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A Sudanese airstrike hit an airport in the country’s Darfur region controlled by a notorious paramilitary group, destroying a suspected Emirati military aircraft and killing dozens of suspected mercenaries, Sudanese officials and a rebel adviser said Thursday (August 7, 2025).Wednesday’s (August 6, 2025) strike on the Nyala airport killed at least 40 suspected mercenaries from Colombia and destroyed a shipment of arms and equipment that were sent by the United Arab Emirates to the Rapid Support Forces, or RSF, according to two Sudanese military officials and an adviser to a Darfur rebel leader allied with RSF.The officials spoke on condition…

Comedian Kapil Sharma received distressing news on Thursday as his cafe, Kap’s Cafe, in Surrey, British Columbia, was attacked for the second time in less than a month. Located at the intersection of 85 Avenue and Scott Road, the cafe’s windows were shattered by gunfire. Fortunately, no injuries were reported, although some staff members were inside at the time of the incident. The motive behind the latest attack remains unclear, but it comes just days after Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke visited the cafe to celebrate its reopening. A post on social media, purportedly by a member of the Lawrence Bishnoi…

The town planning wing officials demolishing a unauthorised building at James Garden in Nellore on Wednesday. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement In a move to intensify the crackdown on unauthorised constructions, Nellore Municipal Corporation (NMC) is taking several steps to put a check on road encroachments, illegal buildings and structures in the city.NMC Commissioner Y.O. Nandan on Thursday asked the officials to clear the road margins encroached by shops in the vicinity of A. C. Subba Reddy Vegetable Market near Madras Bus Stand.He asked the officials to monitor the market regularly and prevent the re-establishment of shops by vendors on…

Ahead of the Indian Premier League auctions, Rajasthan Royals find themselves in a catch-22 situation after their captain Sanju Samson has expressed his desire to part ways with the franchise. The big dilemma in front of the franchise now is whether to accept Samson’s request and release him back into the auction pool or indulge in a trade. Having retained him last year before the big player auctions, Rajasthan can still hold onto the player for the next two seasons, but The Indian Express understands that for the status quo to continue both the player and the franchise have to…

OpenAI, on Thursday, August 7, introduced its best AI system yet – GPT-5 – to ChatGPT and the API for developers and businesses. The much-awaited model brings the best of ChatGPT into one unified experience that has been designed to offer the best responses.  After nearly two years of GPT-4, which introduced multimodal capabilities and larger context windows, the new GPT-5 claims to be smarter, faster, and more useful than ever before. According to OpenAI, GPT-5 is more reliable, with fewer hallucinations and more accurate answers than any previous reasoning model. It comes with a massive context window with 256k…

Miran, who currently sits on the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers, has advocated for a far-reaching overhaul of Fed governance.United States President Donald Trump has said he will nominate Stephen Miran, a top economic adviser to the US Federal Reserve’s board of governors, for four months, temporarily filling a vacancy while continuing his search for a longer-term appointment.The president announced his decision on Thursday.Miran, the chair of the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers, would fill a seat vacated by Governor Adriana Kugler, a Biden appointee who is stepping down Friday. Kugler is returning to her tenured professorship at…

President Trump plans to nominate White House economist Stephen Miran to fill a temporary vacancy on the Federal Reserve’s board of governors. Brendan Smialowski/AFP hide caption toggle caption Brendan Smialowski/AFP President Trump plans to nominate White House economist Stephen Miran to fill a six-month vacancy on the Federal Reserve’s board of governors. In a post on social media, Trump said he wants Miran to fill the board seat being vacated by Adriana Kugler, whose term expires at the end of January. Kugler announced last week she’s leaving the Fed six months early to return to a teaching post at Georgetown…

Floyd and Stephanie Rance, founders of the Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival, onstage at the opening party. Arturo Holmes/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Arturo Holmes/Getty Images When I finally had a chance to sit down with pioneering rapper Slick Rick, one question nagged in the back of my brain: Where was the eye patch? Slick Rick, whose given name is Ricky Walters, was blinded in his right eye as a child and developed a habit of wearing stylish eye patches since his early days in the mid-1980s performing with Doug E. Fresh’s Get Fresh Crew. In 2020, one…

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A photo of an emaciated child in Gaza has gone viral, with many in Israel claiming it depicts false information. Our producer in Gaza meets the child and his family, we hear about how he is doing now and about the food insecurity many in Gaza are facing.(Image credit: Anas Baba)