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April 17 (Reuters) – Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is slated to meet White House chief of staff Susie Wiles on Friday, in a sign of a breakthrough in the artificial intelligence startup’s dispute with the Pentagon, Axios reported. The potential meeting comes as U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration acknowledges the advanced capabilities of Anthropic’s new …
By Saad Sayeed and Mubasher Bukhari ISLAMABAD, April 17 (Reuters) – Pakistan’s air force escorted Iranian negotiators home from inconclusive peace talks with the U.S. last weekend, launching a major operation after the Iranians said Israel might seek to kill them, three sources told Reuters. Pakistan deployed some two dozen jets in the escort, as …
GENEVA, April 17 (Reuters) – An average of at least 47 women and girls were killed each day during the war in Gaza, according to figures published by U.N. Women on Friday, and the agency warned that deaths have continued six months into a fragile ceasefire. More than 38,000 women and girls were killed in …
By Deanna Neff HealthDay ReporterFRIDAY, April 17, 2026 (HealthDay News) — For patients with severe depression, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has long been the go-to when other treatments haven’t helped. However, the fear of losing memories or experiencing confusion often leads patients to steer clear of ECT, which uses an electric current to induce seizure activity …
COLOMBO, April 17 (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s Energy Minister Kumara Jayakody and ministry secretary Udayanga Hemapala resigned on Friday following an outcry over coal imports for power generation. Jayakody stepped down to make way for investigations to be carried out into alleged imports of low-quality coal for Sri Lanka’s only coal-fired power plant, according to …
WASHINGTON (AP) — As the United States was preparing a daring mission to rescue an airman whose fighter jet was shot down by Iran, there was money to be made. Users on Polymarket, the world’s largest prediction market, could place bets on when the airman would be rescued. When Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., shared a …
BUDAPEST, April 17 (Reuters) – Hungarian election winner Peter Magyar said on Friday he hoped to take the oath of office as prime minister on May 9 or 10 depending on a presidential decision on the inaugural session of parliament. Magyar said he would break with past practice and take the oath of office on …
JERUSALEM/BEIRUT, April 17 (Reuters) – Israel and Lebanon have agreed to a U.S.-backed ceasefire in fighting between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah, a deal meant to enable broader U.S.-Iran negotiations but one that will see Israeli forces maintain positions deep inside southern Lebanon. Israel and Lebanon agreed to implement a “cessation of hostilities” on April 16 …
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Around 15 people deported from the United States landed in Congo’s capital Kinshasa in the early hours of Friday, their lawyer said. It was the latest example of the Trump administration using agreements with African countries to accelerate migrant removals. The deportees are all from Latin America and the Congolese government …
By Dennis Thompson HealthDay ReporterFRIDAY, April 17, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Syphilis is on the rise in the United States, and with it the threat that a long-term untreated infection could pose to a person’s heart health, a new study says. The sexually transmitted disease (STD) doubles a person’s risk of ruptured blood vessels and …