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Pause on visas and halting of asylum applications comes after shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, DC.The US State Department has announced it is “immediately” pausing issuing visas for individuals travelling on Afghan passports to protect “public safety”, as President Donald Trump administration’s immigration crackdown intensifies in the wake of a deadly attack on two National Guard members.The announcement on Friday came as United States immigration authorities said they are also halting decisions on all asylum applications for the foreseeable future.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listUS Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed in a post on…

If you asked most enterprise leaders which AI tools are delivering ROI, many would point to front-end chatbots or customer support automation. That’s the wrong door. The most value-generating AI systems today aren’t loud, customer-facing marvels. They’re tucked away in backend operations. They work silently, flagging irregularities in real-time, automating risk reviews, mapping data lineage, or helping compliance teams detect anomalies before regulators do. The tools don’t ask for credit, but are saving millions.Operational resilience no longer comes from having the loudest AI tool. It comes from having the smartest one, placed where it quietly does the work of five…

Ukrainian president’s chief of staff Andriy Yermak confirms search, saying he has offered ‘full cooperation’.Anticorruption authorities in Ukraine have searched the home of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s chief of staff, as a major corruption investigation continues to roil the country and cause consternation among allies.Andriy Yermak, who leads Kyiv’s negotiating team concurrently trying to hash out the terms of a United States-proposed plan to end the four-year war with Russia, confirmed his apartment was being searched on Friday and said he was fully cooperating.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list“There are no obstacles for the investigators. They have been given…

The latest MCP spec update fortifies enterprise infrastructure with tighter security, moving AI agents from pilot to production.Marking its first year, the Anthropic-created open-source project released a revised spec this week aimed at the operational headaches keeping generative AI agents stuck in pilot mode. Backed by Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, and Google Cloud, the update adds support for long-running workflows and tighter security controls.The market is drifting away from fragile, bespoke integrations. For enterprises, this is a chance to deploy agentic AI that can read and write to corporate data stores without incurring massive technical debt.MCP advances from ‘developer…

Here are the key events from day 1,373 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.Published On 28 Nov 202528 Nov 2025Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareHere’s where things stand on Friday, November 28.Fighting Russian forces have “completely surrounded” the embattled Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk and control 70 percent of it, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said. Putin also said that once Ukrainian troops withdraw from their positions in key areas, then the fighting will stop. But if they do not, then Russian forces will achieve their objectives by force. The Russian president added that the pace of Russia’s advance in all…

SAP is moving its sovereignty plans forward with EU AI Cloud, a setup meant to bring its past efforts under one approach. The goal is simple: give organisations in Europe more choice and more control over how they run AI and cloud services.Some may prefer SAP’s own data centres, some may use trusted European providers, and others may want everything managed on-site. EU AI Cloud is built to support those different needs while keeping data inside the region and in line with EU rules.Strengthening AI sovereignty across EuropeSAP is also working with Cohere to bring new agent-style and multimodal AI…

Firefighters in Hong Kong are working for a second day to put out a large blaze at a residential complex that has killed at least 65 people in the Chinese territory’s deadliest and most destructive fire in 60 years.Officials said on Thursday that flames in four buildings in the Wang Fuk Court housing complex, located in the Tai Po neighbourhood, had been extinguished and fires in the rest of the site were under control.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listBut rescuers are still racing to reach people feared trapped on the upper floors of the complex, where at least…

Malaysia has captured 32% of Southeast Asia’s total AI funding – equivalent to US$759 million – between H2 2024 and H1 2025, establishing itself as the region’s dominant destination for artificial intelligence investment as massive infrastructure expansion and high consumer adoption converge to reshape the country’s technology landscape, according to the e-Conomy SEA 2025 report released by Google, Temasek, and Bain & Company.The Malaysia AI investment increase is underpinned by an expansion in physical infrastructure that sets the country apart from regional competitors. Data centre capacity rose from 120 megawatts in 2024 to 690 MW in the first half of…

Bangkok, Thailand – Stewed, seasoned with sugar and cloves, deep-fried or dished up in a zingy chilli mince – the diets of most Thais are incomplete without pork.But a $3bn market – supplied nearly entirely by domestic pig farmers – may be about to face competition like never before from the giant hog farms of the world’s third-largest producer, the United States.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listWhile the fine print of the Thai government’s preliminary trade deal with the US is yet to be revealed, some details have emerged.Washington has a 10,000-item-long wish list of goods it wants…

Indonesia’s push into AI-led growth is gaining momentum as more local organisations look for ways to build their own applications, update their systems, and strengthen data oversight. The country now has broader access to cloud and AI tools after Microsoft expanded the services available in the Indonesia Central cloud region, which first went live six months ago. The expansion gives businesses, public bodies, and developers more options to run AI workloads inside the country instead of overseas data centres.The update was shared at the Cloud & AI Innovation Summit in Jakarta, where business and government leaders met to discuss how…