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Microsoft calls on Trump to ‘push harder’ on cyber threats
Microsoft president Brad Smith has called on United States president-elect Donald Trump not to break step with his predecessor’s work on cyber security, saying that threat actors working on behalf of China, Iran and Russia present an ever greater threat to American and global security. Speaking to...
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Musk hopes to make budget cutting cool
If Donald Trump doesn’t kill Elon Musk before Musk offs Vivek Ramaswamy, together the three best bros have a chance to achieve something every administration promises, but none has delivered: Rid the federal budget of waste, fraud and inefficiency. President-elect Trump tasked Musk, the X and...
photo: AP / Richard Drew
How the world gave up on 1.5 degrees
When, at the annual United Nations climate conference in Paris in 2015, the countries of the world agreed to the goal of limiting global temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, it seemed possible, probable even, that humanity was on track to avoiding the worst...
photo: UN / Vugar Ibadov
Arab League condemns Israeli occupation’s attempts to escalate aggression on the region as a whole
Cairo, SANA- Arab League condemned the genocide crimes committed by Israeli occupation against Palestinian people, as well the repeated aggression on Syrian and Lebanese territories and attempts to escalate that in the region, including Iraq, warning against the outbreak of a regional war threatens...
photo: UN / Eskinder Debebe
Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos dispute over stock allegations
Arabian Post - Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have become embroiled in a public spat over claims involving stock predictions tied to the 2024 U.S. presidential election. The conflict centers on Musk’s assertion that Bezos had advised people to sell stock in Tesla and...
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French mass rape trial enters sentencing stage
Court sketch showing defendant Dominique Pelicot. — AFP/File AIVGNON: Having evidence in the mass rape scandal, French prosecutors will be putting forward their sentencing requests to judges on Monday against a man who is under trial for allegedly drugging his wife for years so he could invite...
photo: AP / Lewis Joly, File
Many of Israel's Western supporters indicate they would arrest Netanyahu. Will Australia and NZ follow suit?
Ever since the October 7 2023 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, the Albanese government has consistently said Australia respects Israel's right to defend itself, but how it does so matters. To an international lawyer, those words are code for simultaneously exercising the right of self defence and...
photo: AP / Mahmoud Illean
Philippines' Marcos says threat of assassination 'troubling'
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos said on Monday he will not take lightly "troubling" threats against him, just days after his estranged vice president said she had asked someone to assassinate the president if she herself was killed. In a...
photo: AP / Aaron Favila
U.N. Says an Average of 140 Women Were Killed Every Day of 2023 by a Partner or Relative
The deadliest place for women is at home and 140 women and girls on average were killed by an intimate partner or family member per day last year, two U.N. agencies reported Monday. Globally, an intimate partner or family member was responsible for the deaths of approximately 51,100 women and girls...
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Marjorie Taylor Greene reveals how Elon Musk's DOGE will crack down on sanctuary cities that ...
Marjorie Taylor Greene laid out her plans for the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) which include taking on so-called Sanctuary States and Cities. The Georgia Congresswoman and fierce Trump ally will soon have a new powerful job assisting the Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy-led department....
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