Day: August 17, 2026

Likud’s depiction of Zohran Mamdani is latest move in spat between Israel’s prime minister and New York City mayor Benjamin Netanyahu’s party has compared the New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani, to the leaders of Iran and Hezbollah on a campaign billboard. The billboard in central Tel Aviv depicts Mamdani ...

The Scoop L3Harris CEO Chris Kubasik was ousted by his board after an independent probe found he engaged in an inappropriate relationship with an employee, according to two people briefed on the probe. The probe was conducted by the $54 billion defense contractor’s outside law firm, and wrapped up in ...

South Africa’s central bank is investigating a fintech firm co-founded and chaired by a senior official in the coalition government’s second-largest party over alleged exchange control violations involving a $220 million offshore transfer. The inquiry into Kastelo, the company founded by the Democratic Alliance’s head of finance Mark Burke, threatens ...

Senegal raised fuel prices by 7% in order to contain the cost of subsidies, underscoring Africa’s vulnerability to foreign energy shocks like the one sparked by the Iran war. The government has spent nearly all of its full-year allocation for fuel subsidies already, after oil prices surpassed the $85 benchmark ...

Zambia’s President Hakainde Hichilema took a commanding lead in the general election, putting him on course to secure a second term at the helm of Africa’s second-biggest copper producer. With more than half of the constituencies having reported following last week’s polls, official results showed Hichilema securing roughly 58% of ...

Qatar’s first electric vehicle factory aims to start production in 2028, following a deal between the local JTA International Investment Holding and British startup Watt Electric Vehicle Company. The agreement will see passenger cars and delivery vans tailored to hot climates made in Qatar, Autocar reported, with an initial run ...

She starred in her first soap opera at 4 – then the hit show Heroes was totally reworked to allow her character, Claire the regenerating cheerleader, to live on. We celebrate the star, who has died age 36 • Hayden Panettiere – a life in pictures• Hayden Panettiere obituary When ...

The president was forced to hide in a catering truck amid the Iran war, in an encapsulation of the conflict’s failures For decades, Donald Trump cultivated a public image based on strength and dominance. He was a brash New York real estate mogul; a reality TV star who deployed his ...

Federal and state lawmakers have proposed several bills to make it easier for owners to fix items such as phones, cars, wheelchairs and more Aaron Lehman is the fifth generation to run his family farm in central Iowa. He uses six tractors and grows corn, soybeans, oats and hay on ...

An expert witness testifying in a lawsuit about liability for a Houston explosion that killed three people and destroyed roughly 200 homes used ChatGPT to write significant portions of his “expert report.” The man, who was hired by the industrial product conglomerate 3M, exposed his AI prompts publicly. They showed ...