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ReutersLocals said 10 families had been living in the building despite warnings that it was unsafeAt least 12 people have been killed, including children, and dozens are missing after a war-damaged building collapsed in the Gaza Strip, according to local rescue teams.Video footage shows the search for bodies and survivors continuing in the rubble of the multi-storey building in the Tal al-Hawa area of Gaza City, its floors sandwiched together.Locals said 10 families had been living in the apartments despite warnings that they were unsafe.Members of the Hamas-run Civil Defence rescue service said they had initially been working with “empty…
ReutersSecretary of State Marco Rubio says South Africa has not addressed US concerns over racial inequality The US has announced visa restrictions targeting people it accuses of discriminating against South Africa’s white minority, in the latest escalation of tensions between the two countries. The Trump administration has criticised South Africa over several issues, including policies aimed at addressing racial inequality that it says discriminate against Afrikaners, descendants mainly of Dutch and French settlers. South Africa has repeatedly denied the claim.”The South African government has not adequately addressed the previously laid out concerns,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a…
BBCThere is an eerie low hum that emanates from data centres, where tens of thousands of chips make trillions of computations a second to help drive the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution.These chips power the text, images and video generated by the queries made by the world of the advanced AI models.Their computations, which are in effect the switching on and off of microscopic silicon transistors that make up a chip, are actually silent. But, as with all computers, almost every watt of the significant electricity powering this process leaves as heat, and the sound you can hear is the slow…
Getty ImagesCarney is a guest of von der Leyen in Strasbourg this week”Wouldn’t it be lovely if Canada was the 28th state of the European Union rather than the 51st state of the United States?” asked Finland’s President Alexander Stubb this summer.The question was rather tongue-in-cheek. US President Donald Trump, who is currently locked in an escalating tariff tussle with Ottawa, has, on a number of occasions, declared his ambition to make Canada the 51st American state – causing deep offence amongst many Canadians.Finland is one of the EU’s 27 member states and a close ally of Canada as a…
Getty ImagesMount Fuji’s official climbing season runs from July to early SeptemberFrom next year, people who attempt to climb Mount Fuji during off-peak seasons and then require rescue by helicopter will have to pay for the service, authorities governing the northern part of the peak say.The fee is among a series of measures Japan’s Yamanashi prefecture is introducing to deter reckless and poorly prepared climbers.A similar fee of 8,000 yen ($51; £38) per five minutes is already in place in nearby Saitama prefecture for other mountainous areas and will be used as a reference.Yamanashi authorities will also require those looking…
CBSAt least one person has died after a helicopter crashed in suburban Los Angeles, fire officials say.Three other people were injured when the aircraft went down between two commercial buildings in the Chatsworth neighbourhood, a Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) spokesperson told the BBC.Footage from the scene showed two shipping containers and several vehicles burning. The blaze has been extinguished, the fire department said.It was not immediately clear who was operating the aircraft, but local media reports suggested it was a news helicopter that was flying near the scene of a fatal bus crash.”That person was declared deceased on scene.…
Deepak JasrotiaSatyawadi Rakshak Party says it spent millions of dollars during 2024 elections – but its office is now shutThere was little to suggest that the locked flat in Anand, in the western Indian state of Gujarat, was the headquarters of a political party.There was no signboard, campaign poster or obvious trace of political activity. But on paper, the Satyawadi Rakshak Party had recently received an extraordinary amount of money.In the financial year ending in March 2024, official records show the Gujarat-based party received more than 3.3bn rupees (approx $35m; £25m) in donations. A few months later, when India held…
Getty ImagesSaab was extradited to the US in May Alex Saab, a former Venezuelan official and aide to ex-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, has pleaded guilty to money laundering charges in the US. The US case against Saab has been closely watched as Maduro and his wife, former First Lady Cilia Flores, face trial next year in New York on weapon and drug charges, which they deny.As part of the plea deal, Saab, 54, must forfeit $195m (£145m), and agree to co-operate fully with US prosecutors. He could face up to 20 years in prison.Maduro and Flores were seized by the…
Watch: What does the munitions shortage mean for the US?The US defence department’s inspector general says the war with Iran has led to “shortfalls” in munitions and a bottleneck in resupply, contradicting President Donald Trump who has repeatedly denied the US is facing shortages. Trump has claimed US munitions supplies are “virtually unlimited” and said reporting otherwise is “fake news”. But the independent watchdog said the US spent more than $22 billion on munitions from February through June, leading to “strategic inventory shortfalls”. When asked about the watchdog’s report, the White House said the US had “more than enough” munitions.…
Getty ImagesEd Sheeran issued a statement on Tuesday saying it was the promoter’s decision to drop Macklemore from his upcoming US tour datesAll of the remaining support acts on Ed Sheeran’s US tour have quit, after the rapper Macklemore was dropped from the line-up for making pro-Palestinian remarks on stage.Among them were Finneas, the brother of pop star Billie Eilish, who said in a statement: “Artists must not be silenced when they speak up for the oppressed.”Irish singer-songwriter Aaron Rowe and Danish band Lukas Graham also announced their departure. Irish folk band Beoga, who perform with Sheeran on stage every…