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The Trump administration’s nominee to be ambassador to Saudi Arabia argued that Washington’s civilian nuclear deal with Riyadh was critical to ensuring the kingdom did not turn to China, and added that normalization of its ties with Israel was “part of the negotiation process.” Speaking yesterday during a Senate Foreign ...

Workers in Spain held a general strike over the country’s housing affordability crisis, an issue that has swept to the top of voter concerns across Europe. Spain’s socialist leader hopes the demonstrations will galvanize support for his party ahead of elections this month. The housing crunch has worsened during his ...

Scrutiny intensified over the extent of the Trump administration’s knowledge of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s relationship with an alleged Chinese spy, a scandal that comes just a week before a superpower summit. US President Donald Trump was told in May, while en route to China, that Washington had intelligence of ...

Major international organizations, including the UN children’s agency and US President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace, criticized Israel for not providing sufficient access for humanitarian agencies combatting worsening storm conditions in Gaza. Around two-thirds of Gaza’s population, displaced by Israel’s war in the enclave, lives in tents, tens of thousands ...

US midterm election results that largely cemented growing public opposition to the AI infrastructure buildout will likely have limited impact on data center construction in 2027, but may trigger a slowdown in subsequent years, economists forecast. JP Morgan projected AI-related capex in the US will reach at least $1.5 trillion ...

He is a sci-fi titan but M John Harrison has just exploded into the mainstream – with The End of Everything, an apocalyptic novel set on the Kent coast. Does he really think we have no hope left? With his twinkling eyes and silver ponytail, M John Harrison doesn’t seem ...

Safety campaigners have condemned it and owners have complained about it. Goodbye to a steel monstrosity seemingly designed by a five-year-old Elon Musk is having a rough go of it, isn’t he? The world’s richest man spent almost half a billion dollars on the midterms in a failed attempt to ...

Bessent, the driving force behind US push to cripple Iran’s economy, relocates reportedly over threat to his life The US Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, has relocated from his home in the Washington area to a military base after an Iranian threat against his life, the New York Times reported on ...

Democratic senators are urging Secretary of State Marco Rubio to intervene diplomatically to address the crisis in Ethiopia, warning that renewed fighting in Tigray and escalating tensions with Eritrea could spiral into a multi-front war destabilizing the region. In a letter shared first with Semafor, lawmakers led by Sen. Jeanne ...

Rights groups condemn reported punishment of Kenyan migrant worker as an ‘act of violence’ A Kenyan mother in Saudi Arabia has reportedly been sentenced to 100 lashes after giving birth outside marriage. Under the Saudi sharia law system, sex outside marriage is a criminal offence. But it is women who ...