WASHINGTON, July 7 (Reuters) – The United States announced on Friday that it will send Ukraine widely-banned cluster munitions as part of a security assistance package, a move Ukraine said would have an “extraordinary psycho-emotional impact” on occupying Russian forces. … Read More
Switzerland and Austria have signed a declaration of intent to join the European air defence system Sky Shield. The system was initiated by Germany following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and is designed to allow European countries to buy defence systems … Read More
July 2 (UPI) — The first dose of a drug developed by artificial intelligence has been delivered to its first patient. Insilico Medicine, a biotechnology company based in Hong Kong, announced that human patients have begun receiving the drug INS018_055, … Read More
In his 155-page ruling, Judge Terry Doughty said there is “substantial evidence” the government violated the First Amendment by engaging in a large-scale censorship campaign targeting content that questioned or countered establishment narratives on COVID-19. In a landmark ruling Tuesday, … Read More
Israel’s military says it responded with artillery fire after a rocket was launched from southern Lebanon. A statement said the rocket “exploded adjacent to the Blue Line in Israeli territory”, referring to the UN-demarcated frontier between the states. Lebanon’s state … Read More
Secret Service review of visitor logs and surveillance cameras will seek to determine how drug came to be in the West Wing A formal laboratory test of a white powder found in a “highly-trafficked” area of the White House has … Read More
The head of the United Nations’ atomic agency, Rafael Mariano Grossi, conducted a tour of Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant on Wednesday and expressed satisfaction with a controversial plan to release treated radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean. Grossi observed … Read More
Canada’s federal government has said it will pull all its advertising from Facebook and Instagram. It follows parent company Meta’s move to restrict news content for Canadians after parliament passed a law that will force tech firms to pay media … Read More
Yellen heads to Beijing this week in move one expert calls an attempt to ‘put some floor’ under strained economic ties US Treasury secretary Janet Yellen will visit Beijing this week, marking the second trip by a cabinet official to … Read More
Days of protests across France saw escalations to violence including an apparent assassination attempt of the mayor of a Paris suburb, Vincent Jeanbrun, and the burning of public buildings and transport. The seventh day of protests are expected to continue … Read More