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July 22, 2024 3:44 PM

Bangladesh students to keep up protests despite scrapping of most quotas

Bangladesh appeared calm on Monday amid a curfew, but widespread disruption of telecoms persisted a day after the Supreme Court scrapped some controversial job quotas, as protesters set the government a 48-hour deadline to meet new demands. Clashes...

July 22, 2024 3:29 PM

Nepal PM KP Sharma Oli secures trust vote with two-thirds majority

Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has secured a vote of confidence with a two-thirds majority from the House of Representatives (HoR). A total of 188 out of 263 members of the House of Representatives (HoR) present in the meeting voted for the proposal o...

July 21, 2024 3:51 PM

Bangladesh top court scraps most job quotas that triggered deadly protests, media say

Bangladesh's Supreme Court on Sunday scrapped most of the quotas on government jobs that have sparked student-led protests in which at least 114 people have been killed in the South Asian country, local media reported. The court's Appellate Division...

July 19, 2024 4:15 PM

How Iran’s Khamenei elevated a little-known moderate to the presidency

When intelligence officials briefed Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in May ahead of a snap presidential election, their report was grim: angered by economic hardship and crackdowns on social freedoms, most Iranians planned to boycott the...

July 18, 2024 11:13 PM

Boy lives in permanent shade to survive dangerous sunlight

Pol Dominguez, 11, is enjoying his summer holidays in Spain. But unlike most children his age, he does not spend his days at the beach or pool, instead staying indoors to avoid ultraviolet radiation that could be deadly for him. Dominguez hasXerode...

July 18, 2024 12:25 PM

Ukraine rushes to create AI-enabled war drones

In Ukraine, a handful of startups are developing Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems to help fly a vast fleet of drones, taking warfare into uncharted territory as combatants race to gain a technological edge in battle. Ukraine hopes a rollout of AI...

July 17, 2024 5:27 PM

U.S. start-up uses AI to track space junk and warn of collisions

A U.S. start-up is hoping to help solve the burgeoning issue of space junk with an artificial intelligence driven tracking system that warns satellite operators before a collision that can create even more debris. Privateer, co-founded by Apple's St...

July 17, 2024 10:39 PM

After Trump shooting, conservative supporters still fiercely oppose gun reforms

After former President Trump narrowly escaped an assassination attempt, a bullet grazing his ear on Saturday from an AR-15-style semiautomatic weapon, Republican party supporters at the Republican National Convention said the attempt is not a Second ...

July 16, 2024 3:44 PM

French left fights over PM role, with current government set to resign

France's left-wing parties fought bitterly on Tuesday over who to put forward as prime minister, leading Communist party leader Fabien Roussel to warn they were risking a "shipwreck" despite their election success. President Emmanuel Macron was lik...

July 16, 2024 2:22 PM

J.D. Vance once compared Trump to Hitler. Now they are running mates

Eight years ago, in the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election, J.D. Vance was a bitter critic of Donald Trump. Publicly, he called the Republican presidential candidate an "idiot" and said he was "reprehensible." Privately, he compared him to Ad...

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