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  Seven miners from a group of 23 trapped inside a collapsed Colombian gold mine since Monday night have been rescued, authorities said on Wednesday. The mud-covered miners emerged one by one from the shaft 80 meters (262 feet) underground where they had been trapped, a video posted on X by Colombia’s mining agency showed. […]

  Alibaba announced on Wednesday a “milestone collaboration” in AI tech with US chip giant Nvidia that the Chinese company said will accelerate its development of humanoid robots. The news came as Alibaba’s shares soared more than nine percent in Hong Kong after chief executive Eddie Wu unveiled plans to further ramp up spending on […]

  A Bali hospital denied on Wednesday allegations it was involved in organ theft, a director said, after the body of a young Australian who died on the Indonesian resort island was repatriated without his heart. Queensland man Byron Haddow was found dead in the plunge pool of his Bali villa earlier this year while […]

  The United Nations called Wednesday for an investigation into alleged drone attacks against a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, as Brussels slammed the strikes as unacceptable and Italy sent a navy frigate to assist. The Global Sumud Flotilla blamed Israel for the more than a dozen explosions heard around the flotilla late Tuesday off Greece, with […]

  President Donald Trump appeared to laugh it off Tuesday when an escalator and a teleprompter both malfunctioned during his United Nations visit — but for US officials it was no laughing matter. The White House said an investigation had been launched into whether the moving stairway was stopped on purpose to humiliate the US […]

  Barcelona star Lamine Yamal will be driven to greater heights after being beaten to the Ballon d’Or by Ousmane Dembele, the club’s coach Hansi Flick said Wednesday. The 18-year-old winger finished second behind Paris Saint-Germain attacker Dembele at the glitzy gala in Paris on Monday in the battle to be crowned the world’s best […]

  Iran’s president repeated Tuesday that his country is not seeking nuclear weapons, after military strikes by Israel and the United States and impending sanctions triggered by European powers. “I hereby declare once more before this assembly that Iran has never sought and will never seek to build a nuclear bomb,” President Masoud Pezeshkian told […]

  A consortium led by TotalEnergies has won a tender to develop and build a 1.5-gigawatt wind farm off the coast of Normandy, marking France’s largest such project to date. The deal, according to a Reuters report, allows France, which lags behind European Union renewable energy targets, to inch towards its goal for offshore wind […]

  One person was killed and two wounded in a shooting on Wednesday at a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in Dallas, police said. The suspected gunman, who opened fire from an adjacent building, is dead, the Dallas police department said in a post on X. AFP The post One Dead, Two […]

Iranian officials at the UN summit this week won’t be able to shop in New York after the US government barred them from purchasing everything from bulk household goods to expensive watches. The restrictions on the visiting Iranians were described by a State Department spokesman as “maximum pressure.” “We will not allow the Iranian regime […]

November 2024 was supposed to be the grand reopening of a rebuilt and resplendent Camp Nou for Barcelona’s 125th anniversary, but 10 months later the stadium is still shuttered amid reconstruction chaos. When Barcelona pulled the curtain down on their grand but decaying Camp Nou stadium in May 2023, they anticipated being able to reopen […]

  President Bola Tinubu has described Nigeria’s bid to host the 2030 Commonwealth Games as a “dream” that must become reality. In a post on his official X account on Wednesday, Tinubu noted that no African nation has ever hosted the Games. He said bringing the 2030 edition to Nigeria would send a powerful message […]