✓One dead and more than 30 missing after ferry sinks off Vanuatu coast in rough seas
Prime minister’s office tells families of those missing ‘the nation stands with you’ as search and rescue efforts continue. One person has died and more than 30 are missing after…
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More than 10% chance AI 'could kill all humans' - as Anthropic reveals another 'cybersecurity' incident
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Russian drone hits train near Ukraine-Poland border soon after dignitaries passed through
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Swedish election: centre-left parties lead by just a single seat with most votes counted
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Anthropic and OpenAI CEOs call for AI development to slow down, OpenAI to delay IPO
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✓Indonesian police investigate deaths of Australian man and two children in Bali as suspected murder-suicide
Police in Bali believe the two young children died as a result of violence, while a 57-year-old man is believed to have taken his own life. Indonesian police are investigating the…
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✓Israeli minister threatens to strip Israeli film-makers of citizenship over Gaza documentary NAZA
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✓Russia hits Ukrainian train shortly after Boris Johnson and top European officials leave station
The former UK PM said: "I don't know what warped logic drove Putin to blow up a stationary Ukrainian locomotive on the Polish border this morning"
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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
76% agreement · 2 independent sources
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✓Trump's comments on a united Ireland may have targeted audience across the Atlantic
Nobody could have predicted that today's main global headline would be Trump's desire to see a unified Ireland
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✓Pennsylvania says an unvaccinated woman has died from measles-related complications
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78% agreement · 2 independent sources
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✓Turkish police detain dozens in raids on gay bars and homes of LGBTQ+ activists
Human rights groups in Turkey have accused the government of using a family- values campaign to target the LGBTQ+ community
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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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Afghan woman deported in first-ever "Alien Terrorist" court case, DOJ says
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✓Yemen gov’t forces advance in Taiz as Houthis claim attack on Saudi Arabia
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✓Can Gulf states and Iran negotiate the Strait of Hormuz without the U.S.?
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✓Beijing hits back at Anthropic CEO's call to curb China's AI development
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✓Apple's new boss starts with big gamble on £1,999 first folding iPhone
Apple showed off at an event the first major design change to the iPhone in almost 20 years
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✓UK MPs and Lords call for new laws to tackle AI threat to human rights
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✓Trump downplays warnings of AI risks, citing rivalry with China
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Think of the parable of a frog in boiling water. That’s us dithering as the ‘unprecedented‘ weather becomes more extreme | Helen Pilcher
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We greet the news that AI could extinguish us with a glazed indifference. What is the way out of this nihilism? | Brigid Delaney
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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
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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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