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Exclusive-AI lab Lila Sciences tops $1.3 billion valuation with new Nvidia backing

By Krystal Hu (Reuters) -AI startup Lila Sciences has raised $115 million in an extension funding round from investors including Nvidia’s venture arm, lifting its valuation to more than $1.3 billion, the company told Reuters. The latest funding brings Lila’s total Series A to $350 million and overall capital raised to $550 million, reflecting strong …

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Israel says it opens fire on suspects in Gaza, local authorities report six killed

(Reuters) -Israel’s military said it opened fire on Tuesday to remove a threat posed by suspects who approached its forces in the northern Gaza Strip, and health authorities in the enclave said at least six Palestinians had been killed by Israeli fire. The military said the suspects had crossed a boundary for an initial Israeli …

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Trump declares end of Gaza war as last Israeli hostages swapped for Palestinian detainees

By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Maayan Lubell CAIRO/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Hamas freed the last living Israeli hostages from Gaza on Monday under a ceasefire deal and Israel sent home busloads of Palestinian detainees, as U.S. President Donald Trump declared the end of the two-year long war that has upended the broader Middle East. Hours later, Trump convened …

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Australia to make next billion-dollar AUKUS payment ‘shortly’, says minister

SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia will make a second billion-dollar payment to boost U.S. nuclear submarine shipyards soon, Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy said in Washington on Tuesday, ahead of an official visit by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese next week. The AUKUS agreement to transfer nuclear-powered submarines to Australia is being reviewed by the Pentagon, although Australia …

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Analysis-From menacing to ‘cool’: How views on China have shifted in Vietnam

By Phuong Nguyen and Francesco Guarascio HANOI (Reuters) -Dozens of young Vietnamese women lined up for hours last month to catch a glimpse of “cool” troops marching through Hanoi in a huge military parade. But it was not their own soldiers they were looking out for. It was the Chinese contingent. The scene reflects a …

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Human rights activist among two Venezuelans attacked in Colombia

CARACAS (Reuters) -A Venezuelan human rights activist and a political consultant were shot and injured in Colombia’s capital on Monday in a hitman-style attack, Colombian officials said.   Yendri Velasquez, a human rights and LGBT activist, and political consultant Luis Peche were stable after being shot while leaving a building in Bogota, Colombia’s national police reported, …

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Peru’s ‘Porky’, mayor of Lima, quits to run for president

By Marco Aquino LIMA (Reuters) -The mayor of Peru’s capital, Rafael Lopez Aliaga resigned on Monday from his post to become the first presidential contender in April’s election, as the country navigates a fresh political crisis following an abrupt change of government. The governor of the northwestern region of La Libertad, millionaire businessman Cesar Acuna, …

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US condemns China over South China Sea vessel clash with the Philippines

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States condemned China on Monday after Washington’s ally the Philippines and China traded accusations over a maritime confrontation near disputed islands in the South China Sea. “The United States condemns China’s October 12 ramming and water cannoning of a Philippine Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources vessel close to Thitu Island …

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Mediators Egypt, Qatar and Turkey sign with Trump document on Gaza ceasefire deal

CAIRO (Reuters) -Mediators Egypt, Qatar and Turkey signed on Monday with U.S. President Donald Trump a document on the Gaza ceasefire deal. The document was signed during the international summit hosted by Egypt in the Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh on the deal. (Reporting by Menna Alaa El-Din and Jaidaa Taha; Editing by Hugh …

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