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Taiwan says government departments should not use DeepSeek, citing security concerns

31 Jan 2025

TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan’s digital ministry said on Friday that government departments should not use Chinese startup DeepSeek’s artificial intelligence (AI) service, saying that as the product is from China it represents a security concern. Democratically-governed Taiwan has long been wary of Chinese tech given Beijing’s sovereignty claims over the island and its military and …

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Rheinmetall rules out attack after explosion at Spanish munitions factory

31 Jan 2025

BERLIN (Reuters) – German arms manufacturer Rheinmetall said on Friday that there was no evidence to suggest that an explosion at a munitions factory in south-eastern Spain that left six people injured was an attack. “The company sees no evidence of an attack,” Rheinmetall said in response to a request for comment, adding that local …

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Syria turns to intermediaries for oil imports after low interest in tenders, sources say

31 Jan 2025

By Robert Harvey, Ahmad Ghaddar, Enes Tunagur and Jonathan Saul LONDON (Reuters) – Syria is seeking to import oil via local intermediaries after its first post-Assad import tenders garnered little interest from major oil traders due to ongoing sanctions and financial risks, several trade sources told Reuters. Syria’s caretaker government issued tenders to import 4.2 …

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Exclusive-US seeks to block Hezbollah ally from naming Lebanon finance minister, sources say

31 Jan 2025

By Laila Bassam, Maya Gebeily and Samia Nakhoul BEIRUT (Reuters) – Washington is pressuring top Lebanese officials not to allow Hezbollah or its allies to nominate the country’s next finance minister, five people with knowledge of the matter said, in an attempt to limit the Iran-backed group’s sway over the state. The unusually direct U.S. …

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Sweden successfully launched military satellite in August

31 Jan 2025

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Sweden launched its first military communications satellite in August last year, the government said on Friday, the first of more planned military surveillance satellites. The GNA-3 test satellite was launched from California in the U.S. and is operated by the Swedish Armed Forces. A more advanced surveillance satellite is expected to be …

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Ukraine launches new drone attacks on Russian oil refineries

31 Jan 2025

MOSCOW (Reuters) -An oil refinery in Russia’s southern Volgograd region caught fire after an overnight Ukrainian drone attack, but the blaze has now been put out, the regional governor said on Friday. Andrei Bocharov, the governor, said in a statement on the Telegram messaging app that Russian air defences had repelled an attack on his …

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Syria’s Islamist rulers overhaul economy with firings, privatization of state firms

31 Jan 2025

By Riham Alkousaa DAMASCUS (Reuters) – Syria’s new Islamist leaders are undertaking a radical overhaul of the country’s broken economy, including plans to fire a third of all public sector workers and privatising state-run companies dominant during half a century of Assad family rule. The pace of the declared crackdown on waste and corruption, which …

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Israel releases Palestinian prisoners after delay over chaotic hostage handover

31 Jan 2025

By Nidal al-Mughrabi, Emily Rose, Maayan Lubell and Ali Sawafta CAIRO/JERUSALEM/RAMALLAH (Reuters) – Hamas freed three Israeli and five Thai hostages in Gaza on Thursday and Israel released 110 Palestinian prisoners after delaying the process in anger at the swarming crowds at one of the hostage handover points. Arbel Yehoud, 29, abducted from Kibbutz Nir …

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UN chief demands evacuation of 2,500 Gaza children at ‘imminent risk’ of death

31 Jan 2025

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday demanded that 2,500 children be immediately evacuated from Gaza for medical treatment after meeting with U.S. doctors who said the children were at imminent risk of death in the coming weeks. The four doctors had all volunteered in Gaza during the …

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Prominent Palestinian prisoner freed in Gaza deal unable to return to embattled hometown

30 Jan 2025

(Reuters) – Zakaria Zubeidi’s last, fleeting, taste of freedom involved five days on the run after escaping from an Israeli maximum security prison in 2021, but on Thursday the Palestinian militant was released as part of the Gaza ceasefire deal. Zubeidi, a former leader in an armed group in the West Bank city of Jenin …

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