Jurors heard on Monday how an attacker stabbed novelist Salman Rushdie more than a dozen times in a matter of seconds at a New York lecture during the trial of the man accused of trying to murder the author. The attack left Rushdie blind in one eye. Source link
A group of investors led by Elon Musk is offering about $97.4 billion to buy the nonprofit behind OpenAI, escalating a dispute with the artificial intelligence company that Musk helped found a decade ago. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman rejected the offer in a post on X. Source link
Russia on Tuesday freed a US national imprisoned on drug charges following a visit by Steve Witkoff, US President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy. The White House described Marc Fogel’s release as “an exchange” without giving further details. Source link
Donald Trump meets Jordan’s King Abdullah on Tuesday for what is likely to be a tense encounter following the U.S. president’s Gaza redevelopment idea and threat to cut aid to the U.S.-allied Arab country if it refuses to resettle Palestinians. For in-depth analysis and a deeper perspective on Trump’s widely-panned proposal for the US to … Read more
Cheaper and more plentiful than in the past, drones are changing the face of modern warfare, particularly in Ukraine where they have been used extensively by both sides for both attacks and surveillance. Now, the US Army is hoping to put the lessons learned in Ukraine into practice, training its troops on the latest in … Read more
US President Donald Trump’s former advisor Steve Bannon pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a fraud charge connected to his campaign to raise money to build a wall on the US’s southern border. Bannon had redirected hundreds of thousands of dollars from donors to pay the man leading the fundraising drive. Source link
Viral posts on X, mainly shared by conservative users, make the misleading claim that media organisations like Politico received over 8 million dollars in USAID funds during the 2024 fiscal year. We explain in this edition of Truth or Fake. Source link
The Associated Press said Tuesday that the White House barred its reporter from an event with US President Donald Trump after the news agency refused to adopt his executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America”. The AP condemned the move as a violation of press freedom, while the White House … Read more
The Kremlin on Wednesday said a Russian national was freed from a US jail in exchange for Moscow’s release of a detained American schoolteacher. The acknowledgment came hours after US President Donald Trump welcomed home Marc Fogel and said the release could mark a step toward ending the Ukraine war. Source link
President Donald Trump is hosting Jordan’s King Abdullah II at the White House as he escalates pressure on the Arab nation to take in refugees from Gaza as part of his audacious plan to remake the Middle East. For in-depth analysis and a deeper perspective, François Picard welcomes Dr Amer Al Sabaileh, Academic, Geopolitics Analyst … Read more