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RT’s Steve Sweeney reports on destroyed homes, children’s belongings buried in rubble, and a city living in fear of the next attack Israel has carried out multiple strikes across Lebanon over the past 24 hours, fueling fears that the escalating violence could unravel a fragile two-week ceasefire between the US and Iran.The expanded offensive in Lebanon since March 2 has killed 1,888 people and wounded 6,092 others, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry. It says the April 8 bombardment alone involved “over 100 strikes within minutes,” leaving more than 300 dead and in excess of 1,100 injured.RT’s Steve Sweeney, who,…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell called Wall Street executives to an emergency meeting at Treasury headquarters in Washington this week to address cybersecurity vulnerabilities posed by Anthropic’s latest “Mythos” AI model. Bloomberg reports that senior government officials gathered top banking leaders for an emergency session to discuss potential cyber threats associated with advanced AI technology. The meeting, which took place at the Treasury Department’s Washington headquarters, centered on concerns that Anthropic’s newest model, Mythos, could introduce significant new cybersecurity risks to the financial system. The hastily arranged gathering brought together Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and…
Israeli national Ami Gaydarov, 22, has been charged with participating in an Iran-backed bomb plot to murder a high-ranking Israeli official – most likely former prime minister Naftali Bennett. Gaydarov was arrested in March, but the Israeli judiciary did not give the media permission to report on the case until Thursday. His arrest was the result of a joint investigation by Israel’s Shin Bet domestic intelligence service and the Lahav 433 national crimes unit, which is sometimes known as “Israel’s FBI.” Investigators said Gaydarov, a resident of Haifa, actively sought out Iranian operatives on the Telegram messaging platform to offer…
Former President Joe Biden’s criminal son Hunter Biden is down for a cage match against President Donald Trump’s eldest sons Don Jr. and Eric, making it clear he is “100 percent in.” In a video posted to social media, Biden said left-wing social media commentator Andrew Callaghan was attempting to organize a cage match featuring himself and Trump’s eldest sons. “Hunter Biden here, I just got a call from Andrew Callaghan. He asked me to come out on the Channel 5 carnival tour at the end of the month. I think we start in Phoenix, and then we go to…
Approval rates for asylum have reportedly dropped from around 90% in previous years to 5% Germany has rejected 95% of all new asylum applications from Syrian migrants following a policy reassessment of the Middle Eastern country, according to media reports, citing an official document.The change represents a stark reversal from the peak of the influx in 2014-2015, when recognition rates for Syrians frequently exceeded 90%. Germany emerged as a primary destination for Syrians fleeing war, driven by the open-door policy of then-Chancellor Angela Merkel.The country has since become home to one of the largest Syrian diasporas in Europe, with estimates…
A team of researchers invented a completely fake medical condition called “bixonimania” and published clearly fraudulent papers about it online, then monitored major AI chatbots as they began recommending it as a real illness to people seeking medical advice. Nature reports that a Swedish medical researcher has exposed a troubling vulnerability in artificial intelligence systems by creating a fictional disease that AI chatbots subsequently presented as legitimate medical information to users. The experiment, conducted by Almira Osmanovic Thunström from the University of Gothenburg, revealed how easily large language models can absorb and spread medical misinformation. Bixonimania, a completely fabricated eye condition supposedly…
Officials from Venezuela’s Bolivarian National Police (PNB) on Thursday blocked a peaceful protest that attempted to march towards the Miraflores presidential palace to demand higher wages and pensions from the Venezuelan socialist regime. The police repressed and dispersed the protest using tear gas and riot control tactics, leaving several injured. The nation’s main local press workers union denounced that officers assaulted several journalists covering the protest, robbing them of their equipment and belongings. Thursday’s protest was organized by Venezuelan unions, students, and opposition groups across several of the nation’s main cities. In Caracas’ peaceful protest, reportedly made up by a…
Mexican military forces found a narco-tunnel that was being built connecting Nogales, Sonora, with its sister city in Arizona. The tunnel is connected to the Los Chapitos faction of the Sinaloa Cartel. The raid took place this week in downtown Nogales. According to information released by Mexican authorities, they learned of a house that was being used by Sinaloa Cartel members and began a surveillance operation that provided them with enough information to obtain a search warrant. Mexican military forces raided the place and were able to arrest Luis Fernando Garduno Perez, an operator with the Los Salazar cell of…
A historic statewide election defeat has some Wisconsin Republicans calling for the ouster of state GOP Chair Brian Schimming, which would amount to a dramatic shakeup in a battleground state once dominated by a hyper-effective GOP party machine. Tuesday night’s state Supreme Court race saw liberal judge Chris Taylor trounce conservative appeals court judge Maria Lazar by a margin of more than 20 points. The scope of that defeat in the closely divided swing state — the latest in a string of recent GOP losses — is fueling calls from a growing number of party insiders that the affable Schimming,…
Washington isn’t interested in ending the conflict with Tehran as it benefits from turmoil in the Middle East, Moussa Ibrahim has told RT Iran should not repeat the mistakes of Libya, which paid a heavy price for trusting the West, the North African country’s former information minister, Moussa Ibrahim, has warned ahead of the talks between delegations from Washington and Tehran.The first direct meeting between the sides since the US-Israeli attack on Iran on February 28 is expected to take place in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, on Saturday, according to the White House.The American team will be headed by Vice…