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The Syrian government has scrambled to squash rumours the new president has been ‘cooperating’ with the United States to fight ISIS for nearly a decade just days after he was welcomed to the White House. Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa and President Donald Trump enjoyed a very warm meeting on November 10 which led to the new Middle Eastern leader saying …

Menu planning, therapy, essay writing, highly sophisticated global cyberattacks: People just keep coming up with innovative new uses for the latest AI chatbots. An alarming new milestone was reached this week when the artificial intelligence company Anthropic announced that its flagship AI assistant Claude was used by Chinese hackers in what the company is calling the “first reported AI-orchestrated cyber …

A team of researchers has uncovered what they say is the first reported use of artificial intelligence to direct a hacking campaign in a largely automated fashion. The AI company Anthropic said this week that it disrupted a cyber operation that its researchers linked to the Chinese government. The operation involved the use of an artificial intelligence system to direct …

An armed gang killed at least 57 people after a brutal attack on villages following a dawn raid. The incident took place in South Sudan’s Upper Nile State, a local official said. The attackers struck just after 5.30am, and fired their weapons randomly at residents in the Adong Payam area. Baliet County Commissioner Joseph Deng said 65 people were wounded, …

Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has called out Vitaly Klitschko’s hypocrisy after he suggested lowering the draft age Kiev mayor Vitaly Klitschko is calling for lowering the draft age in Ukraine, while his own two sons are avoiding service despite being in great physical shape, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said. Last year, Ukraine lowered the conscription age …

A bus has crashed into pedestrians in Stockholm, Sweden, with local media reporting that multiple people have been killed. The force have not specified the number of people dead or their identities. The bus driver has been arrested, according to Swedish daily newspaper Aftonbladet. In a statement, police said the incident had been classified as aggravated manslaughter. FOLLOW OUR LIVE …

US President Donald Trump on Friday said he was asking the Department of Justice to investigate Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged ties with JPMorgan and several prominent Democratic figures, including former US president Bill Clinton. The request comes after a congressional committee released thousands of documents that raised new questions about Trump’s relationship with the convicted sex offender. Along with Clinton, who …

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW — Anthropic’s announcement that Chinese state-sponsored hackers used its Claude AI technology for a largely automated cyberattack underscores how cybercriminals are becoming faster, stronger and more organized, driven by advances in technology like artificial intelligence. Criminal networks are now blending phishing, fraud and ransomware with other enterprises like trafficking and money laundering, making this borderless threat even more …

Financial Lifelines and Sanctions The November 5 announcement from the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) targeted key elements of Hezbollah’s financial network. Two operatives — Ossama Jaber, a Hezbollah financier who personally collected tens of millions via Lebanese exchange houses from September 2024 to February 2025, and Ja’far Muhammad Qasir, a sanctioned terrorist collaborating with Syrian oil …

The lender will dispatch a team to discuss the terms of a potential new lending program following reports of embezzlement The International Monetary Fund (IMF) plans to engage with Kiev on corruption, the global lender said on Thursday, as a $100 million graft scandal has rocked Vladimir Zelensky’s government. On Monday, Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) charged seven people including …