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Pipers and dreams: World Cup fever grips Scotland again after 28 years

The country is ready to blow away decades of dashed hopes and celebrate, with marching bands and all-night partiesScotland is leaning into one its most treasured traditions: embracing the hope and anxiety of a football World Cup, with a healthy dose of self-deprecating style.There are brash new tartans, an Edinburgh bar offering free Irn-Bru-infused “fiery ginger” beers for patrons with red hair, a collaboration between Scottish whisky firms and a Brazilian distiller, and all-night parties in nightclubs repurposed as fanzones. Continue reading...

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Palestinian American woman held without charge by Israeli military

Soldiers arrested university student Sama Safi, 20, along with members of Palestinian women’s national soccer teamA 20-year-old Palestinian American woman has been held in Israeli military detention for nearly two weeks after Israeli soldiers stormed her family home in a pre-dawn raid on 2 June.Sama Safi, a psychology student at Birzeit University in the occupied West Bank, has not been charged with any crimes. A spokesperson for the Israeli military said she and three other women detained around the same time were arrested “after promoting hostile terrorist activity and additional terrorist-related activities”. Continue reading...

Anthropic Suspends Fable 5, Mythos 5 AI Models After US Security Order

Just three days after publicly launching Fable 5, the company said in a blog post that it received a government directive banning all foreign nationals from accessing Fable 5 and Mythos 5

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Peace Deal Soon? US Official 80-85% Confident, But Iran Has Some Conditions

Though pitched as a major diplomatic victory, the proposed agreement will only establish a 60-day ceasefire that would be followed by another set of negotiations.

3 Indians Died In US Strikes. 10 Others Were Killed When A Jet Fell From Sky

Three Indians were killed in an US strike on a vessel off the coast of Oman. It is not the first time that Indians have come under the line of fire from American miscalculations.