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A television channel run by Russia’s Ministry of Defence is airing a program it claims is AI-generated. According to advertisements for the show, a neural network is picking the topics it wants to discuss, then uses AI to generate that video.

The Trump administration asked the US Supreme Court to allow it to fire the Federal Reserve governor, Lisa Cook, as it continues its extraordinary attack on the central bank’s independence.

French first lady Brigitte Macron is preparing to present "photographic and scientific evidence" in court to prove that she is a woman.

The arrest in Bulgaria of Igor Grechushkin — whose ship carried chemicals to Lebanon that exploded in 2020 — is viewed as a sign that a long stalled investigation might finally get results.

Starbucks workers in three states took legal action against the coffee giant on Wednesday, alleging that it violated the law when it changed its dress code but refused to reimburse employees who had to buy new clothes.

U.S. hospital operator Prospect Medical Holdings collapsed this year due to prolonged neglect and overwhelming debt.

The Georgian Prosecutor’s Office on Tuesday announced the arrest of a local currency exchange owner accused of laundering more than $660 million, calling it the country’s largest money-laundering scheme to date.

The Romanian subsidiary of Austria’s HS Timber Group faces allegations that it under-reported the amount of lumber it processed and avoided taxes on some sales.

Europol-supported operations in Spain and Portugal have seized more than 4 tonnes of cocaine and led to over 60 arrests between November 2024 and September 2025.

The US is taking steps to reclaim the Bagram airbase from the Taliban after losing it during the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, Donald Trump announced.

Venezuela says it has launched three days of large-scale military exercises in the Caribbean after several U.S. attacks on alleged drug trafficking boats.

ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show indefinitely beginning Wednesday after comments that he made about Charlie Kirk’s killing led a group of ABC-affiliated stations to say it would not air the show and provoked some ominous comments from a top federal regulator.

Saudi Arabia and nuclear-armed Pakistan have entered into a mutual defence agreement that considers an attack on either country as an attack on both — a crucial agreement following Israel’s strike on Qatar last week.

Israeli fighter jets over the Red Sea launched ballistic missiles to target Hamas leaders in Qatar last week, a U.S. defence official said, in a novel method likely designed to overcome the energy-rich country’s air defences and avoid entering any Mideast nation’s airspace.

The EU has called for closer ties with India, while admitting there was no “mutual understanding” with Narendra Modi’s government over Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Cocaine use is now more popular than ever in the U.S., with a major resurgence in recent years, allowing the Mexican drug lord largely responsible for the boom to profit.

On Wednesday, a Kyrgyz court sentenced two former employees of Kloop, a leading investigative newsroom and OCCRP partner, to five years in prison and handed three years of probation to two former accountants, all charged with conspiring to “incite mass unrest,” officials said. Lawyers and Kloop management have called the case baseless.

Two men from San Fernando Valley have been charged with orchestrating a $611 million scheme to export fraudulently obtained consumer electronics and gift cards, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.

As Lebanon’s Parliament resumes debate on a new media law, rights groups are urging lawmakers to ensure the legislation protects, rather than curbs, freedom of expression.

The EU executive has called for a suspension of free trade with Israel and sanctions on two far-right Israeli ministers in response to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, said that two foreign laboratories had confirmed her husband was poisoned, after tests on biological samples secretly smuggled out of Russia.

France has put forward a proposal to limit the use of British-produced military components in the EU’s €150bn defence fund, which could potentially complicate the discussions over the UK’s entry into the scheme.