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Microsoft bans Chinese AI app Deepseek over data security fears
Microsoft denies its employees use of China's Deepseek

REDMOND, Washington: Microsoft has prohibited its employees from using Deepseek, a Chinese artificial intelligence app, citing concerns...

Bristol Myers, Sanofi to pay $700 million in Hawaii Plavix lawsuit
Drug firms to pay Hawaii $700 million to settle blood thinner lawsuit

HONOLULU, Hawaii: Pharmaceutical giants Bristol Myers Squibb and Sanofi have agreed to pay $700 million to Hawaii to settle a lawsuit...

FDA to roll out AI across all centers by June 30
US FDA centers to deploy AI internally, following experimental run

WASHINGTON, D.C.: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said this week it will start using artificial intelligence (AI) in all...

Appeals court reinstates Oceanografia fraud case against Citigroup
Citigroup faces revived fraud lawsuit over Mexican oil firm

NEW YORK CITY, New York: Citigroup must defend itself against a revived lawsuit accusing the bank of facilitating and concealing a...

Food authority forecasts 500,000 in Gaza will die of starvation
Hundreds of thousands of Gazans being starved to death as world watches

Gaza Faces Imminent Famine as Aid Blockade Enters 70th Day, UN Warns The entire population of Gaza is now at critical risk of famine,...

House passes bill to rename Gulf of Mexico as ‘Gulf of America’
US House passes bill on Trump's Gulf of America

WASHINGTON, D.C.: The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America,...

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Microsoft bans Chinese AI app Deepseek over data security fears
Microsoft denies its employees use of China's Deepseek

REDMOND, Washington: Microsoft has prohibited its employees from using Deepseek, a Chinese artificial intelligence app, citing concerns...

American climber dies on Mount Makalu during charity climb
American climber dies on world's fifth-highest peak in Nepal

KATHMANDU, Nepal: An American climber has died on Mount Makalu in eastern Nepal while raising money for a children's cancer program,...

Multiple risks, few rewards ifor Myanmar's reporters
Journalists in Myanmar go it alone after international aid dries up

On a typical day, Mai Rupa travels through his native Shan State, in eastern Myanmar, documenting the impact of war. A video journalist...

Trucker’s body found months after road collapse in Japan
Body of truck driver recovered from sinkhole in Japan

TOKYO, Japan: After nearly three months of complex recovery efforts, the body of a 74-year-old truck driver was found late last week...

Emperor Emeritus Akihito, 91, hospitalized for heart tests
Japan's retired former emperor to be hospitalized for heart tests

TOKYO, Japan: Emperor Emeritus Akihito, 91, will be hospitalized for heart examinations after doctors detected a potential issue during...

Thousands protest women’s rights reforms in Dhaka
Bangladesh Islamists rally against proposed changes to women's rights

DHAKA, Bangladesh: Thousands of supporters of the Islamist group Hefazat-e-Islam took to the streets of Dhaka to protest proposed legal...

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Wife of a Spy (Supai no tsuma)