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Australia’s decision to recognize a Palestinian state at the U.N. General Assembly next month was applauded Wednesday by the Hamas terrorist group, with a top official praising the “courageous” decision made by left-wing Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. Hamas co-founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef set out his delight in a statement to The Sydney Morning Herald and The Melbourne Age: This position reflects political courage and a commitment to the values of justice and the right of peoples to self-determination. We call on all countries, especially those that believe in freedom and human dignity, to follow Australia’s example and translate their positions into practical steps…
The founder of a powerful artificial intelligence system that could be set to replace human workers in the entertainment industry is predicting a “radically different” world for content creation thanks to the introduction of AI tools. In a recent interview with The Ankler, the co-founder of the generative AI system Runway, Cristóbal Valenzuela, said AI will completely change the way music, TV, streaming, and movies are made, and it will happen in the next few years, not in the far-flung future. Valenzuela’s system is already being used by several top studios and is set to be adopted by most of…
A federal court on Tuesday ruled that Arkansas can enforce its ban on sex changes for minors, citing the Supreme Court’s June ruling upholding a similar law in Tennessee. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ultimately reversed a lower court decision that struck down the 2021 law, which was the first of its kind in the nation. Arkansas’s Save Adolescents From Experimentation (SAFE) Act, enacted by the state legislature over the governor’s veto, bars sex change drugs and surgeries for individuals under 18 years old and prohibits health care professionals from referring minors for those procedures. Four families…
Credit: U.S. Department of State Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed accusations that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. “If we had wanted to commit genocide, it would have taken exactly one afternoon,” Netanyahu said, as quoted in Times of Israel. The remark was part of a heated defense against claims that Israeli forces are deliberately starving the Gaza Strip into submission, an accusation Tel Aviv has dismissed as outright false. Netanyahu has spent recent weeks in rapid-fire briefings with foreign journalists, determined to dismantle the growing global narrative pushed by the United Nations, pro-Palestinian NGOs, and legacy media outlets.…
AP — Russian hackers are likely behind suspected sabotage at a dam in Norway in April which affected water flows, police officials told Norwegian media Wednesday. The director of the Norwegian Police Security Service, Beate Gangås, warned cyberattacks are increasingly being carried out against Western nations to stoke fear and unrest. AP has plotted more than 70 incidents on a map tracking a campaign of disruption across Europe blamed on Russia which Western officials have described as “reckless.” Since the invasion of Ukraine, Western officials have accused Russia and its proxies of staging dozens of attacks and other incidents ranging…
The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) has canceled a documentary about the October 7, 2023, terror attack, ostensibly because of concerns that Hamas might have copyright claims to footage it of its murders. Hamas broadcast footage of its own atrocities while they took place, a unique form of psychological warfare designed to inflict trauma on Israelis and to encourage its supporters among Palestinians in Gaza and abroad. There is no conceivable way that it could advance legal claims to copyright in a western court, especially as its footage has become part of the public record, but the issue provided TIFF…
President Donald Trump visits the Kennedy Center to announce this year’s honorees on Wednesday, August 13. Trump has worked to restore the reputation of the Kennedy Center since returning to the White House, both as a venue for great art instead of activism and renovating the actual building. Acting President and Executive Director of the Kennedy Center Richard Grenell posted on Tuesday that the president “saved the Kennedy Center”: Read the full article here
An extreme heatwave with temperatures topping 40 degrees C has forced thousands to evacuate across the continent Record-breaking heat across Europe has fueled fierce wildfires that have forced thousands of residents to evacuate. Temperatures hit well beyond 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees F) in some areas on Wednesday.Extreme heat returned to the continent this week after a brief respite. Earlier this summer, two powerful heatwaves shattered temperature records, with days of unrelenting heat impacting public health, agriculture, and energy systems across the continent.Footage obtained by RT shows firefighters, particularly in Spain, Italy, Montenegro, and Greece, battling roaring wildfires. In Spain…
A federal appeals court on Wednesday reversed a district court’s order and allowed President Trump to cut billions of foreign aid payments that Congress already approved. A three-judge panel on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals in a 2-1 ruling overruled a lower court’s order that blocked Trump from cutting billions of dollars to USAID. The three judges included: Majority: Karen Henderson (George H.W. Bush), Gregory Katsas (Trump), and dissent: Florence Pan (Biden). Fox News reported: A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that the Trump administration can slash up to roughly $2 billion in foreign aid payments that it halted…
Palestine-coloured keffiyeh-wearing activists protested against U.S. Vice President JD Vance having chosen England for his summer vacation, as the VP meets with British political leaders including Nigel Farage and Robert Jenrick. “Around 60” people from the ‘Stop Trump Coalition’, despite the name a catch-all leftist cause group, turned out in Charlbury in England’s rural Cotswolds on Tuesday to protest U.S. Vice President JD Vance who is holidaying nearby. Anger at President Donald Trump’s policy on Israel and Gaza dominates among the protesters in reports by the Agence France-Presse and Guardian. Another strain of concern was upset over Trump’s anti-mass migration policies, somewhat…