Turkey has rejected Israeli claims over a possible Turkish military presence at a Syrian airbase, as the dispute draws concern from Washington and adds to tensi
France, whose relationship with Iran has been strained, announced the expulsion of two Iranian diplomats. The retaliatory measure follows the detention of two French embassy staff…
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Fashion has long borrowed from art, music and cinema, but now it seems to be literature's turn in the spotlight. The latest example comes from the Italian gentlemen's maison Berlu…
The US is working to set up a deconfliction mechanism between Turkey, Syria and Israel, US special envoy for Syria Tom Barrack said, after Israel struck a Syrian airbase near the …
Many of the alleged cyber attacks were carried out for the Iranian government, the Department of Justice says.
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More genetically modified food is likely to appear in Dutch stores when rules on licensing and labelling are relaxed in two years’ time. The European parliament passed a law befor…
OpenAI said Tuesday it is pausing some model work over safety concerns, days after rival Anthropic doubled down on insisting that its own safety measures were solid enough that it…
Five countries border the Caspian Sea, but none owns a fixed share. A 2018 convention established rules for navigation, security and fishing while leaving some seabed borders unre…
The Iran war — defined by fits and starts and strain on America's military — will hit the half-year mark next week with both Washington and Tehran betting they can outlast one ano…
Every night, for every human being that ever was and ever will be, the Moon rises to remind us how improbably lucky we are, each of its craters a monument of the odds we prevailed…