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AI, data center alarms dominate Congressional Black Caucus week in Washington
AI interests pro and con turned out for the Congressional Black Caucus's annual gathering in Washington as the topics — plus redistricting concerns — dominated.
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AI-pocalypse? Tech leaders, politicians clash over development slowdown
Insider warnings, hacking scares during tests and a US-China race have split the industry and Washington.
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Drones and snipers: Trump announces a "military complex" in the arch of Washington's triumph
American President Donald Trump revealed that the bow of the triumph he plans to build in Washington D.C. will serve as a "first-class military complex," with the capacity to house drones and snipers, as well as to store ammunition. The transformation of the monument was decided "at the express request of the Armed Forces" and for reasons of national security, added the Republican, which pursues a controversial reform of the urban landscape of the American capital.
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Trump Announces Washington's Huge Arch of Success Will Be a Military Complex with Drones and Sniper
The US President gives a new justification to the project after conservationists and architects criticized that it breaks the harmony of the city and ends with historical views
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Trump says monumental arch in Washington, DC will also be military complex
Plans for the arch had been met with opposition along with other projects by the US president to reshape capital city.
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Middle East: Washington fears "rapid escalation" after attack on Ryad
On Saturday, 19 September, the United States warned of a "rapid escalation" of hostilities in the Middle East in the face of attacks by the Yemeni Houthis against Saudi Arabia, whose capital was targeted for the first time in months by these pro-Iranian fighters. We talk about this with our guest David Rigoulet-Roze, editor of the magazine "Orients Stratégiques".
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Israel orders blockades and "extensive" raids in the West Bank after a deadly shooting
After an Israeli settler was killed by a Palestinian attacker near the Neve Tzuf settlement, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged the Army to close down villages in the occupied West Bank centre and prepare incursions to stop Palestinians. In addition, in another incident, Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian driver, who was accused of an alleged attempt to run over. Meanwhile, tensions remain high in the Middle East over new threats from Iran and attacks by the Huti against Saudi Arabia.
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Middle East: Washington fears "rapid escalation" after Houthis attack on Riyadh
The United States warned on Saturday that Iran-supported hostilities between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis could "know a rapid escalation" after an attack on the Saudi capital for the first time in months. Yemeni rebels claimed responsibility for two attacks with missiles and drones.
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The United States turns its back on Saudi Arabia in the midst of the Huti offensive
Washington Obtains a Decade-old Alliance and Defeat Involving in a New Front in the Red Sea as Yemeni Rebels Press the Arab Kingdom
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The citizen's reactions to the US security agreement. United States for Greenland
The United States, Denmark and Greenland signed a security agreement that gives Washington a permanent role in defending the Arctic island, with the aim of curbing the influence of Russia and China and strengthening security in the North Atlantic. Citizens expressed concern about the impact of the treatment on sovereignty.
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What does the US security agreement in Greenland mean?
Donald Trump announced a security agreement with Denmark and Greenland that grants the United States permanent control over the defence of the Arctic island. What are the implications? How does it differ from the defence pact that already exists between Washington and Copenhagen? Judith Ros, a polytechnist specializing in national relations, who is currently studying his doctorate on Greenland and the European Union, addresses the issue in France 24.
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United States: Protests against Kennedy Center Demolition Threat in Washington · Global Voices
Hundreds of protesters surrounded the Kennedy Center in Washington to reject the demolition threat launched by Donald Trump, who demanded that the cultural compound bear his name. The topic took a stir after a photograph was made public, in which the American president is seen watching a sign that reports the demolition of the center.
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Millions without power in Cuba as electrical grid collapses again
Cuba was plunged into its seventh massive blackout of the year on Friday. The island of over nine million people endures constant power cuts due to the poor state of its aging thermoelectric plants – but the situation has worsened significantly since January, when Washington imposed a de facto energy blockade on the island. Story by Shirli Sitbon.
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Cuba: New massive power outage, seventh of the year
Cuba suffers on Friday 18 September a further general power outage, the seventh since the beginning of the year, against the background of a serious fuel shortage on the communist island, under pressure from Washington.
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Trump announces that he has obtained "permanent control" over Greenland security
Donald Trump announced on Friday 18 September that he had obtained from Denmark and Greenland a "permanent control" of the security of strategic Arctic territory which, according to Washington, will prevent the opponents of the United States, China and Russia in the lead, from settling there.
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US and Denmark reach deal on Greenland, Trump claims 'permanent control' over island
Not so long ago, inhabitants of Greenland feared that the US was preparing to invade, after US President Donald Trump repeatedly claimed the US wanted to control the Arctic territory. But Trump now says he has struck a deal with Denmark to give Washington "permanent control" over Greenland's security, while ensuring the territory remains firmly in the hands of Denmark. Denmark and Greenland have both hailed the deal, but its exact terms remain unclear. Details by FRANCE 24 correspondent in Washington, Fraser Jackson.
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Trump’s threats to demolish Kennedy Center sparks protest
Protestors gathered outside Washington’s Kennedy Center after President Trump’s plans to close the arts venue.
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Report from Washington: Trump forbids access to CNN, MSNOW and Politics to the White House
Donald Trump, President of the United States, reported through his social network Truth Social on the decision to ban access to the White House by CNN, MSNOW and Political Correspondents, whom he listed as spreading false news. He justified the measure by ensuring that "other false news media" could follow the same path. From Washington, our correspondent Cristóbal Vásquez expands our information.
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Google's Gemini becomes latest AI model to break out and hack computer systems
The disclosure comes as scrutiny over misbehaving artificial intelligence intensifies in Washington and Silicon Valley.
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United States: The Kennedy Center is being demolished?
Photographs of the AFP that show Donald Trump watching a sign that seems to evoke a demolition of the Kennedy Center, Washington's high cultural site that the U.S. president threatens to condemn if his name is not attached to it, make a round of media on Thursday.