CAIRO | Xinhua | Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the Palestinian Authority (PA), and the Arab League (AL) stressed in a joint statement on Saturday the rejection of any attempt to displace Palestinians from the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank. The statement was …
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TEL AVIV | TASS | Israeli and US citizen Keith Sigal, who was released in the Gaza Strip, was taken to the territory of the Jewish state by the Israeli military, the army press service reported. “The released hostage Keith Sigal arrived in Israeli territory accompanied by the Israel Defense …
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RAFAH, Egypt | Xinhua | Mohamed Ragab stood among crates of wilted fruits and vegetables, his frustration palpable: The 28-year-old truck driver has just completed the exhausting process of unloading his vehicle yet again, only to watch the perishable cargo spoil after being held for 72 hours by the …
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CAIRO | TASS | Israel has released 110 Palestinian prisoners, including 32 serving life sentences, as part of the Gaza Strip ceasefire deal, the Palestinian Information Office for Prisoners’ Affairs announced in a statement on its Telegram channel on Thursday. “We are glad to announce that the 3rd group of …
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BEIJING, CHINA | Xinhua | The artificial intelligence (AI) community is abuzz with excitement over DeepSeek-R1, a new open-source model developed by the Chinese startup DeepSeek. Released on Jan. 20, it has quickly soared to the top of Apple’s app store’s free charts by Monday, surpassing OpenAI’s ChatGPT. According to …
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NEW YORK, the United States | TASS | The world’s richest people lost at least $108 billion after the decline of the main indices as the Chinese AI developer DeepSeek-R1 update emerged, Bloomberg reported. Billionaires whose fortunes are related to AI suffered the largest losses. The fortune of Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison …
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COMMENT | STUART P.M. MACKINTOSH | Donald Trump is back in the White House, and the technocrats are running for cover. Trump has made clear his desire to dismantle the “deep state,” which he depicts as a shadowy network of bureaucrats who “weaponize” the “power of the state” to “persecute …
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WASHINGTON | Xinhua | The United States pulled back from imposing punitive tariffs on Colombia after the South American country agreed to accept deported citizens sent on U.S. military aircraft on Sunday. This came after a flurry of tariff threats between U.S. President Donald Trump and his Colombian counterpart Gustavo …
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INTERVIEW | Zain Verjee, an executive fellow at the Digital Data and Design Institute at Harvard University, is co-founder of an AI and communications consultancy, and hosts the podcast series Embedded. She talks to the African Business’ Omar Ben Yedder about the future of AI and technology adoption in Africa, two …
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GAZA | Xinhua | Hamas on Sunday rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposal to relocate Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Egypt and Jordan. In a press statement, Hamas described the plan as an “aggressive scheme” aimed at displacing Palestinians and undermining their national cause. Hamas said that the Palestinian …
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The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price
