China’s DeepSeek causes rout among AI-linked stocks Shock to financial markets comes from Chinese firm whose AI app it says was made at a fraction of US AI models. DeepSeek’s disruption rocked stock markets globally [File: Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP] Published On 27 Jan 202527 Jan 2025 Wall Street’s superstars are tumbling as a competitor from China…
‘Branded’: Satellite images show Star of David carved into Gaza The symbol, apparently created by Israeli tanks, can be seen from space in the Palestinian enclave. A satellite image shows a Star of David etched into the ground in Beit Hanoon in northern Gaza[Google Maps] Published On 27 Jan 202527 Jan 2025 Zooming in on…
Israel says 8 of 33 on Hamas list of captives to be freed are already dead Israel says next release of captives will take place on Thursday, followed by another on Saturday. Displaced Palestinians run for cover amid warning shots fired by the Israeli army as they head towards the Netzarim Corridor from the southern…
Inside Story Is the deportation dispute between Colombia and the US really over? Furious row defused after US President Donald Trump’s threat of sanctions over migration. An explosive diplomatic dispute had broken out between the United States and Colombia over the deportation of unauthorised immigrants on military planes. It has been quickly defused for now,…
Israel forces kill two in south Lebanon as displaced people try to return Seventeen people also wounded a day after Israeli forces killed 24 people in south Lebanon following delayed withdrawal. People inspect damage from the war between Israel and Hezbollah in the southern Lebanese village of Aita al-Shaab [Mahmoud Zayyat/ AFP] Published On 27…
In Pictures Residents flee Goma as M23 rebels enter DRC’s largest eastern city Fighting in and around the city has escalated despite calls from the UN Security Council for the rebels to withdraw. People displaced by the fighting with M23 rebels make their way to the centre of Goma in the Democratic Republic of the…
The M23 armed rebel group said it has captured the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s eastern city of Goma on Monday.
France says EU will lift some sanctions on Syria after al-Assad’s fall European countries say they are eager to help reconstruct the war-ravaged country and build bridges with its new leaders. People sell produce at a market in Damascus after the ousting of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad [File: Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters] Published On 27 Jan 202527…
EXPLAINER Rwanda-DRC tension: Have rebels taken control of Congolese city? What next? M23 fighters have been pressing to capture the key city of Goma for months and intensified their offensives in recent days. A UN peacekeeping armoured personnel carrier burns during clashes with M23 rebels outside Goma, DRC, on January 25, 2025 [Moses Sawasawa/AP] By Shola…
California rains help douse wildfires but risk toxic runoff, mudslides Expert warns of ‘fairly high danger of mud, debris flows’ as crews work to put out final pockets of LA-area blazes. Plumes of smoke caused by the Hughes fire rise over Castaic, California [File: Ethan Swope/AP Photo] Published On 27 Jan 202527 Jan 2025 Rains…