✓Saudi Arabia shuts critical oil pipeline after drone attack: What it means
Baghdad launches investigation, closes border after confirming strike came from Iraqi territory
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August joint-hottest month on record as climate change and El Niño drive heat
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Apple showed off at an event the first major design change to the iPhone in almost 20 years
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✓Social media users could opt out of the algorithm if Australian government has its way – but that’s a big if
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Trump says he would ‘love’ to see unified Ireland and ‘it may as well happen now’ as he visits Dublin – live
US president is meeting politicians and business leaders – and playing golf – during two-day trip to Ireland. Full story: Donald Trump says he would ‘love’ to see united Ireland.…
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Anthropic blocks efforts to use AI to research weapons development and carry out cyber attacks
Anthropic says it has blocked efforts to use its artificial intelligence models to carry out cyber attacks and research which could have led to the creation of biological weapons
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✓Houthis claim major advance in Yemen and tighten grip on Red Sea shipping lane
The Iran-backed Houthis are also reported to have seized Perim - a strategic island on the major shipping route
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✓Global bond sell-off resumes as surging oil prices stoke fears about inflation
Crude jumps above $107 a barrel amid concerns over Middle East conflict and out-of-control government borrowing. Nervous investors across big economies have been dumping…
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✓US consumers faced more high prices in August as Iran war raised energy costs
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✓Xi Jinping gets red carpet at Brics summit amid thaw in India-China relations
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✓Trump and Hegseth use 9/11 memorial remarks at Pentagon to defend war on Iran
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✓Hurricane Lowell’s fierce winds and rains knocks out power on Hawaii’s Kauai
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Trump bans some Canadian imports as North America trade war intensifies
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✓A united Ireland would be 'fantastic' says Trump during Irish visit
Trump is holding meetings in Dublin before attending the Irish Open golf tournament in Doonbeg, County Clare
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At least 44 people injured after train derails in northern France
A derailed train in northern France left at least 44 people injured, officials said
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Albanese’s resources minister celebrating the Beetaloo carbon bomb is a hell of a choice. Labor can’t say it wasn’t warned | Clear Air
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Is Burnham trying to appease Trump? Or Reform? What other reason is there for these North Sea oil plans? | George Monbiot
Climate catastrophe is on our doorstep – yet Labour’s impending approval of further drilling will bring more pain for negligible gains. Pinch yourself, it’s happening again. Here…
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Playing With Fire review – like Disney’s Fantasia on steroids as a virtual Yuja Wang plays amid luminous dreamworlds
Southbank Centre, London Wang’s avatar performs music from Ravel and Debussy to Prokofiev and Liszt while dizzying virtual worlds take shape around her in this virtual reality…
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I’m a father of three who studies the impact of artificial intelligence: this is what parents need to know about AI
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As China rises, Australia is increasingly enmeshed in the US war machine. Is the alliance still worth the risk?
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How the fate of a small furry animal reveals the ecological tragedy of Israel’s war on Lebanon | Hisham Younes
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Labor ditches new packaging laws to cut plastic waste, sparking unprecedented ‘scale and breadth of outrage’
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‘Huge wave’ of carbon storage projects causes alarm in small-town USA as oil firms eye billions in subsidies
Dozens of projects are in development across US despite concerns over environmental and health risks. The plan to bury carbon under remote Indiana farmland is supposed to be a…
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‘There’s a weird market failure in media’: David Brooks on how his new podcast will tackle the big questions
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Revealed: Mexico’s industrial boomtown is making goods for the US. Residents say they’re ‘breathing poison’
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‘It’s hell’: father of slain Australian surfers tells Mexico homicide trial about identifying sons’ bodies
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Extended reality takes visitors from the ruins of West Bank to 17th-century Amsterdam at Venice Immersive
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When her ‘soul cat’ died, she was bereft. Now she designs memorial jewelry to help others with pet loss
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Brother of Muslim police cadet killed in 9/11 'disappointed' by calls for Mamdani to sit out memorial
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‘Our forefathers are coming back’: Naga people celebrate after Oxford museum agrees to return remains
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