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Several media outlets in the United States and Russia are reporting that talks to end the war in Ukraine are expected to begin this Tuesday in the Saudi Arabian capital, Riyadh. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, US Ambassador to the Middle East Steve Witkoff and National Security Advisor Mike …

Kyiv has not been invited to talks between the US and Russia aimed at ending the war in Ukraine, a senior Ukrainian government source has told the BBC. Click here to join our WhatsApp Channel The US special envoy to Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, said that Kyiv would participate in Monday’s …

At least 18 people have died and 10 others were injured in an accident at the New Delhi railway station. Click here to join our WhatsApp Channel Thousands of people were reportedly packed into the train station on Saturday night as they tried to board delayed trains. Four of the …

Thirty Kenyan businesses are in danger of shutting down after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the cessation of funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Click here to join our WhatsApp Channel These companies have been supported by USAID’s Development Innovation Ventures (DIV), which has invested over …

TikTok returned to the Apple and Google app stores in the U.S. on Thursday after President Donald Trump postponed a ban on the Chinese-owned social media platform, assuring the tech companies they wouldn’t face penalties for distributing or hosting the app. Click here to join our WhatsApp Channel The widely-used …

At least 30 people have been injured, some seriously, after a car was driven into a crowd in Munich, Germany, just a week before the country’s federal elections. Police say the driver was a 24-year-old Afghan asylum seeker, identified in the media as Farhad N. He was arrested at the …

Merger talks between Honda and Nissan have collapsed after the firms failed to agree on a multi-billion-dollar tie-up. The Japanese carmakers, along with junior partner Mitsubishi, had aimed to combine their businesses to fight back against competition from rival firms, especially in China. The merger would have created an auto …

US President Donald Trump said he had a “long and very productive” phone call with Vladimir Putin on Wednesday in which the leaders agreed to begin talks to end the war in Ukraine. In a post on his Social Media platform, Trump said he and the Russian president had “agreed …

With its recent AI model breakthrough, Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company DeepSeek has drawn a flurry of positive reactions from leading U.S. tech firms. The company’s R1 reasoning model, released last month, has been widely compared with OpenAI’s currently most advanced model o1. But the R1 model was built at …

A teacher has stabbed an eight-year-old boy at an elementary school in South Korea, in an incident that has shocked the nation. Click here to join our WhatsApp Channel The female teacher, who is in her 40s, admitted to stabbing the student in the central city of Daejeon, police said. …