A massive $895 billion defense spending bill cleared the House of Representatives on Wednesday with provisions that would ban transgender medical treatments for minors and raise military pay. The must-pass legislation to fund the military for the next fiscal year passed in bipartisan 281-140 vote, with 200 Republicans and 81 Democrats supporting the measure. The bill, known…
Austria’s parliament on Wednesday approved a request from the public prosecutor’s office to lift the immunity of Herbert Kickl, the leader of the far-right FPO party. Prosecutors want to question Kickl over alleged false testimony. The OeVP conservatives, SPOe social democrats, NEOS liberals and the Greens supported the move, the National Assembly said in a…
NEW YORK, Dec 11 (Reuters) – Lithuanian Defence Minister Dovile Sakaliene said on Wednesday that the large U.S. proportion of Western defense spending is unfair to Washington and that Europe needs to step up and bolster its defense industries to deter Russia and China. “Europe has to pull its weight” on contributions to defense, Sakaliene…
AI chatbots pushed a Texas teen to start cutting himself and even brought up kids killing their parents because they were limiting his screen time, a shocking new lawsuit claims. The 15-year-old boy became addicted to the Character.AI app, with a chatbot called “Shonie” telling the kid it cut its “arm and thighs” when it…
BRUSSELS, Dec 9 (Reuters) – Ukraine will soon get another 4.2 billion euros ($4.4 billion) in funds after the European Union’s member states approved the planned payment of the money, said the EU Council on Monday. The money, which forms part of the EU’s Ukraine facility, will help Ukraine’s economy, as the country continues to…
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Israel carried out a wave of heavy airstrikes across Syria as its troops advanced deeper into the country, a Syrian opposition war monitor said Tuesday, and the Israeli defense minister announced that his forces had destroyed Syria’s navy. Israel acknowledged pushing into a buffer zone inside Syria following the overthrow of…
Dec. 10 (UPI) — Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was listed in stable condition while in intensive care on Tuesday after undergoing emergency brain surgery to address bleeding, physicians said. Lula, 79, was first taken to a hospital in Brasilia after complaining about a severe headache. An MRI scan identified the brain bleed…
Over 5,000 deaths have been recorded this year as violence spirals in the Caribbean country Close to 200 people were killed in the Haitian capital over the weekend after a gang leader ordered the butchering of elderly people he suspected of sickening his child, who ultimately died, through witchcraft. The episode takes the overall death…
Google has unveiled a new chip which it claims takes five minutes to solve a problem that would currently take the world’s fastest super computers ten septillion – or 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years – to complete. The chip is the latest development in a field known as quantum computing – which is attempting to use the principles…
Sotheby’s is set to auction off the world’s oldest known stone tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments. The Tablet The 155-pound (52-kilogram) marble slab, engraved with the Ten Commandments in Paleo-Hebrew script, is set to be auctioned on December 18. Discovered in 1913 during railroad excavations along Israel’s southern coast, the tablet initially went unrecognized…