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Emirati diplomat with Trump's letter meets with Iran's foreign minister

Iranian state television showed Emirati official Anwar Gargash meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in Tehran, Iran's capital

One-month tariff relief likely to be extended to all USMCA-compliant goods

US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said he is hopeful the president will announcement that extension on Thursday.

AI's 'hedonistic' machines earn Barto, Sutton top computer science prize

Two pioneers in the field of reinforcement learning, Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton, are the winners of this year's A M Turing Award, the tech world's equivalent of the Nobel Prize

Aramco reports $106 bn profit in 2024, down 12% on lower oil prices

Aramco has a market value of $1.74 trillion, making it the world's sixth-most valuable company behind Apple, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Amazon and Alphabet, which owns Google

Wall Street's losing streak deepens as Donald Trump's tariffs kick in

Anxiety over tariffs is also bleeding into the corporate side of the economic equation

Pope Francis faces new breathing issues, back on noninvasive ventilation

Francis had inhaled "copious" amounts of mucus in another setback in what has become a more than two-week battle to overcome a complex respiratory infection and pneumonia

Driver rams car into crowd in western Germany; one dead, many injured

Police spokesperson Stefan Wilhelm told n-tv television that an "incident" occurred at around 12:15 pm in the Paradeplatz area of downtown Mannheim that triggered a large police deployment

US, Russia conclude first talks without Ukraine as Moscow makes new demand

Talks in the Saudi capital underscored the rapid pace of US efforts to halt the conflict, less than a month after Trump took office and six days after he spoke by phone to Putin

Vance asks Europe to stem illegal migration; Russia strikes Chernobyl

Vance started his day in Munich meeting separately with Steinmeier, Nato Secretary-General Mark Rutte, and British Foreign Secretary David Lammy

USAID staff locked out of Washington headquarters after shutdown order

The developments come after Musk, who's leading an extraordinary civilian review of the federal government with the Republican president's agreement

China denounces US tariffs, says they are open for talks to avoid conflict

Beijing's Commerce and Finance ministries said China will challenge the decision before the World Trade Organization and take unspecified "countermeasures"

Rescue teams remove 1,500 tons of oil from grounded Russian tanker

Emergency Situations Minister Alexander Kurenkov announced that the damaged tanker would be drained earlier this month but workers found it was continuing to leak oil into the water

Cyclone Chido death toll in Mayotte reaches 'several hundred': Official

The tropical cyclone blew through the southeastern Indian Ocean, also affecting the nearby islands of Comoros and Madagascar. Mayotte was directly in the path of the cyclone and suffered extensive

Merkel says she felt sorrow at Trump's win, recalls awkward non-handshake

Merkel worked with four American presidents while she was German chancellor. She was in power throughout Trump's first term - easily the most tense period for German-US relations of her 16-year tenure

Ukraine's Parliament cancels session after Russia fired hypersonic missile

Russian troops also struck Sumy with Shahed drones overnight, killing two people and injuring 12 more, the regional administration said Friday morning

More aid workers have been killed in 2024 than in any other year, says UN

Bloodshed in the Middle East has been the single-biggest cause of the 281 deaths among humanitarians globally this year

China expanding visa-free entry to more countries in bid to boost economy

Starting Nov 30, travellers from Bulgaria, Romania, Malta, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Estonia, Latvia and Japan will be able to enter China for up to 30 days without a visa

Hush money case: Donald Trump's lawyers urge judge to dismiss conviction

Trump was convicted in May of falsifying business records to cover up a scheme to influence the 2016 election by paying hush money to squelch a story of extramarital sex

Early US election takeaways: Next president will lead fractured nation

Whether Harris or Trump ends up behind the Resolute Desk, the 47th president will lead a nation with deepening political and cultural fissures and a worried electorate

Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 awarded to John Hopfield, Geoffrey Hinton

Hopfield's research is carried out at Princeton University and Hinton works at the University of Toronto