BRUSSELS, Belgium - EU member states and lawmakers clinched a deal on Friday on how to draft "historic" rules regulating artificial intelligence models such as ChatGPT -- after 36 hours of negotiations. Meeting in Brussels, negotiators nailed down curbs on how AI can be used in Europe, which...
UNITED NATIONS, United States - The United Nations Security Council met behind closed doors Friday on the fast-escalating row between South American neighbors Venezuela and Guyana over a disputed oil-rich region. The new map of Venezuela with the incorporation of Guyana Essequiba is pictured...
PARIS, France - Livestock is responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions caused by humans and its impact will only increase as meat consumption rises, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization said Friday. To reduce emissions, the Rome-based agency in a report called for improving...
WASHINGTON, United States - The United States will have its first high-speed train -- between Los Angeles and Las Vegas -- in 2028, the Biden administration said Friday as it unveiled a series of major rail investments. President Joe Biden This project called Brightline West, from the name of...
MOSCOW, Russia - Russia opened an investigation Friday after a passenger aircraft was forced to land due to a technical malfunction, the latest incident to highlight safety concerns in Moscow's aviation industry. Sanctions over the conflict in Ukraine have effectively cut Russia off from...
BEIJING, China - President Xi Jinping said that China's economic recovery is "still at a critical stage", state broadcaster CCTV reported Friday, as sluggish domestic activity and property sector woes drag on a post-pandemic rebound. This handout photo taken and released by the European...
PARIS, France - French President Emmanuel Macron promised on Friday that the restoration of Paris's Notre Dame Cathedral, badly damaged by fire in 2019, would be completed in time for its planned reopening next December. Workers operate in the nave of the Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral on the...
MEXICO City, Mexico -The United States and Mexico plan to form a working group on foreign investment screening to guard against national security threats, officials said Thursday, as Washington pushes to shift supply chains toward trusted partners. US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen (L)...
WASHINGTON, United States - A retired US police chief was sentenced on Thursday in Washington to more than 11 years in prison over his participation in the January 6, 2021 assault on the US Capitol. Alan Hostetter, 59, was convicted of four felonies in July including conspiracy to obstruct an...
WASHINGTON, United States - US President Joe Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Thursday it was "critical" to protect civilians in Gaza and said much more aid must be allowed in, the White House said. President Joe Biden Biden, who was speaking by telephone to Netanyahu for...
LONDON, United Kingdom - The UK government and the United States on Thursday accused Russian security services of engaging in a sustained cyber-espionage campaign against top politicians, journalists and NGOs. Russia has been suspected of meddling in UK politics before, including the divisive...
WASHINGTON, United States - Top US diplomat Antony Blinken on Thursday welcomed an Israeli investigation into a strike that killed a journalist and wounded six others on October 13 in southern Lebanon. This picture provided courtesy of the Associated Press shows AFP cameraman Dylan Collins...
