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Despite the establishment of an impeachment committee, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has ruled out resigning over the cash heist scandal.
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Despite the establishment of an impeachment committee, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has ruled out resigning over the cash heist scandal.

Move comes as administration seeks to boost drilling, logging, mining and grazing on taxpayer-owned landThe interior department is canceling a rule that put conservation on equal footing with development, as Donald Trump’s administration eases restrictions on industries and seeks to boost drilling, logging, mining and grazing on taxpayer-owned land.The 2024 rule adopted under former president Joe Biden was meant to refocus the interior department’s Bureau of Land Management, whi

The forward is only the fifth player to win the trophy in consecutive years, despite a difficult season.

Defence department says another ADF soldier was injured on Monday evening, but didn’t require hospitalisationFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email,
Researchers at the University of Toronto found Canadian visits to US cities fell by nearly half in the year following the start of Trump's trade war.

Oil prices rose Tuesday amid concerns over a prolonged Middle East conflict after President Trump's comments that the ceasefire with Iran is on "life support"

Robinhood files confidentially for its second venture fund, this time targeting growth as well as early-stage startups.
GitLab's CEO told employees the restructuring means layoffs, flatter structure, smaller teams, and AI agents everywhere.

Health minister Mark Butler says six people from MC Hondius plus flight crew from charter plane to be isolated for weeksFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email,

Asia-Pacific markets rise as investors shrugged off fresh doubts over the fragile U.S.-Iran ceasefire.

David Malpass' comments come as US President Donald Trump and China's Xi Jinping are due to meet in Beijing.

Iran's powerful parliamentary speaker says US has 'no alternative but to accept' Tehran's 14-point proposal to end war.

It is seeking to open three bases in the south of the Arctic territory, according to multiple officials familiar with the talks.

The former OpenAI chief scientist may be estranged from the company, but he still came to its defense as he testified on Monday.

Trump's whirlwind visit to China is the most significant for years - but will it bear fruit?

Calls for Keir Starmer to resign as British prime minister intensified Monday after heavy local and regional election defeats, with dozens of Labour MPs reportedly urging him to step aside despite his vow to “prove doubters wrong” and push a more ambitious agenda.

Taiwan, tariffs and the strait of Hormuz are on the meeting’s agenda for Beijing – but will the US president be forced to ask for help in ending his war with Iran?On 20 February, a White House official confirmed that US president Donald Trump would be travelling to Beijing the following month to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Top of the agenda: the US-China trade war.One week later, Trump approved joint strikes with Israel against Iran, starting a new war in the Middle Eas

OpenAI is launching Daybreak, an AI initiative focused on detecting and patching vulnerabilities before attackers find them. Daybreak uses the Codex Security AI agent that launched in March to create a threat model based on an organization's code and focus on possible attack paths, validate likely vulnerabilities, and then automate the detection of the higher […]

Some of the positions focus on AI-native development, data engineering and analytics, cloud-based engineering, and agent and model development as well as prompt engineering and new AI workflows.
BuzzFeed was supposed to be the future of media. But that future wasn't supposed to be a last-ditch sale.

Research from UCL suggests visiting art galleries or museums, singing and painting can help improve health outcomesSinging, painting or visiting a gallery or museum helps people age more slowly, according to the latest study to link taking an active interest in art and culture with improved health.The findings are the first to show that both participating in arts activities and attending events, such as viewing an exhibition, lead to people

More than 100 figures sign open letter criticising closure, just months after MA was launchedMore than 100 academics, writers and activists from around the world have signed an open letter condemning plans to close an MA in Black studies and global justice at Birmingham City University (BCU), just months after it was first launched.The move follows the

Dip in credit card spending in April, particularly on travel, suggests Britons preparing for harder times amid Iran war falloutHouseholds cut back on their spending in April at the fastest pace in 18 months, as the conflict in the Middle East provoked fears of another cost of living crisis, a report from one of the UK’s biggest banks has suggested.Barclays, which processes nearly 40% of the UK’s credit and debit card transactions, said its data showed there had been a 0.1% fall

The stakes for AI security have risen sharply in the runup to the first trip to China by a sitting U.S. president in nearly a decade.