Russia launched 479 drones at Ukraine in the biggest overnight drone bombardment of the three-year war, the Ukrainian air force said Monday, as the Kremlin presses its summer offensive against the backdrop of direct peace talks. As well as drones, 20 missiles of various types were fired at different parts of Ukraine, according to the … Read more
President Donald Trump’s new ban on travel to the U.S. by citizens from 12 mainly African and Middle Eastern countries took effect Monday amid rising tension over the president’s escalating campaign of immigration enforcement. The new proclamation, which Trump signed last week, applies to citizens of Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, … Read more
Warner Bros. Discovery plans to split into two public companies by next year, the media giant announced Monday, the latest upheaval in the industry as consumers transition from cable to streaming. WBD will separate into a streaming and studios company, which will include its movie properties and streaming service HBO Max, and a global networks … Read more
Warner Bros. Discovery, the parent company of HBO Max, CNN and TNT, announced Monday it would split into two companies, the latest move by a major media conglomerate to reckon with a fracturing audience landscape. The split will see one company house Warner’s studios and streaming units, which include HBO Max, the DC Comics universe, … Read more
The 22-year-old activist took to social media to state she was ‘kidnapped’ after the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) said the Madleen vessel was intercepted early today Greta Thunberg has claimed she was ‘kidnapped’(Image: @GazaFFlotilla) Greta Thunberg’s Gaza aid vessel has been stopped before landing in Israel, with the activist claiming she was “kidnapped” and calling … Read more
NATO members need to increase their air and missile defences by 400 per cent to counter the threat from Russia, the head of the military alliance plans to say on Monday. Secretary-General Mark Rutte will say during a visit to London that NATO must take a “quantum leap in our collective defence” to face growing … Read more
The Norges Bank, Norway’s central bank, in Oslo, Norway, on Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images The world’s largest sovereign wealth fund will this week tell the European Union that “better and simpler regulation” is key to the markets reforms it urgently needs. “European markets over time have fallen behind in … Read more
California Gov. Gavin Newsom threatens to sue the Trump administration. Israel intercepts a Gaza-bound aid ship with Greta Thunberg aboard. And residents of a San Diego neighborhood say they live in fear after a fiery jet crash. Here’s what to know today. Gov. Gavin Newsom blasts Trump administration’s deployment of National Guard in Los Angeles … Read more
The Megiddo Mosaic, discovered by an inmate at Megiddo prison in northern Israel, has been hailed as “the greatest discovery since the Dead Sea Scrolls” by experts The text has been translated(Image: museumofthebible.org) An ancient inscription hailed as “the greatest discovery since the Dead Sea Scrolls” has been uncovered beneath an Israeli prison floor, naming … Read more
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says artificial intelligence is the “great equalizer” because it lets anyone program using everyday language. Speaking at London Tech Week on Monday, Huang said that, historically, computing was hard and not available to everyone. “We had to learn programming languages. We had to architect it. We had to design these computers … Read more