The most extreme heat is forecast to begin fading at the weekend, with heavy thunderstorms expected on Sunday. Across Europe, cultural landmarks have had to close, farming has suffered and some...
The most extreme heat is forecast to begin fading at the weekend, with heavy thunderstorms expected on Sunday. Across Europe, cultural landmarks have had to close, farming has suffered and some hospitals have struggled to cope. The heatwave has pushed temperatures up to 18 C above their seasonal average.
Highlighting the close bilateral ties between New Delhi and Doha, Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal on Wednesday detailed a key diplomatic outreach following a major industrial tragedy in the Gulf nation.
Jaiswal confirmed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi received a phone call from the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, who expressed deep grief over the loss of 12 Indian lives in a devastating accident at Ras Laffan Industrial City on Sunday night.
China's industrial profits grew more slowly though still at a double-digit pace in May, highlighting a widening divide in an economy leaning on factory output and overseas shipments to counter soft domestic demand.
Profits at the country's industrial firms in May rose 21.1% from a year earlier, easing from a 24.7% jump in April, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed on Saturday.
Anthropic said that the U.S. government has allowed it to release its powerful Claude Mythos 5 artifical intelligence model to some "trusted" U.S. organizations, partially reversing an order two weeks ago to suspend access over national security risks.
More than 100 companies and institutions will now have access to Mythos 5, incluing many Fortune 500 companies, a source familiar with the new directive said, declining to be identified due to the sensitivity of the matter.
Concern that powerful AI systems could be misused by military intelligence users in China, Russia or other countries of concern has prompted President Donald Trump's administration to take an aggressive approach to oversight of releases of Anthropic's and rival OpenAI's frontier models.
John Bolton, a former national security adviser for U.S. President Donald Trump who became one of his fiercest critics, pleaded guilty in federal court on Friday to mishandling classified information and faces up to five years in prison.
Bolton, 77, is accused of sharing sensitive information with two relatives for possible use in a memoir he was writing, including notes on intelligence briefings and meetings with senior government officials and foreign leaders. Prosecutors said he shared more than 1,000 pages in the form of diary entries. He pleaded not guilty to 18 criminal charges last year.
The International Monetary Fund said on Friday it approved about $348.5 million in funding for the Democratic Republic of Congo after completing reviews of programs under its Extended Credit Facility and Resilience and Sustainability Facility.
The third review of the ECF-supported program unlocks about $258.2 million, while the second review under the RSF allows for a disbursement of about $90.3 million, the IMF said.