Houthis hit Saudi base amid renewed fighting with Yemen government forces
Houthi fighters on Sunday said they used drones and missiles to attack a military base in southern Saudi Arabia as renew
ed fighting with Yemen’s government forces forced growing numbers of civilians to flee. The attack at the southern Sharurah base targeted “weapons depots and command and control centres that are manag...
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Houthi fighters on Sunday said they used drones and missiles to attack a military base in southern Saudi Arabia as renew
ed fighting with Yemen’s government forces forced growing numbers of civilians to flee. The attack at the southern Sharurah base targeted “weapons depots and command and control centres that are manag...
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J.D. Vance group courted Brazil’s Flavio Bolsonaro over anti-China rare earth deal: report
A campaign document belonging to Flavio Bolsonaro, the right-wing front-runner in the presidential election to be held i
n Brazil next month, offered Washington a rare earths supply chain designed to weaken China’s grip, local news site Amado Mundo reported on Saturday. Written in English and dated March 19, the 22-page...
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A campaign document belonging to Flavio Bolsonaro, the right-wing front-runner in the presidential election to be held i
n Brazil next month, offered Washington a rare earths supply chain designed to weaken China’s grip, local news site Amado Mundo reported on Saturday. Written in English and dated March 19, the 22-page...
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Celine Dion makes long-awaited return to stage in Paris
Celine Dion wept tears of joy on Saturday as she fulfilled her dream of returning to the stage after years battling a ra
re neurological disorder, with a sell-out concert in Paris. The 58-year-old French-Canadian singer appeared visibly moved as she opened her first full concert in six years with her 1990s French-langua...
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Celine Dion wept tears of joy on Saturday as she fulfilled her dream of returning to the stage after years battling a ra
re neurological disorder, with a sell-out concert in Paris. The 58-year-old French-Canadian singer appeared visibly moved as she opened her first full concert in six years with her 1990s French-langua...
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‘Woman Unknown’ wins Gold Lion at Venice Film Festival
Danish filmmaker May el-Toukhy’s post-war drama Woman Unknown won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival on Saturd
ay, with its star Mathilde Arcel also taking best actress honours in a rare double victory. El-Toukhy was the only woman directing a feature film in the main, 21-strong film line-up, a disparity that ...
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Danish filmmaker May el-Toukhy’s post-war drama Woman Unknown won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival on Saturd
ay, with its star Mathilde Arcel also taking best actress honours in a rare double victory. El-Toukhy was the only woman directing a feature film in the main, 21-strong film line-up, a disparity that ...
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Anthropic boss calls for AI slowdown after researcher’s superintelligence warning
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Saturday called on artificial intelligence firms to slow down the development of the power
ful technology, amid mounting worries over the risks of “superintelligent” computer systems. His comments came a few days after AI researcher Jacob Coxon, who left OpenAI to join Anthropic, decided to...
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Saturday called on artificial intelligence firms to slow down the development of the power
ful technology, amid mounting worries over the risks of “superintelligent” computer systems. His comments came a few days after AI researcher Jacob Coxon, who left OpenAI to join Anthropic, decided to...
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Bulgaria probes explosion at weapon storage site
Bulgaria is investigating the cause of a fire at a weapons storage facility operated by EMCO, including the possibility
of sabotage and a link to a previous blaze at another of the company’s facilities in August, the interior minister said. No injuries were reported in the fire, which broke out near the village of Tsa...
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Bulgaria is investigating the cause of a fire at a weapons storage facility operated by EMCO, including the possibility
of sabotage and a link to a previous blaze at another of the company’s facilities in August, the interior minister said. No injuries were reported in the fire, which broke out near the village of Tsa...
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39 pupils and staff fall ill after eating school lunches in Sha Tin
Hong Kong health authorities are investigating an outbreak of suspected food poisoning that hit 39 pupils and staff memb
ers who ate lunch at a Sha Tin school earlier this week. Twenty-three boys and 14 girls, aged between five and 11, from Baptist (Sha Tin Wai) Lui Ming Choi Primary School and two employees, aged 34 an...
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Hong Kong health authorities are investigating an outbreak of suspected food poisoning that hit 39 pupils and staff memb
ers who ate lunch at a Sha Tin school earlier this week. Twenty-three boys and 14 girls, aged between five and 11, from Baptist (Sha Tin Wai) Lui Ming Choi Primary School and two employees, aged 34 an...
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Farage’s Reform UK gets second record £36 million donation in 48 hours
Cryptocurrency billionaire Christopher Harborne said on Saturday he had donated £36 million (US$49 million) to Britain’s
anti-immigration Reform UK, matching an already record contribution to Nigel Farage’s party a day earlier as it prepares for the next election. The donation gives the veteran Brexit campaigner’s part...
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Cryptocurrency billionaire Christopher Harborne said on Saturday he had donated £36 million (US$49 million) to Britain’s
anti-immigration Reform UK, matching an already record contribution to Nigel Farage’s party a day earlier as it prepares for the next election. The donation gives the veteran Brexit campaigner’s part...
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Quality concerns prompt further tests on concrete used in 3 public housing blocks
The quality of concrete used in three blocks of a public housing estate under construction in Tung Chung requires furthe
r testing and review, Hong Kong’s Housing Authority has revealed. According to official documents, the main contractor on the project is Able Engineering. The same company is also involved in a scanda...
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The quality of concrete used in three blocks of a public housing estate under construction in Tung Chung requires furthe
r testing and review, Hong Kong’s Housing Authority has revealed. According to official documents, the main contractor on the project is Able Engineering. The same company is also involved in a scanda...
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Why PLA’s laser-equipped Type 19 vehicle could matter in a Taiwan conflict
The People’s Liberation Army may be seeking to give its frontline mechanised units mobile protection against the kind of
drone-saturated battlefield that could emerge in a Taiwan conflict. Unverified images posted on mainland Chinese social media on August 29 show a new variant of the Type 19 amphibious 8x8 combat vehi...
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The People’s Liberation Army may be seeking to give its frontline mechanised units mobile protection against the kind of
drone-saturated battlefield that could emerge in a Taiwan conflict. Unverified images posted on mainland Chinese social media on August 29 show a new variant of the Type 19 amphibious 8x8 combat vehi...
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Iranian president, Abu Dhabi crown prince meet on sidelines of Brics summit in India
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and Crown Prince Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan of Abu Dhabi met on t
he sidelines of the Brics summit in New Delhi on Saturday, marking the highest-level meeting between the two sides since the Iran war began. The bilateral meeting came as the fallout of the war in Ira...
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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and Crown Prince Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan of Abu Dhabi met on t
he sidelines of the Brics summit in New Delhi on Saturday, marking the highest-level meeting between the two sides since the Iran war began. The bilateral meeting came as the fallout of the war in Ira...
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Xi tells Modi China and India bear ‘significant responsibilities’ as Global South powers
Chinese President Xi Jinping told Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday that China and India, as the world’s m
ost populous nations and key members of the Global South, bore “significant responsibilities” in an international landscape “fraught with turbulence and change”. That message framed why the two sides ...
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Chinese President Xi Jinping told Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday that China and India, as the world’s m
ost populous nations and key members of the Global South, bore “significant responsibilities” in an international landscape “fraught with turbulence and change”. That message framed why the two sides ...
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Will Malaysia’s Umno pull the plug on coalition partner PH?
The political impasse in Malaysia’s government has regressed to a game of chicken, experts say, with Prime Minister Anwa
r Ibrahim and the former ruling Umno party trading barbs and dares as pressure grows for snap polls with more than a year left to term. Relations between Anwar’s Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition and ers...
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The political impasse in Malaysia’s government has regressed to a game of chicken, experts say, with Prime Minister Anwa
r Ibrahim and the former ruling Umno party trading barbs and dares as pressure grows for snap polls with more than a year left to term. Relations between Anwar’s Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition and ers...
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Under Trump’s shadow, Brics takes step towards de-dollarisation
Brics countries agreed on Saturday to expand trade and payments in local currencies, making another step towards de-doll
arisation as the bloc seeks to counter an assertive United States. Facing pressure from Washington, the member nations found enough common ground to overcome some of their biggest diplomatic splits. T...
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Brics countries agreed on Saturday to expand trade and payments in local currencies, making another step towards de-doll
arisation as the bloc seeks to counter an assertive United States. Facing pressure from Washington, the member nations found enough common ground to overcome some of their biggest diplomatic splits. T...
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US-China decoupling could benefit other countries, China trade war game suggests
Chinese researchers have modelled a war game scenario suggesting that a complete economic decoupling between the US and
China could, unexpectedly, yield dividends for most other nations. Using a quantitative trade model – a data-based economic framework that estimates how changes in trade affect economies – two researc...
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Chinese researchers have modelled a war game scenario suggesting that a complete economic decoupling between the US and
China could, unexpectedly, yield dividends for most other nations. Using a quantitative trade model – a data-based economic framework that estimates how changes in trade affect economies – two researc...
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French police probe if sabotage derailed train and injured 44
Investigators suspect that a train derailment in northwest France which injured 44, one gravely, was the result of sabot
age, a police source said on Saturday. A fragment of rail was found on the track, with the possibility of a malicious act being treated as the main line of inquiry as a result, the source said. Carryi...
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Investigators suspect that a train derailment in northwest France which injured 44, one gravely, was the result of sabot
age, a police source said on Saturday. A fragment of rail was found on the track, with the possibility of a malicious act being treated as the main line of inquiry as a result, the source said. Carryi...
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A year after lawmakers veto equality bill, LGBTQ Hongkongers still hope for change
When Hong Kong’s Legislative Council vetoed a government bill that would have granted limited recognition to the city’s
same-sex couples, 51-year-old Isaac Yick said he was “disappointed but not surprised”. Yick was born and raised in Hong Kong before moving to Canada, where he eventually met and married his husband. T...
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When Hong Kong’s Legislative Council vetoed a government bill that would have granted limited recognition to the city’s
same-sex couples, 51-year-old Isaac Yick said he was “disappointed but not surprised”. Yick was born and raised in Hong Kong before moving to Canada, where he eventually met and married his husband. T...
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Rescue operation launched after boat begins to sink at Hung Hom
A rescue operation was launched in Hung Hom in Hong Kong on Saturday afternoon after a recreational vessel began taking
on water and sinking. Emergency services were alerted at around 1.36pm when a man fishing nearby spotted the pleasure boat gradually submerging off the Hung Hom Promenade. Police and firefighters rush...
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A rescue operation was launched in Hung Hom in Hong Kong on Saturday afternoon after a recreational vessel began taking
on water and sinking. Emergency services were alerted at around 1.36pm when a man fishing nearby spotted the pleasure boat gradually submerging off the Hung Hom Promenade. Police and firefighters rush...
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Chinese leader Xi urges Brics to play its ‘due role’ in bringing peace to Middle East
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday hailed Brics as the world’s most influential platform for cooperation among eme
rging markets and developing countries. Speaking at the bloc’s summit in New Delhi, Xi also called on the leaders of major emerging economies to play a “due role” in bringing peace to the Middle East,...
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Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday hailed Brics as the world’s most influential platform for cooperation among eme
rging markets and developing countries. Speaking at the bloc’s summit in New Delhi, Xi also called on the leaders of major emerging economies to play a “due role” in bringing peace to the Middle East,...
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China urges US to ‘stop all spying’ or face retaliation, slams ‘gangster logic’
Beijing has urged the United States to “immediately stop all espionage activities” targeting Chinese companies, warning
that it had “firm resolve and abundant means” to retaliate after a senior CIA official defended spying on China’s artificial intelligence (AI) and chip sectors. The call from China’s Ministry of Comme...
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Beijing has urged the United States to “immediately stop all espionage activities” targeting Chinese companies, warning
that it had “firm resolve and abundant means” to retaliate after a senior CIA official defended spying on China’s artificial intelligence (AI) and chip sectors. The call from China’s Ministry of Comme...
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