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Deep fear and scepticism as Rachel Reeves prepares for her big Budget moment
Laura KuenssbergPresenter, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg BBC It’s been a long time coming. If you feel like this Budget has been going on for ages, you’d be right. Not just because by one senior MP’s count, 13 – yes, thirteen – different tax proposals have already been floated by the government in advance of the final decisions being made public.…
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Typhoon Kalmaegi slams Vietnam as the Philippines prepares for new storm
DAK LAK, Vietnam (AP) — Typhoon Kalmaegi brought fierce winds and torrential rains to Vietnam on Friday, killing at least five people, flattening homes, blowing off roofs and uprooting trees. In the Philippines, where the storm left at least 204 dead earlier in the week, survivors wept over the coffins of their loved ones and braced for another typhoon. As…
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Zohran Mamdani announces all-female transition team as he prepares for New York mayoralty | Zohran Mamdani
Zohran Mamdani’s incoming administration began taking shape on Wednesday as the New York City mayor-elect announced a transition team to help enact what he called the city’s most ambitious policy platform in a generation, vowing to get right to work when he takes office on 1 January. Speaking at a morning press conference in Queens, the 34-year-old democratic socialist revealed…
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Government shutdown live updates as Senate prepares for 11th vote to fund government
Energy Secretary Chris Wright, speaking at a news conference in Nevada, said a “large majority” of employees at the federal agency that oversees the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile have been furloughed, though he noted that “there is a certain number of mission-critical folks that are still working.” “We have run out of federal funds for federal workers,” Wright said, outlining…
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Telangana prepares to put forth strong arguments in SC
Hyderabad: With the Telangana government’s decision to enhance reservation for Backward Classes to 42 per cent challenged in the Supreme Court, the state government has initiated steps to put forth strong arguments. Deputy chief minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka, ministers Ponnam Prabhakar and Vakiti Srihari, who rushed to Delhi on Sunday night, held talks with senior lawyers Abhishek Manu Singhvi and…
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Japan Prepares First Yen-Backed Stablecoin Amid Global Regulatory Shift
Japan was the first country to establish a regulatory framework for stablecoins. Yet, until now, it has taken a seemingly passive role in the technology, with no blockchain-based representation of its national currency, the yen. That may soon change. After years of quiet infrastructure development, Japan is preparing to launch its first fully collateralized, yen-backed stablecoin later this year. Takashi…
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OpenAI prepares Chromium-based AI browser to take on Google
OpenAI is testing an AI-powered browser that uses Chromium as its underlying engine, and it could debut on macOS first. My sources tell me that OpenAI has already started updating ChatGPT to power the Chrome rival. OpenAI is building an AI-powered tab selection, a new tab page, and a feature that allows the browser to do the browsing for you.…
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Israel prepares to move Palestinians to southern Gaza as Israelis urge mass protest over war
NAHARIYA, Israel (AP) — Israel announced Saturday that it is preparing to move Palestinians from combat zones to southern Gaza as plans move ahead for a military offensive in some of the territory’s most populated areas. The Israeli military body in charge of humanitarian aid to Gaza, COGAT, said the supply of tents to the territory would resume on Sunday.…
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OpenAI prepares new open weight models along with GPT-5
OpenAI isn’t just working on GPT-5. It looks like OpenAI is also preparing to release new open-source weights, living up to its name, “OpenAI.” As spotted on X, two new open-source weights, “gpt-oss-20b” and “gpt-oss-120b,” have been spotted on HuggingFace, which is an AI platform to host models. The models are on HuggingFace ahead of the public release. Typically, companies…
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The Latest: Major media say Gaza staff face starvation as US envoy prepares to host ceasefire talks
Four leading news organizations said Thursday that their journalists in Gaza are facing the threat of starvation as the Israel-Hamas war grinds on, while top U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff was to meet with key negotiators from the Middle East for talks on the latest ceasefire proposal and the release of hostages. “We are desperately concerned for our journalists in Gaza,…
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