Advertisement United States OpinionWorld Opinion Opinion Bruno S. SergiandKevin K.F. Chen America is arguing over the wrong AI obstacle Sluggish adoption can’t be blamed on overregulation, and restricting access to US frontier models is no defence against open-source Chinese rivals 3-MIN READ3-MIN Listen Bruno S. SergiandKevin K.F. Chen Published: 8:30pm, 17 Aug 2026 Last month, […]
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A stampede at a Hindu temple in eastern India kills seven people and injures nineteen more.
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ListenListen (1 min) Save Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share facebookxwhatsapp-strokecopylink googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Masrour Barzani, prime minister of Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government [File: Safin Hamid/AFP] Published On 17 Aug 202617 Aug 2026 The office of the prime minister of Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has been targeted in a […]
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Donald Trump has ordered the US military to scale back joint exercises with South Korea.
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