1+ hour, 39+ min ago   (1085+ words) The head of AI company Anthropic has called for the pace of development of artificial intelligence models to slow down and to be closely monitored. In an essay, Dario Amodei said developing AI was not in question, but the risks…...

2+ hour, 7+ min ago   (117+ words) SANTIAGO, Chile (AFP): More than 280 people were arrested in Chile during protests condemning Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship, the government said Saturday. Authorities arrested 284 people, including 31 minors, Public Security Minister Martin Arrau said on X. Pinochet led a dictatorship in Chile from…...

10+ hour, 44+ min ago   (209+ words) SANTIAGO (AFP): A fire at a nursing home in Chile has killed 16 people, authorities said Saturday. The blaze began on Friday night at the nursing home in the Araucania region, 640 kilometers (400 miles) south of the capital Santiago, and was extinguished…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (96+ words) (Reuters): Iran has resumed ​producing ballistic missiles from existing components while ‌working ‌in ​underground facilities, ‌the ⁠Wall ​Street Journal ⁠reported on Thursday, citing officials from ⁠the ‌United States ‌and ​the ‌Middle ‌East. The missiles are being ‌assembled in more limited…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (243+ words) The spokesperson for the M23 rebel group, Lawrence Kanyuka, said 19 girls and five boys were killed, adding that 29 people were being treated at local medical facilities. He said several students were trapped inside Furaha secondary school and some suffocated. A mix…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (155+ words) LONDON (Reuters): Two people have been arrested in London as part of an investigation into suspected National Security Act offenses linked to Iran, British police said on Thursday. London’s Metropolitan Police said a 42-year-old ‌woman and ‌a 60-year-old man were…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (373+ words) COLOMBO (AFP): Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court overturned Thursday a presidential pardon granted to a hardline Buddhist monk and ordered him to serve the remainder of a six-year prison sentence for intimidating the wife of a missing cartoonist. The ruling marks…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (586+ words) VIENNA (Reuters): The UN nuclear watchdog’s 35-nation board ​of governors has passed a resolution reporting Iran to the UN Security Council for the first time in 20 years for breaching its non-proliferation obligations, diplomats said on Wednesday. The resolution follows a…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (568+ words) WASHINGTON (AFP): Meta said Wednesday it had begun testing Community Notes in 16 Spanish-speaking countries in Latin America, a step toward replacing the professional fact-checking program it runs with partner organizations across the region. The crowd-sourced notes system, modeled on the…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (415+ words) SEOUL (AFP): Dozens of South Koreans urged their government on Wednesday not to deploy troops to the strategic Strait of Hormuz, slamming what they called Washington’s “illegal war”. The protesters across from the large US embassy compound in Seoul waved…...