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Poland has called on all its nationals in Iran to depart immediately, warning that evacuation options could become unavailable within hours as regional tensions intensify. Prime Minister Donald Tusk urged Polish citizens to leave without delay and advised against any travel to Iran, citing what he described as a credible risk of imminent military......
The number of days marked by hot, dry and windy conditions that fuel extreme wildfires has nearly tripled globally over the past 45 years, with researchers concluding that human driven climate change accounts for more than half of the increase. A study published Wednesday in Science Advances reports that between 1979 and 1993 the world experienced......
The White House on Wednesday pressed Iran to reach a nuclear agreement with President Donald Trump as the United States continues to reinforce its military presence in the Middle East, raising the prospect of military action if diplomacy fails. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters that diplomacy remains the president’s......
Russia said on February 18 that Western sanctions are preventing the restoration of full economic ties with the United States, with the Kremlin confirming interest in a sweeping $12 trillion cooperation proposal reportedly presented to the Trump administration. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters that sanctions are hindering......
Michael Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar, cofounders of Atlassian, have seen an estimated $7.2 billion wiped from their combined fortunes this year as investor anxiety over artificial intelligence disrupts global software stocks. The losses represent roughly one third of their collective wealth in 2026, placing the pair among the biggest......
A fire broke out Wednesday in Parand, a city in Tehran province, prompting security concerns because of its proximity to military facilities, according to local media reports. The incident comes amid heightened tensions between Iran and the United States as nuclear negotiations continue in Geneva. Iran’s state broadcaster IRIB said......
US Energy Secretary Chris Wright called on the International Energy Agency to abandon its climate related work during the organization’s ministerial meeting in Paris on Wednesday, escalating tensions that could lead Washington to withdraw from the influential global energy body. Speaking at the biennial gathering of energy ministers......
BitMEX cofounder Arthur Hayes has warned that artificial intelligence driven job losses could spark a major credit crisis in the United States, arguing that recent Bitcoin price movements are signaling mounting stress in the financial system. In an essay titled “This Is Fine” published on his Substack, Hayes said Bitcoin’s......
Arthur Mensch, chief executive of Mistral AI, said more than half of today’s enterprise software spending could migrate to artificial intelligence driven solutions, offering one of the clearest forecasts yet on how deeply AI may reshape the software industry. Speaking at the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi on Wednesday, Mensch told......
Russia’s oil sector is entering its deepest crisis in decades as Western sanctions drive export prices sharply lower and push smaller producers toward insolvency, threatening a central pillar of the Kremlin’s wartime economy. State lender VTB is preparing to file for bankruptcy against First Oil, a company owned by former Sibur......
Foreign ministers gathered Wednesday at the United Nations for a Security Council ministerial session on the situation in Palestine, as international pressure mounts over recent Israeli measures expanding control in the occupied West Bank. The meeting, chaired by British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper in her capacity as president of the......
Rising temperatures and increasingly extreme weather linked to climate change are posing growing risks to global coffee and wheat production, according to two new studies published this week, with potential consequences for farmers and consumers alike. An analysis released Wednesday by Climate Central found that the world’s main coffee......
Two years after Broadcom completed its $61 billion acquisition of VMware, the large scale customer exodus many had predicted has not materialized. Instead, companies are gradually scaling back their reliance on VMware as they reassess long term infrastructure strategies. A new report released by CloudBolt Software shows that 86 percent of......
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