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Israel has destroyed multiple buildings in the occupied West Bank’s Jenin refugee camp, hours after its forces killed a 73-year-old man, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said. At least 20 homes were destroyed in the attack on Sunday, in blasts so powerful they were heard across Jenin and in surrounding towns, Palestinian news agency Wafa reported. The Israeli military confirmed the attack, saying it had destroyed “several buildings” in Jenin that “were used as terrorist infrastructure”, without providing evidence. It added that it had killed 50 Palestinian fighters in the West Bank since mid-January. In a separate incident in Arroub, in the southern West Bank, the Israeli army killed a 27-year-old man, named as Mohammed Amjad Hadoush, the Palestinian Health Ministry and the Palestinian Red Crescent said. The Israeli military launched a major offensive in the occupied West Bank last month, dubbed “Iron Wall”, focused primarily on attacking Palestinian armed groups from the Jenin...

President Donald Trump announced broad tariffs Saturday on major US trading partners Canada, Mexico and China, citing a "major threat" from illegal immigration and drugs — a move that sparked promises of retaliation. Canadian and Mexican exports to the United States will face a 25% tariff starting Tuesday, although energy resources from Canada will have a lower 10% levy. Goods from China, which already face various rates of duties, will see an additional 10% tariff, said Trump. The announcement threatens upheaval across supply chains, from energy to automobiles to food. Trump invoked the International Emergency Economic Powers Act in imposing the tariffs, with the White House saying "the extraordinary threat posed by illegal aliens and drugs, including deadly fentanyl, constitutes a national emergency." The aim is to hold all three countries "accountable to their promises of halting illegal immigration and stopping poisonous fentanyl and other drugs from...

The Palestinian group Hamas has released three Israeli captives in two separate handovers in exchange for the release of 183 Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails, in the latest stage of a gradual exchange under a ceasefire deal reached after 15 months of Israeli attacks on Gaza. French-Israeli dual national Ofer Kalderon and Israeli citizen Yarden Bibas were handed over to the Red Cross in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis on Saturday. Over an hour later, American-Israeli dual national Keith Siegel was handed over to Red Cross officials in Gaza City in the northern part of the enclave. As soon as the three Israeli captives reached Israel, the process to free 183 Palestinian prisoners began in fourth such exchange under the ceasefire deal entered on January 19. At least 73 of these Palestinians had been serving long-time prison terms and lifetime sentences. The first bus carrying a group of 32 Palestinians from Israel’s Ofer prison reached Ramallah in the occupied We...

The United States, in coordination with the Dutch National Police, launched a crackdown against a Pakistan-based network of online marketplaces selling hacking and fraud-enabling tools. The action involved the seizure of 39 domains and their associated servers used by the cybercrime network, read a press release issued by the US Department of Justice on Friday. The hacking tools, according to the affidavit submitted in relation to the seizures, were operated by a group known as Saim Raza alias "HeartSender" which used crime-related websites since at least 2020 "to sell phishing toolkits and other fraud-enabling tools to transnational organised crime groups". These groups, the DOJ adds, used these tools to target numerous victims in the US, resulting in over $3 million in victim losses. With the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Field Office probing the case, it has come to light that the Saim Raza-run websites "operated as marketplaces that advertised...

OpenAI chief Sam Altman on Friday said his high-profile artificial intelligence company is "on the wrong side of history" when it comes to being open about how its technology works. Altman's comments came during an Ask Me Anything session on Reddit where he fielded questions including whether he would consider publishing OpenAI research.Altman replied he was in favour of the idea and that it is a topic of discussion inside San Francisco-based OpenAI. "I personally think we have been on the wrong side of history here and need to figure out a different open source strategy," Altman said. "Not everyone at OpenAI shares this view, and it's also not our current highest priority." Chinese AI newcomer DeepSeek has made headlines for its R1 chatbot's supposed low cost and high performance, but also its claim to be a public-spirited "open-source" project in contrast to closed alternatives from OpenAI and Google. Open source refers to th...

The United States, in coordination with the Dutch National Police, launched a crackdown against a Pakistan-based network of online marketplaces selling hacking and fraud-enabling tools. The action involved the seizure of 39 domains and their associated servers used by the cybercrime network, read a press release issued by the US Department of Justice on Friday. The hacking tools, according to the affidavit submitted in relation to the seizures, were operated by a group known as Saim Raza alias "HeartSender" which used crime-related websites since at least 2020 "to sell phishing toolkits and other fraud-enabling tools to transnational organised crime groups". These groups, the DOJ adds, used these tools to target numerous victims in the US, resulting in over $3 million in victim losses. With the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Field Office probing the case, it has come to light that the Saim Raza-run websites "operated as marketplaces that advertised...