officials announced the cuts on Tuesday, raising questions about the agency’s ability to continue usual operations.