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UK arrests 5 men in connection with incident near air base used by US

LONDON | UK police say they arrested five men in connection with an incident near a Royal Air Force base used by US bombers. Assistant Chief Constable Richard Ocone said police got a call about 12:45 a.m. regarding three suspicious vehicles near RAF Fairford. He said the men have been taken into custody and that […]

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Anthropic and OpenAI sound the alarm on AI safety — and seek to shape how it’s controlled

SAN FRANCISCO | As tech titans warned an AI-weary world that their own advanced systems could endanger humanity, the question emerged: What do they have to gain? The answer may lie in the companies’ efforts to score political goals ahead of the U.S. midterm elections and the money top artificial intelligence labs and their investors […]

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Yemen’s civil war returns and overwhelms hospitals with ‘a very dangerous situation’

ADEN, Yemen | Tarek al-Salami, aged 7, sat in a diaper, looking frail. Normally, the malnutrition and diarrhea that weakened his tiny frame would have been treated within a few days, but nothing is normal in Yemen anymore. Tarek’s father carried him on foot from the southwestern city of Mokha as Iran-backed rebels swept in […]

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Residents of largest city in northern Ethiopia express fear after eruption of fighting

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia | Residents of the largest city in northern Ethiopia said they were living in fear as fighting resumes between federal troops and rebels opposed to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, with many reportedly trying to flee to other provinces to escape the violence. Some told The Associated Press that internet service was disrupted […]

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Palestinian death toll in Gaza war rises above 74,000 since the war began and other Mideast news

The Palestinian death toll from the nearly three-year Israel-Hamas war has surpassed 74,000, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. While a ceasefire that took effect last Oct. 10 has halted the heaviest fighting, Israeli strikes have continued in what the military has said are responses to threats or attacks. Meanwhile, the World Health Organization said that […]

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Pope warns a ‘paradise of machines’ could undermine humanity as he opens France trip

PARIS | Pope Leo XIV warned Friday that a “paradise of machines” risked undermining humanity as he opened a trip to France by posing fundamental questions about what it means to be human in the age of artificial intelligence, a nuclear arms race and other threats to life itself. Leo raised existential concerns about scientific […]

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Why Yemen’s Houthis have only grown stronger through years of war

At various times over the last decade, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the United States, Britain and Israel have carried out punishing air raids on Yemen’s Houthi rebels — only to see them grow even stronger. Now, as the Iran-backed Houthis advance on a key maritime chokepoint and strike Saudi oil facilities, rattling world […]