Trump says he has secured a vast U.S. stake in Venezuelan oil industry; At least 540 killed in floods; search on for hundreds...

Trump says he has secured a vast U.S. stake in Venezuelan oil industry

The plan involves the United States taking more direct control over Venezuelan reserves as crime and steep logistical challenges discourage private investors.

At least 540 killed in floods; search on for hundreds missing at Nepal-China border

Fears of further flooding complicated recovery efforts, as authorities searched for people missing after floods struck the Himalayan border between Nepal and China.

Trump’s grab for Greenland rattles Iceland, which considers joining E.U.

Iceland will decide whether to restart talks on joining the European Union in a referendum on Saturday, with President Donald Trump's threat to annex Greenland a motivating factor.

Volkswagen CEO warns German workers of sweeping layoffs to come

The automaker, one of the nation’s biggest employers, could shed tens of thousands of jobs amid global market shifts driven by electrification, AI and autonomous driving.

Uganda declared Ebola-free even as Congo faces deadly, fast-growing epidemic

Uganda's final Ebola patient was discharged from hospital care on July 16.

Iceland heads to polls in knife-edge referendum on restarting EU talks

Amid economic and security challenges, Iceland is holding a referendum more than a decade after pausing accession talks.

Ecuador sentences ex-president Moreno to five years in jail in bribery case

Lenin Moreno, 73, has also been permanently barred from holding any public office in the future.

Nepal and China resume flood rescue as death toll surpasses 600

Rescue operations have resumed after a brief pause, but experts caution of danger from a newly formed lake.

Guinea-Bissau votes on a stronger presidency: What’s at stake?

The proposed constitution would give the president more power and reshape parliament and elections.

Trump announces ‘biggest oil deal in world history’ with Venezuela

US president says deal secures majority control of more than 65 billion barrels of proven oil reserves in Venezuela.

Trump says U.S. has entered deal with Venezuela to take control of 65 billion barrels of oil reserves

President Trump says his administration has entered a sweeping agreement with Venezuela that could give the U.S. access to vast amounts of the South American country's untapped oil reserves, at cost.

Sae Joon Park, a Purple Heart veteran who self-deported, receives pardon

His removal order was triggered by two convictions from over 15 years ago, when he struggled with untreated PTSD. New York's governor said Park earned a "second chance through rehabilitation."

After 6 months of war, Iran's battered regime remains entrenched

Instead of collapsing, the Iranian regime has dug in its heels and taken an even harder line.

Fed's Kevin Warsh warns inflation is too high, sparking bets rate hikes are coming

Fed Chair Kevin Warsh reiterated his commitment to fighting inflation in a major speech — raising expectations that rate hikes may be coming, though he did not clearly spell out a path going forward.

New Jersey is a fossil hotspot, with answers about the day the dinosaurs died

Paleontologist Ken Lacovara never expected to find critical fossil data in a New Jersey suburb—let alone info about the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. His dig site is now a fossil park and museum.

359 dead, 910 missing in Nepal's floods

KATHMANDU -- Nepal's National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Authority said that as many as 359 bodies had been recovered from flood-hit areas by Thursday evening, with 910 people still missing.

China's 'grass tech' helps reap rich harvest in Fiji

SUVA, Fiji — On a stretch of land once scarred by salt, rows of lush green grass now ripple in the Pacific breeze. Just a few years ago, little could grow here.

Tariffs may hit both US, Canada

Canada's new retaliatory tariffs will deepen the economic pain from its trade fight with the United States, with experts saying both countries will bear the costs.

Moldova eyes expanding cooperation with China

This year marks the 35th anniversary of the Republic of Moldova's independence, offering an opportunity to reflect on the steady development of Moldova-China relations over the past three and a half decades and to look ahead with confidence to the next stage of the bilateral partnership, said the Moldovan ambassador to China.

Rescue continues after deadly floods in Nepal

Suspected Pakistan drone triggers search operation along LoC in Poonch

Security forces launch search operation after a suspected Pakistani drone is spotted along the LoC in Poonch, Jammu.

Manufacture in India, build for world: FM Sitharaman

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman invites global investors to leverage India's manufacturing and innovation potential for worldwide opportunities.

BJP worker caught photocopying 3,400 SIR forms with voter details in Navi Mumbai; 5 BLOs suspended

3,400 voter forms discovered at a Navi Mumbai shop lead to suspensions and clashes between Shiv Sena (UBT) and BJP activists.

CISF signs MoU to enhance counter-drone skills of security personnel

CISF signs MoU to boost counter-drone skills of security personnel, enhancing protection for critical national installations.

Congress chief Kharge must get justice, we demand FIR: Rahul Gandhi on rally venue ‘purification’ in Uttarakhand

Rahul Gandhi demands justice for Mallikarjun Kharge, calling for an FIR over BJP's 'purification' ritual in a venue in Uttarakhand.

Norway mourns King Harald as crowds gather at royal palace

Reuters: Norway mourns King Harald as crowds gather at royal palace.

EXCLUSIVE: Nepal's flood damage may cost up to a tenth of economy to rebuild

Reuters: EXCLUSIVE: Nepal's flood damage may cost up to a tenth of economy to rebuild.

Nepal wants technical help for flood, billions of dollars as bad weather hampers rescue

Reuters: Nepal wants technical help for flood, billions of dollars as bad weather hampers rescue.

China's CXMT to supply memory chip for Xiaomi's upcoming folding phone

Reuters: China's CXMT to supply memory chip for Xiaomi's upcoming folding phone.

War weighs on Iran's economy as US intensifies sanctions

Reuters: War weighs on Iran's economy as US intensifies sanctions.

Samsung's Processing-in-Memory (PIM)

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GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven

GUI applications should be fully driven by the keyboard using shortcuts

Boot a Virtual iPhone via Apple's Virtualization.framework

Contribute to Lakr233/vphone-cli development by creating an account on GitHub.

TurboKV: Insanely fast Rust key-value store

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Htmx 4.0

Release announcement, 2026-08-28.

U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective

Autistici/Inventati provides internet support to activists and collectives coming from the world of grassroot and social movements

e is a customizable self-aware Emacs-like editor written in Chez Scheme

A fully customizable self-aware Emacs-like editor written in Chez Scheme. - paveluv/e

I accidentally turned LLM memory into program analysis

Why I stopped trying to give LLM agents a better memory and instead built Lemmalog, a Datalog engine that maintains an agent's knowledge as analysis state, with provenance, retractions and incremental evaluation, plus what happened when I benchmarked it on LongMemEval and LoCoMo.

Does the Sumerian King List Align with Paleoclimate Events?

A statistical test of whether the Sumerian King List

Just the rumour of a bug is enough to find an exploit these days

Thinking through how the conventional OSS security embargoes no longer buy us time, and what open source maintainers might do instead to respond

RawToHEIC

Convert RAW to HEIC inside Apple Photos

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Tencent’s 770B open model for long-horizon work

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Turn your phone into a second screen and trackpad for PC