By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press
HARTFORD (AP) — The Connecticut Senate pressed ahead Wednesday with one of the first major legislative proposals in the U.S. to rein in bias in artificial intelligence decision-making and protect people from harm, including manufactured videos or ...
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia on Wednesday vetoed a U.N. resolution sponsored by the United States and Japan calling on all nations to prevent a dangerous nuclear arms race in outer space, calling it "a dirty spectacle" that cherry picks weapons of mass ...
By JACK JEFFERY and JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press
JERUSALEM (AP) — Hamas released a hostage video on Wednesday showing a well-known Israeli-American man who was among scores of people abducted by the militants in the attack that ignited the war in Gaza.
The video was the first sign of ...
LONDON (AP) — Two military horses that bolted and ran miles through the streets of London after being spooked by construction noise and tossing their riders were in a serious condition and required operations, a British government official said Thursday.
The animals were among a group of ...
By ERICK KAGLAN Associated Press
LOME, Togo (AP) — Authorities in Togo have repressed the media and prevented civilians from gathering to protest peacefully, Amnesty International said in a report published Wednesday, ahead of parliamentary elections scheduled to take place at the end of ...
By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian officials on Wednesday expressed thanks for $61 billion in new U.S. military aid that threw Kyiv's armed forces a lifeline in their more than two-year war with Russia, even though the supplies aren't expected to have an ...
By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez denied corruption allegations against his wife but said he will consider resigning after the launch Wednesday of a judicial investigation into accusations by a right-wing legal platform that she ...
By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — It's been 434 days since the family of imprisoned Belarusian opposition figure Maria Kolesnikova heard from her, her relatives said Wednesday, on the activist's 42nd birthday.
Kolesnikova, who is serving 11 years in prison for ...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Iran lashed out at Argentina on Wednesday after the South American country sought the arrest of Iran's Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi over his alleged involvement in the deadly 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish community center.
Without mentioning Vahidi by ...
By VANESSA GERA Associated Press
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's prosecutor general told the parliament on Wednesday that powerful Pegasus spyware was used against hundreds of people during the former government in Poland, among them elected officials.
Adam Bodnar told lawmakers that he ...
By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Botswana's foreign minister said his country had been approached by the U.K. to take some of what he called their "unwanted immigrants" but declined the request.
Lemogang Kwape's comments in a telephone interview with South ...
By NINIEK KARMINI and FADLAN SYAM Associated Press
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia's electoral commission formally declared Prabowo Subianto president-elect in a ceremony on Wednesday, after the country's highest court rejected challenges to his landslide victory lodged by two losing ...
By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer
LONDON (AP) — British competition regulators said Wednesday they'll scrutinize recent artificial intelligence deals by Microsoft and Amazon over concerns that the moves could thwart competition in the AI industry.
The Competition and Markets Authority ...
By KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES Associated Press
SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Voters in North Macedonia were casting ballots Wednesday for a president they hope will oversee the country's long-anticipated entry into the European Union,
The small Balkan country has orbited the EU for nearly two ...
By JILL LAWLESS and SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A big, new package of U.S. military aid will help Ukraine avoid defeat in its war with Russia. Winning will still be a long slog.
The arms and ammunition in the $61 billion military aid package should enable Ukraine to ...
By MARK BAKER and ROD McGUIRK Associated Press
SYDNEY (AP) — Australian police arrested seven teenagers accused of following a violent extremist ideology in raids across Sydney on Wednesday, as a judge extended a ban on social media platform X sharing video of a knife attack on a bishop ...
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press
TOKYO (AP) — Japan's first moon lander has survived a third freezing lunar night, Japan's space agency said Wednesday after receiving an image from the device three months after it landed on the moon.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said the lunar ...
By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Raising their textbooks and diplomas and singing the national anthem, hundreds of thousands of Argentines filled the streets of Buenos Aires and other cities on Tuesday to demand increased funding for the country's public ...
By LORNE COOK Associated Press
BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union auditors said on Wednesday that they are unable to establish whether some of the billions of euros the bloc has given to Turkey to help it cope with Syrian refugees is actually having any impact.
Under a deal concluded between ...
By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press
ROME (AP) — Britain's home secretary on Tuesday touted Britain's migrant deportation deal with Rwanda as a "new and creative" deterrent to an old and growing problem. But he said he took seriously criticism by the U.N. refugee agency that it violates ...