Category: 3. Middle East

Leo, in his first encyclical, insists ownership of AI data must not be left solely in private hands.

Pope Leo XIV has called for the “disarming” of artificial intelligence (AI), warning that “new forms of…

Rescuers are continuing to search for survivors trapped under the rubble a day after a hotel under construction collapsed, killing at least four people. Seventeen people are still missing, as their families gather at the scene for news.

Moscow calls upcoming ‘systematic strikes’ on Ukrainian capital a response to Kyiv’s recent attack in Luhansk.

Russia has warned it plans to launch a “series of systematic…

Iran on Monday executed a man on charges related to protests this year, the latest in a spree of hangings on political or security accusations since the start of the US-Israeli war with dozens more risking execution, rights groups said.

Some three…

Around 300 people were stranded mid-air after a technical malfunction halted the Gulmarg Gondola system in Indian-administered Kashmir. Emergency crews used ropes and ladders to rescue passengers from suspended cable cars.

At least 24 people were killed and more than 50 injured when a suicide car bomb detonated on a train carrying soldiers in Quetta, capital of the southwestern Pakistani province of Balochistan, on Sunday.

The attack came amid Pakistan’s Prime…

CAIRO/GAZA, May 25 (Reuters) – An Israeli airstrike on a tent in the southern Gaza Strip on Monday killed two people including a six-year-old girl and wounded 17 other people, including children, Palestinian health officials said.

Medics said the…

Pope Leo has warned that some AI-powered weapons systems are becoming ‘practically beyond human control,’ as he called for stronger oversight in his long-awaited manifesto on the rapidly developing technology.

By Huseyin Hayatsever

ANKARA, May 25 (Reuters) – Turkey’s pro-Kurdish DEM Party condemned on Monday a court ruling that ousted the leadership of the main opposition CHP last week, calling a police operation to evict the leaders from the party’s…