DOJ, FBI investigates Clinton Foundation alleged pay-to-play politics
LONDON/DUBAI, Dec 18 (Reuters) – Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have tightened their grip on the country’s oil industry and control up to half the exports that generate most of Tehran’s revenue and fund its proxies across the Middle East, according to Western officials, security sources and Iranian insiders. All aspects of the oil business have come…
North Korea launched over 200 rounds of artillery shells off its west coast toward South Korea’s Yeonpyeong island between 09:00 to 11:00 local time, said Seoul’s military, the BBC reports. South Korea responded by ordering civilians on the island to seek shelter and conducting live-fire drills as a countermeasure. Yeonpyeong island, home to a military…
Companies that specialise in artificial intelligence, such as OpenAI, are working to overcome unforeseen obstacles and delays in their quest for ever-larger language models by creating training methods that employ more human-like ways for algorithms to “think.” TakeAway Points: Artificial intelligence companies like OpenAI are seeking to overcome unexpected delays and challenges in the pursuit…
Daniel Noboa designates nearly two dozen gangs as terrorist groups after wave of violence across country Ecuador’s president, Daniel Noboa, said on Wednesday that his country was “at war” with drug gangs who are holding more than 130 prison staff hostage and who briefly captured a TV station live on air, in a wave of…
Protesters clashed with security forces across France on Monday as hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets for Labour Day to vent their anger against President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform. Unions had been hoping for a vast turnout across France for the May 1 protests to further rattle Macron, who has been greeted…
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish legislators scheduled a long-delayed vote Tuesday on Sweden’s bid to join NATO, in a step that could remove a major hurdle for the previously nonaligned Nordic country’s entry into the military alliance. Turkey, a NATO member, has been dragging its feet on ratifying Sweden’s accession for more than a year,…