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Trump did not give a timeline for trip, which would make him the first US president to visit the country since 1997.Listen to this article | 4 minsinfoDonald Trump has said he plans to become the first sitting United States president to visit Venezuela in nearly three decades.Trump made the statement to reporters on Friday as he departed White House for the Fort Bragg military base in North Carolina, where he met soldiers involved in the US abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on January 3.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list“I’m going to make a visit to Venezuela,” Trump said.…

An operational AI forecasting model developed by Hertfordshire University researchers aims to improve resource efficiency within healthcare.Public sector organisations often hold large archives of historical data that do not inform forward-looking decisions. A partnership between the University of Hertfordshire and regional NHS health bodies addresses this issue by applying machine learning to operational planning. The project analyses healthcare demand to assist managers with decisions regarding staffing, patient care, and resources.Most AI initiatives in healthcare focus on individual diagnostics or patient-level interventions. The project team notes that this tool targets system-wide operational management instead. This distinction matters for leaders evaluating where…

Listen to this article | 5 minsinfoSudan’s Foreign Minister Mohieldin Salem has said his government is protecting Africa from external plots by confronting foreign interference in his country’s brutal civil war, deep into its third year, as he called on the African Union (AU) for support in its efforts to stabilise the country.In an interview with Al Jazeera in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on Thursday, on the sidelines of a meeting of the AU’s Peace and Security Council, Salem said the government-aligned Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) war with the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary was a battle against external intervention.Recommended Stories…

The UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) has selected Red Hat to architect a unified AI and hybrid cloud backbone across its entire estate. Announced today, the agreement is designed to break down data silos and accelerate the deployment of AI models from the data centre to the tactical edge.For CIOs, it’s part of a broader move away from fragmented and project-specific AI pilots toward a more platform engineering approach. By standardising on Red Hat’s infrastructure, the MOD aims to decouple its AI capabilities from underlying hardware, allowing algorithms to be developed once and deployed anywhere—whether on-premise, in the cloud, or…

Pentagon policy chief Elbridge Colby says current NATO approach ‘no longer fit for purpose’.Listen to this article | 3 minsinfoPentagon policy chief Elbridge Colby has called for NATO “partnerships not dependencies”, saying Europe must take primary responsibility for its defence.The US official was in Brussels to meet with NATO’s defence ministers on Thursday, where he delivered remarks calling for “clear-eyed realism and fundamental adaptation by all”.Noting that the current approach of the military alliance was “no longer fit for purpose”, he said a new “NATO 3.0” required “much greater efforts by our allies to step up and assume primary responsibility for the…

State-sponsored hackers are exploiting highly-advanced tooling to accelerate their particular flavours of cyberattacks, with threat actors from Iran, North Korea, China, and Russia using models like Google’s Gemini to further their campaigns. They are able to craft sophisticated phishing campaigns and develop malware, according to a new report from Google’s Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG).The quarterly AI Threat Tracker report, released today, reveals how government-backed attackers have begun to use artificial intelligence in the attack lifecycle – reconnaissance, social engineering, and eventually, malware development. This activity has become apparent thanks to the GTIG’s work during the final quarter of 2025.“For government-backed…

Listen to this article | 6 minsinfoThe Norwegian diplomat who was a key architect of the 1993 Oslo Accords is facing a storm of corruption and blackmail allegations after new documents revealed he was deeply embedded in the inner circle of late sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein.Terje Rod-Larsen, a central figure in the Middle East “peace process” in the 1990s, is implicated in newly released United States Justice Department files and Norwegian media investigations that expose a relationship involving illicit loans, visa fraud for sex-trafficked women, and a beneficiary clause in Epstein’s will worth millions of dollars.The revelations have sent shockwaves…

Agentic AI offers insurance leaders a path to scalable efficiency as the sector confronts a tough digital transformation.Insurers hold deep data reserves and employ a workforce skilled in analytic decision-making. Despite these advantages, the industry has largely failed to advance beyond pilot programmes. Research suggests only seven percent of insurers have scaled these initiatives effectively across their organisations.The barrier is rarely a lack of interest. Instead, legacy infrastructure and fragmented data architectures often stop integration before it starts. Financial pressure compounds the technical debt. The sector has absorbed losses exceeding $100 billion annually for six consecutive years. High-frequency property losses…

New York City, United States – For 14 years, BC Dodge built a career telling other people’s stories as a marketing and communications professional in the nonprofit sector in the Washington, DC area in the United States. But in late 2024, that stable career hit a speed bump.He was laid off from his job amid a round of restructuring. The news landed without warning. One day he had a job, and the next he was sitting at home, staring at the numbers, trying to figure out how to keep paying the mortgage and putting food on the table.Recommended Stories list of…

Barclays recorded a 12 % jump in annual profit for 2025, reporting £9.1 billion in earnings before tax, up from £8.1 billion a year earlier. The bank also raised its performance targets out through 2028, aiming for a return on tangible equity (RoTE) of more than 14 %, up from a previous goal of above 12 % by 2026. A growing US business and cost reductions underpinned this outcome, with Barclays citing AI as a key driver of those efficiency gains.At a time when many large companies are still experimenting with AI pilots, Barclays is tying the technology directly to…