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Disasters and accidents
Twenty people are killed and 30 more are injured after the crash of a Bolivian Air Force aircraft into a busy avenue in El Alto, Bolivia. (Reuters)
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Disasters and accidents
Seven people are killed and 19 others are injured in a blast and fire at a café in Shchuchinsk, Kazakhstan. (Reuters)
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Disasters and accidents
Two people are killed and 49 more injured after a tram derails in Milan, Italy, and crashes into pedestrians and a building. (BBC News) (Rai News)
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Law and crime
The Supreme Court of Israel issues an interim order suspending a government ban on 37 foreign non-governmental organizations operating in Gaza and the West Bank, allowing them to continue their operations while the court reviews a petition challenging the revocation of their legal status. (AFP via France 24)
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Law and crime
A Tunisian court sentences former prime minister Ali Laarayedh, who has been detained since 2022, to 24 years in prison for facilitating the travel of Tunisian nationals to Syrian conflict zones during his premiership, while seven co-defendants, including former interior ministry officials, receive prison terms ranging from three to 24 years. (Reuters)
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Science and technology
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei rejects a U.S. Department of Defense request to loosen security safeguards on the Claude large language model for potential use in mass surveillance and autonomous weapons systems. (BBC News) (SRF)
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Science and technology
OpenAI announces that it has reached an agreement with the U.S. Department of Defense to deploy its technology on the latter's network. (Politico)