Jared Kushner set to meet Netanyahu following talks with Hamas Jared Kushner meets with Hamas ahead of talks with Netanyahu on Gaza Jared Kushner reportedly spent over two hours on Sunday at the meeting with Hamas chief Khalil al-Hayya in Egypt, where they discussed disarmament, according to a regional official ...
Trump says US to reduce military drills with South Korea after it stayed out of Iran warTrump says US to reduce military drills with South Korea after it stayed out of Iran war
Trump cites his “very good relationship” with North Korea’s leader in deciding to downsize the exercises. ...
Iraq’s impossible predicament: why the country is trapped between Iran and the US – podcastIraq’s impossible predicament: why the country is trapped between Iran and the US – podcast
With the outbreak of this year’s war, Iraq’s balancing act between the two antagonists has collapsed, exposing a perilously fragile state By Ghaith Abdul-Ahad. Read by Mo Ayoub The summer issue of the Long Read magazine is out now. Click here to order Read the text version here Support the ...
Coping with 54C heat: Delhi slum diaries detail living in extreme temperaturesCoping with 54C heat: Delhi slum diaries detail living in extreme temperatures
With heatwaves now recognised as disasters, personal testimonies are key to a new project that looks to protect those living in the most cramped districts of India’s capital Every summer evening, Gulshan follows the same routine. She washes the floor of her one-room home several times so it cools a ...
‘His ache is real’: Bob Dylan and more on the wild genius of honky-tonk hellraiser Gary Stewart‘His ache is real’: Bob Dylan and more on the wild genius of honky-tonk hellraiser Gary Stewart
Worshipped by everyone from Willie Nelson to Joe Strummer, the country star with the amazing voice imploded in a blaze of guns, knives, drugs and infidelities. What’s behind his astonishing posthumous rediscovery? ‘He sings like a man arguing with destiny. It sounds like the ache is real, that the ruin ...
Trump envoy Kushner arrives in Israel after rare Hamas talks on Gaza peace planTrump envoy Kushner arrives in Israel after rare Hamas talks on Gaza peace plan
US President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner is expected to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later on Monday. ...
Ukrainian strikes kill six in Russia, acting governor saysUkrainian strikes kill six in Russia, acting governor says
A 14-year-old child was among four others injured, the acting governor of Russia’s Belgorod region says. ...
New Chinese model adds to AI competitionNew Chinese model adds to AI competition
Chinese AI startup Zhipu said its new GLM-5.3 model outperformed Anthropic’s Mythos 5 in a key cybersecurity benchmark and closed the gap on coding capabilities, marking the latest Chinese open-weight model to claim parity with the Western AI frontier. Following its last release in June, Zhipu, also known as Z.ai, ...
NATO counters suspected Russian drone incursionsNATO counters suspected Russian drone incursions
A Spanish fighter jet shot down a suspected Russian drone over Romania on Sunday, two days after NATO downed a similar drone over Latvia. Such incursions have become a “near-weekly occurrence,” The Wall Street Journal noted, as Russia and Ukraine escalate their air campaigns: Ukraine launched one of its largest ...
Amodei addresses AI backlashAmodei addresses AI backlash
Anthropic CEO and co-founder Dario Amodei pushed back Saturday against criticism that his messaging around AI — that it could centralize power and produce mass job displacement — has stoked the growing backlash against the technology. In rare social media remarks, Amodei acknowledged AI firms “haven’t yet delivered on our ...