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Al-Shifa Hospital director says blocking medical evacuations through Rafah crossing could be ‘death sentence’ for many.Published On 3 Feb 20263 Feb 2026Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareUnited Nations chief Antonio Guterres again has called on Israel to immediately allow humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, as the Israeli authorities continue to block dozens of Palestinians from exiting the war-ravaged enclave to seek medical treatment.Guterres made the appeal on Tuesday, as more than 100 sick and injured Palestinians congregated at the newly reopened Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt, hoping to access medical care abroad.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend…

Before you set sail on your AI journey, always check the state of your data – because if there is one thing likely to sink your ship, it is data quality.Gartner estimates that poor data quality costs organisations an average of $12.9 million each year in wasted resources and lost opportunities. That’s the bad news. The good news is that organisations are increasingly understanding the importance of their data quality – and less likely to fall into this trap.That’s the view of Ronnie Sheth, CEO of AI strategy, execution and governance firm SENEN Group. The company focuses on data and…

The US president writes on Truth Social that he wants ‘nothing further to do, into the future’ with the university.United States President Donald Trump has said his administration will seek $1bn in damages from Harvard University.The US president announced his plan to extract the money from the Ivy League school on social media late on Monday. The note, which did not explain the exact nature of his complaint, extends an already protracted legal battle with the university.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list“We are now seeking One Billion Dollars in damages, and want nothing further to do, into the…

Klarna aims to address the lack of interoperability between conversational AI agents and backend payment systems by backing Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), an open standard designed to unify how AI agents discover products and execute transactions.The partnership, which also sees Klarna supporting Google’s Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), places the Swedish fintech firm among the early payment providers to back a standardised framework for automated shopping.The interoperability problem with AI agent paymentsCurrent implementations of AI commerce often function as walled gardens. An AI agent on one platform typically requires a custom integration to communicate with a merchant’s inventory system, and…

Trump had slapped India with a punitive 25 percent tariff for buying Russian oil on top of a 25 percent ‘reciprocal’ tariff.United States President Donald Trump has agreed to slash US tariffs on Indian goods to 18 percent from 50 percent in exchange for India lowering trade barriers as well as stopping its purchases of Russian oil and buying oil instead from the US and potentially Venezuela.“Out of friendship and respect for Prime Minister Modi and, as per his request, effective immediately, we agreed to a Trade Deal between the United States and India, whereby the United States will charge…

HMRC has selected SAP to overhaul its core revenue systems and place AI at the centre of the UK’s tax administration strategy.The contract represents a broader shift in how public sector bodies approach automation. Rather than layering AI tools over legacy infrastructure, HMRC is replacing the underlying architecture to support machine learning and automated decision-making natively.The AI-powered modernisation effort focuses on the Enterprise Tax Management Platform (ETMP), the technological backbone responsible for managing over £800 billion in annual tax revenue and which currently supports over 45 tax regimes. By migrating this infrastructure to a managed cloud environment via RISE with…

Beirut, Lebanon – Before Israel’s war on Lebanon, Ali (full name withheld for safety reasons) lived in Haddatha, a village in the Bint Jbeil district in the south, about 12km (7.5 miles) from the border with Israel, surrounded by nature where agriculture was intrinsic to life.Then came Israel’s “hellfire”.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listAt least nine people were killed and some 3,000 injured, including the Iranian ambassador to Lebanon, when thousands of pagers exploded, nearly simultaneously, overwhelming hospitals on September 17, 2024.Six days later, Israel escalated its attacks across the south, killing nearly 600 people, in what was the…

For banks trying to put AI into real use, the hardest questions often come before any model is trained. Can the data be used at all? Where is it allowed to be stored? Who is responsible once the system goes live? At Standard Chartered, these privacy-driven questions now shape how AI systems are built, and deployed at the bank.For global banks operating in many jurisdictions, these early decisions are rarely straightforward. Privacy rules differ by market, and the same AI system may face very different constraints depending on where it is deployed. At Standard Chartered, this has pushed privacy teams…

Why are Gazans living in misery, with daily Israeli bombings, as the US promises ‘peace, stability and opportunity’?United States plans for Gaza amount to a “theme park of dispossession” for Palestinians, argues Drop Site News Middle East Editor Sharif Abdel Kouddous.Abdel Kouddous tells host Steve Clemons the draconian measures planned for the two million shell-shocked Palestinians in Gaza are an Orwellian labyrinth of biometrics, bureaucracy and “a lab for government surveillance” – all meant to drive them out.Noting that Israel hasn’t “gone past phase one” of any ceasefire agreement with an Arab country, Abdel Kouddous warns that Israel is establishing…

Gallup’s data reveals a significant number of workers ore unsure whether or not their employer had adopted AI – nearly a quarter of those surveyed weren’t sure. In the third quarter of 2025, just over a third of employees said their organisation had implemented AI. 40% said there was no adoption of AI in their place of work It’s worth noting that earlier versions of Gallup surveys didn’t include a “don’t know” option for questions about employers’ AI adoption, which encouraged respondents to guess. Belief in organisational AI adoption appeared to rise sharply between 2024 and 2025, therefore, Gallup says.…