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Trump takes surprise White House roof walk to view new projects underway

Reporters, tipped off by the out-of-the-ordinary positioning of snipers above the Oval Office, shouted questions from below. One called out: Sir, why are you on the roof

US slams use of AI to personalise airline ticket prices, would investigate

Delta Air Lines told lawmakers it will not and has not used AI to set prices for individual consumers

Elon Musk, Tesla sued by shareholders over concealing Robotaxi risks

Tesla and Elon Musk face a shareholder lawsuit alleging fraud for hiding safety risks linked to Robotaxi and self-driving tech, following a flawed public test and a $68 bn drop in market value

Israel mulls full Gaza control despite military and public concerns

Some Israeli military leaders have expressed reservations, the official said, while the plan would likely face considerable opposition

OpenAI, Google, Anthropic win US govt approval for civilian AI contracts

GSA officials said the models from the three companies - OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini and Anthropic's Claude - were evaluated by several performance and security measures

Trump vows 'very substantial' tariff hike on India within 24 hours

Trump threatens to raise tariffs on Indian imports 'very substantially', citing Russian oil purchases; India calls criticism unfair, defends energy ties with Moscow

Putin doubts potency of Trump's ultimatum to end the war: Report

Putin's goal is to fully capture the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson, which Russia has claimed as its own, and then to talk about a peace pact, one of the sources said

Iran appoints moderate leader Ali Larijani as top security council chief

Larijani, 67, a moderate conservative, has served as an adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in recent years. Khamenei holds the final say on all state matters in the country

Bangladesh to hold next parliamentary polls in February 2026: Yunus

Yunus made the comments during a televised address to the nation on the first anniversary of last year's student-led protest movement

US trade deficit narrows to $60.2 bn in June as imports decline sharply

Imports of consumer goods fell to the lowest level since September 2020, and industrial supplies and motor vehicles were also down. Meantime, inbound shipments of capital equipment rose

Nato to coordinate arms deliveries to Ukraine, most will be bought from US

Two deliveries are expected this month. The equipment that will be provided is based on Ukraine's priority needs on the battlefield. NATO allies then locate the weapons and ammunition and send them on

Supported by Brics, like-minded allies: Russia amid Trump's tariff threats

Russia's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova accused the US of being unable to accept the erosion of its dominance in an emerging multipolar international order

Nuclear reactor on the Moon? Nasa's Sean Duffy has an elaborate plan

Acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy sees the plan to build a nuclear reactor on the Moon as a new space race, especially given China's and Russia's growing ambitions in space

Indian-origin taxi driver attacked in Ireland, police probe violent assault

Lakhvir Singh, in his 40s, told local media that he picked up two young men in their 20s on Friday night and dropped them at Poppintree, in the Ballymun suburb of Dublin

The world nearly beat polio, but missteps and fake records revived it

For the past decade, Sughra Ayaz has travelled door to door in southeastern Pakistan, pleading with parents to allow children to be vaccinated against polio to wipe out the paralytic disease.

Mizuho Bank to hire Mashreqbank PSC's corporate banking India head

Devendra Sharma will be a Mumbai-based managing director at the Japanese lender and look after the bank's business in western India

TSMC fires staff, launches legal action over suspected 2-nm data leak

Chipmaking giant reports unauthorised access to sensitive technology; Taiwan authorities investigating under National Security Act

Why is Russia ditching 1987 INF Treaty and what is Trump's role in it?

Citing a statement from Russia's foreign ministry, the report said that Moscow believes that the conditions required to maintain the 1987 INF Treaty with the US have disappeared

Trump sons' employer hoped to gain from Fed grants; later reverses stance

The New America Acquisition I Corp, which had hired Trump's two sons, has backtracked on a statement in its document that said the company hoped to benefit from grants offered by Donald Trump

3 injured as California wildfire rages out of control, threatens homes

The blaze threatened about 450 structures and forced the closure of the highway in both directions east of Santa Maria, a city of about 110,000 people in Santa Barbara County