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  France Overlook Hugo Ekitike For World Cup Qualifiers, Maghnes Akliouche Called Up

  Hugo Ekitike has made an impressive start to his Liverpool career with three goals in three competitive outings since arriving in the close-season from Eintracht Frankfurt.

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  Jobs, Exports, Growth At Risk: How US Tariffs May Impact India

  Starting today, 9:31 am, Indian exporters will face one of the harshest trade actions in recent memory - the United States will double down on duties, slapping a 50 per cent tariff on a wide range of goods from India.

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  "Slept With Epstein Once, Thought We Are Going To...": Ghislaine Maxwell

  Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted associate of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, has said that she "slept" with him one time, and her first thought was that they were soon going to start dating.

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  Italy Shuts Down Mount Vesuvius To Tourists As Wildfire Rages

  Italian firefighters on Sunday tackled a wildfire on the flanks of Mount Vesuvius, with all hiking routes up the volcano near Naples closed to tourists.

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  Opinion | Atom Bombs Didn't Prevent World War III. Humans Did

  Growing up in the latter stages of the Cold War, my generation didn't live with the sense of menace and the Bert the Turtle duck-and-cover drills baby boomers endured, but both cohorts were blessed by the absence of a large-scale war.

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  Key US Inflation Gauge Rose Last Month As Trump Tariffs Lifted Goods Prices

  The Federal Reserve's preferred inflation gauge ticked higher last month in a sign that President Donald Trump's broad-based tariffs are starting to lift prices for many goods.

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  History Beckons: India's Koneru Humpy To Meet Divya Deshmukh In FIDE Women's Chess World Cup Final

  Grandmaster Koneru Humpy held her nerves to score a come-from-behind victory over China'sTIngjie Lei in the tiebreaker to set up an all-Indian summit clash against Divya Deshmukh at the FIDE Women's Chess World Cup

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  "Shut Up": Fight Breaks Out On Air Asia Flight After Passenger Calls A Group Of Women "Stupid"

  The incident started when a male passenger seated behind three women became visibly frustrated when they continued talking loudly after the cabin lights were turned off.

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  From Spy Cockroaches To AI Robots: Germany Start-Up Plots Future Of Warfare

  The former partner at McKinsey & Company says Europe may be on the cusp of a transformation in defence innovation akin to the Manhattan Project - the scientific push that saw the US rapidly develop nuclear weapons during World War Two.

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  Delta Airlines May Adopt AI Fare System: What It Would Mean For Travellers

  Delta Airlines President Glen Hauenstein said that the company was evaluating how ticket prices should be set up to offer more personalised and relevant options to each traveller.

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  Blog | Deporting Elon Musk? What Happens If Trump Actually Does It

  Let's be honest - scrolling through an endless stream of headlines can feel like deja vu on loop. After a while, every story starts to blur, your eyes glaze over, and your brain is begging for something that actually makes you sit up straight.

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  Google Ready To Start Human Trials Of Its AI-Designed Drugs

  Google DeepMind's drug discovery company, Isomorphic Labs, is gearing up to launch the human trials of its AI-designed drugs.

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  Elon Musk's X To Deploy AI To Write Community Notes, Speed Up Fact-Checking

  Elon Musk's X will start to publish Community Notes written by artificial intelligence agents, a move to increase the speed of the social network's fact-checking product and expand it to reach more people.

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  Runway Unveils Game World, an AI Platform That Lets Users Generate Video Games

  Runway, a video-focused artificial intelligence (AI) startup, unveiled its new gaming-focused offering last week. Dubbed Game World, a microsite for the platform is currently live, although users will have to wait a little before they can play the games. As per a report, the New York-based AI firm plans to start with text and image-based gaming exp...

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  Opinion | What If Trump Has Just Started Another 'Forever War'?

  Khamenei's political legitimacy rests on his ability to stand up to the 'Great Satan', the US. While America may not be targeting the regime directly, these attacks are a challenge to him, which he won't be able to let go of without a response