Rishi Sunak has announced a collaboration between the UK, Italy and Japan to develop a new fighter jet that uses artificial intelligence. The prime minister says the joint venture aims to create thousands of UK jobs and strengthen security ties. The nations will develop a next generation fighter – due to enter service in the…
Greetings from Tyler, Everybody’s concerned about the drones. You mean our military command can’t figure it out? People who should know claim to be baffled. We can come up with explanations, but none quite satisfy. For now, unbelievably, the government is playing dumb. It must be something we’re not supposed to know. I can’t wait…
Investing.com – The European Central Bank cut interest rates at its meeting on Thursday, as widely expected, and signaled the likelihood of further easing in 2025 as the eurozone’s economy is struggling and inflation is nearly back at target. The ECB cut its benchmark deposit rate by 25 basis points to 3.0%, while the interest…
A judge was shot dead Wednesday in Mexico’s once-thriving beach city of Acapulco, local media and the state prosecutor’s office said. Local press identified the slain judge as Edmundo Roman Pinzon, president of the Superior Court of Justice in Guerrero state, saying he was shot at least four times in his car outside an Acapulco…
Syrian insurgents toppled President Bashar al-Assad’s on Sunday after a stunning, two-week offensive that saw major cities slip from the regime’s fingers one by one, until rebel forces captured the capital Damascus almost without a fight. More than 50 years of Assad family rule in Syria collapsed with astonishing speed after insurgents burst out of a rebel-held enclave in…
Germany’s eastern state of Thuringia elected a new premier on Thursday, after months of delicate negotiations ensured the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) could be left out of government despite winning elections in September. Mario Voigt from the conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) is set to govern in an unprecedented coalition with the centre-left Social Democrats…
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…