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Impoverished by war in Iran, Afghan migrants return to Taliban rule

Business September 17, 2026

Mohammad Saeed had just turned 18 when he fled to Iran with his parents and younger brother and sister, escaping the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan in 2021. Now Saeed and his family are am...

Australia bars foreign students from bringing partners, children in immigration crackdown

News September 17, 2026

Australia will stop foreign students from bringing partners and children to ​accompany them while they study and tighten working holiday visa rules, a senior minister said on Thursday, amid growing ...

US Fed builds credibility, but hawkish turn leaves investors edgy

News September 17, 2026

Investors are gaining more confidence in the Federal Reserve’s inflation-fighting backbone, but uncertainty about how far it will raise interest rates to keep prices in check is likely to cause vola...

OpenAI's rogue agents probed Hugging Face for weaknesses 2 months before major hack

News September 16, 2026

Rogue AI agents from OpenAI hijacked Hugging Face user accounts and probed the site itself for vulnerabilities as early as May, nearly two months before the July breach of the open-source repository d...

Bombed-out Gaza building collapses, killing 12 people seeking shelter inside

Health September 16, 2026

Gaza rescuers on Wednesday combed through the wreckage of a bombed-out apartment building that collapsed overnight, killing at least 12 Palestinians, including five children, and trapping dozens of ot...

How AI leaders and world governments react to 'AI doom' fears

Health September 15, 2026

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for a slowdown in the pace of advanced AI development on Saturday, winning rare backing from SpaceXAI’s Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and sparking a debate ov...

UN rights chief says recovery of hundreds of bodies from rubble in Gaza raises concerns of war crimes

Health September 15, 2026

The recovery of hundreds of bodies from the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israeli strikes in Gaza that began nearly three years ago has raised fresh concerns about possible war crimes, the United N...

Ex-Google DeepMind researcher adds to warnings that AI could 'kill all humans'

Business September 15, 2026

A former Google DeepMind employee on Monday became the latest AI researcher to warn that the technology could “kill all humans”, saying time could be running out to avoid the outcome. Public alarm...

How China is preparing for the risk of AI escaping human control

Technology September 14, 2026

Warnings from researchers at ​leading US artificial intelligence developer Anthropic that increasingly powerful models could escape human control and even lead to the extinction of the human race, h...

Millions of livelihoods at stake as Himalayas approach tipping point, study finds

News September 14, 2026

The Himalayas are approaching a tipping point as glaciers melt faster than a decade ago, threatening water security as ​the region approaches “peak water” by mid-century, according to a study �...