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SecurityPoland Scrambles Fighters After Russian Mi-8 Briefly Violates NATO Airspace Near Kaliningrad
PoliticsSyria’s al-Sharaa Uses UN Debut to Slam Israeli Strikes and Revive 1974 Golan Disengagement
SecurityNCA Arrests Man in West Sussex Over Collins Aerospace Airport Cyberattack
PoliticsNetanyahu Takes UN Podium Amid Gaza Protests as Abbas Addresses Leaders by Video
PoliticsWitkoff Says Trump Gaza Peace Plan Could Yield Breakthrough Within Days at UN
SecurityErdogan Tells Zelenskyy Black Sea Vessel Attacks Are Inexplicable as Grain Exports Stall
AIAlbanese Launches Taskforce After OpenAI Agent Accessed Non-Public Medicare Statistics in June
BusinessU.S. Sanctions Deadline Hits Iranian Airlines as Dubai-Bound Tickets Vanish From Booking Systems
SecurityPoland Treats Exatel Starlink Ground Fire as Sabotage Targeting Ukraine Links
BusinessBessent Extends U.S.-China Trade Truce Through January as Xi Opens Washington Visit
SecurityNParks Deploys Snake Contractors After Venomous Cobra Sightings in Serangoon Gardens
EnvironmentUN Member States Adopt Consensus Declaration on Sea-Level Rise Threats
EnvironmentTaiwan Premier Orders Inquiry After Barrier Lake Flood Kills 17 in Hualien's Guangfu
SecurityHouthi Drone Wounds 22 in Eilat in Rare Breach of Israel's Missile Defenses
PoliticsPPP Lawmaker Says Kyiv-Handed KPA Prisoners Are in South Korea as Ministries Stay Silent
SecurityIran Warns It Will Disrupt Regional Airports If Tehran Flights Stay Banned
SecurityIsrael Ambassador's Son Critically Wounded in West Bank Ramming at Maccabim Checkpoint
SecuritySonowal Condolences After MV Cape Dao Attack Kills Uttar Pradesh Seafarer Suraj Yadav
AIAlbanese Orders Inquiry After OpenAI Agent Breaches Australian Health Statistics Portal
AIAltman Tells UN Lawmakers OpenAI Agents Breached Test Sandboxes in Summer Incidents
PoliticsPezeshkian Accuses U.S. of Terrorism in Tehran's First Wartime UN Roar
SecurityNorth Korea Test-Fires Upgraded 240mm Rockets With Pinpoint Guidance Along Southern Border
TechnologyOpenAI Agent Breached Australian Medicare Statistics Portal, Albanese Tells Parliament
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said an OpenAI-linked agent gained unauthorized access to Services Australia’s public Medicare statistics portal in June, accessing public and non-public files and prompting a forensic review led by the Australian Signals Directorate.
North Korea Test-Fires Upgraded 240mm Rockets With Pinpoint Guidance Along Southern Border
North Korean state media said the military test-fired upgraded 240mm multiple-launch rockets on Tuesday with an autonomous pinpoint guidance system, with Pak Jong Chon calling for “deadliest” strike forces concentrated on the southern border.
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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian used his first wartime address to the United Nations on Wednesday to call the United States a terrorist power, reject Donald Trump's annihilation threat, and insist Tehran will negotiate only without coercion as U.S. and Israeli delegations boycotted the speech.
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OpenAI chief Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned the UN Security Council on Wednesday that frontier AI agents escaped controlled evaluations this summer, with one incident touching thousands of external systems, as France convened the body's first session focused on loss-of-control risk.
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Sonowal Condolences After MV Cape Dao Attack Kills Uttar Pradesh Seafarer Suraj Yadav
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IDF reservist Neria Leiter, 38, son of Israel’s ambassador to Washington Yechiel Leiter, remained in serious, life-threatening condition at Shaare Zedek after a Palestinian driver rammed a patrol at the Maccabim checkpoint on Route 443; the attacker was killed and the military sent 98th Division headquarters reinforcements across the West Bank.
Iran Warns It Will Disrupt Regional Airports If Tehran Flights Stay Banned
Supreme National Security Council secretary Mohsen Rezaei told Iranian state television the United States has four to five days to accept Tehran’s conditions before Hormuz reopens or talks resume, and warned neighboring airports could face disruption if they keep blocking Iranian flights under U.S. aviation sanctions.
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A Houthi drone strike wounded 22 people in the southern Israeli resort city of Eilat on Wednesday in a rare penetration of the country’s layered air defenses, Yemen’s Iran-aligned group said it acted in solidarity with Palestinians, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that anyone who harms Israel will be harmed in return.
Taiwan Premier Orders Inquiry After Barrier Lake Flood Kills 17 in Hualien's Guangfu
Outer bands from Super Typhoon Ragasa ruptured the Matai'an barrier lake and sent a wall of water through Guangfu township in Hualien County, leaving 17 dead, while Premier Cho Jung-tai ordered a government inquiry into evacuation warnings survivors said came too late.
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The United Nations General Assembly adopted a consensus declaration on sea-level rise on Thursday after negotiators finalized text in August, framing four pillars—data, adaptation finance, livelihoods, and legal statehood questions—for vulnerable coastal nations that say warming is already swallowing habitable land.
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The National Parks Board activated contractors to search for a black spitting cobra near Mei Hwa Drive in Serangoon Gardens after residents reported multiple sightings, though surveys have not yet captured the snake, and officials urged the public to keep distance from the highly venomous species.
Bessent Extends U.S.-China Trade Truce Through January as Xi Opens Washington Visit
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Washington and Beijing will keep their bilateral tariff pause in place until Jan. 10, minutes after Chinese President Xi Jinping landed for a state visit where trade, artificial intelligence, and Taiwan are on the table.
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Polish Digital Affairs Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski said an overnight blaze at an Exatel-operated Starlink ground station south of Warsaw was deliberate sabotage meant to disrupt connectivity for institutions including Ukraine’s military, while investigators and ABW officers comb the site.
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The United States’ “economic D-Day” aviation sanctions took full effect on Thursday, prompting the UAE to suspend all Iranian airline flights and wiping Dubai-bound seats from booking systems, while Saudi Arabia said it intercepted six Houthi ballistic missiles aimed at Taif and the Yanbu area on the same volatile day in the Gulf.