White House says US President Trump and special envoy Witkoff ‘negotiated an exchange’. Russia has released Marc Fogel, an American teacher that Washington deemed to be wrongfully detained, after three and a half years in prison, the White House has announced. Fogel, 63, had been detained in Russia since August 2021 after being handed a […]
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel warned Hamas on Tuesday that if hostages were not released by noon on Saturday, the cease-fire in the war in the Gaza Strip would end and Israeli troops would resume “intense fighting.” Mr. Netanyahu said that Hamas’s threat on Monday to postpone the next round of hostage releases amounted
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Europe to cut red tape to make artificial intelligence advancements easier. The Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris has drawn nearly 100 world leaders and tech firms, and the consensus is that 2025 is not the year for new AI regulations. France says it is time to simplify the rules in Europe to allow AI
How can African art be reclaimed and re-defined so that African voices are amplified? Like in many other fields, people from the continent have been overlooked or underrepresented in the art world. So how can that change? In this episode of Now You Know, we chat with Adora Mba from ADA Contemporary Art Gallery in
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President Trump has vowed to end the fighting in Ukraine. Just how he could do that remains unclear, given that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia believes he is winning. But in his own blunt way, Mr. Trump has opened up the possibility of some kind of negotiations for a cease-fire. If a deal was
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President Trump said on Monday that he could cut aid to Jordan and Egypt if they refused his demand to permanently take in most Palestinians from Gaza, substantially increasing the pressure on key allies in the region to back his audacious proposal to relocate the entire population of the territory in order to redevelop it.
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Musk’s bid could ratchet up longstanding tensions with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman over the future of the startup. A consortium led by Elon Musk said it has offered $97.4bn to buy the nonprofit that controls OpenAI, months after the billionaire sued the artificial intelligence startup to block it from transitioning to a for-profit firm. Musk’s
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Economist Joseph Gagnon argues that tariffs and the shuttering of USAID won’t resolve the US national deficit. Though cost cuts pursued by US President Donald Trump may be popular among many Americans, economists differ in their assessment of these measures’ potential outcomes. Peterson Institute for International Economics senior fellow Joseph Gagnon tells host Steve Clemons
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Three more earthquakes have occurred near the Greek island of Santorini. Residents of neighbouring Amorgos are remaining on high alert after Monday’s tremors, which followed a moderate 5.0 magnitude earthquake between the islands on Sunday evening. The area has been rocked by seismic activity for the last two weeks, and experts have not ruled out
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Streets strewn with rubble and piles of ruins where their homes once stood. This is what displaced residents are confronted with upon returning to their town of Tal Rifaat in northern Syria, a crucial battleground in the conflict between Syrian Kurdish fighters and Turkish armed groups. During Syria’s war, Tal Rifaat became part of the
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