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Published On 19 Apr 202619 Apr 2026Tens of thousands of displaced Lebanese families have started to return to their southern homeland despite ongoing Israeli shelling and home demolitions near the border.Saturday saw a steady stream of vehicles loaded with mattresses, bags and flags as families travelled south to evaluate the condition of their homes.This tentative homecoming follows a 10-day truce between Lebanon and Israel, though the Lebanese army has advised residents to postpone their return while Hezbollah warns it has its “finger on the trigger” should Israel breach the agreement.Many returnees found their homes destroyed or damaged beyond habitation, making…

Despite missing leading scorers Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves, the LA Lakers and LeBron James defeat Houston in opener.Published On 19 Apr 202619 Apr 2026Luke Kennard scored a career playoff-high 27 points, LeBron James had 19 points and 13 assists, and the short-handed Los Angeles Lakers capitalised on Kevin Durant’s injury absence for a 107-98 victory over the Houston Rockets in the opener of their first-round playoff series on Saturday night.Deandre Ayton had 19 points and 11 rebounds for the fourth-seeded Lakers, who pulled off an impressive win without their top two scorers.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listBoth…

Scotiabank has launched an AI framework, Scotia Intelligence, for data and AI operations that joins various platforms, data oversight, and software tools into a single instance.According to a press release from the bank, the stated purpose of Scotia Intelligence is to give employees, especially client-facing teams, access to AI under the bank’s existing governance and security rules. Scotiabank has published a short data ethics commitment paper, the existence of which is unique in Canada, the bank says.Tim Clark, Scotiabank’s group head and chief information officer, said Scotia Intelligence is a new approach that combines the bank’s existing infrastructure with AI…

Maria Corina Machado gave Trump her Nobel Peace Prize after the US leader captured Nicolas Maduro.By Al Jazeera staff, AFP and ReutersPublished On 18 Apr 202618 Apr 2026Venezuela’s main opposition leader Maria Corina Machado says she has “no regrets” about giving US President Donald Trump her Nobel Peace Prize medal.Machado, the 2025 recipient of the prestigious prize, presented the medal that accompanies the prize to Trump when she met him at the White House in January, two weeks after he ordered US special forces to seize Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro from Caracas.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listTrump’s military…

Singapore-based DroneDash Technologies and GEODNET have formed a joint venture to be called GEODASH Aerosystems, to build an agricultural spraying drone for large industrial farms. The companies say the near-production drone technology is designed to remove the need to map a field to be treated before each flight, and the need to rebuild flight plans when conditions on the ground have changed. The aircraft will be capable of perceiving its surroundings during flight, adjust behaviour in response to visuals it captures, and undertake crop spraying. Current agricultural spraying drones were adapted from general-purpose models developed outside the industry, which meant…

The vote count continues to determine who will join conservative Keiko Fujimori in Peru’s presidential run-off in June.Published On 17 Apr 202617 Apr 2026Calls to remove the head of Peru’s electoral authority have intensified as delays and alleged irregularities clouded the presidential vote count.As of Friday, no clear challenger has emerged to face conservative frontrunner Keiko Fujimori in the June 7 run-off.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listThe general election was held on Sunday, but an extension was granted to accommodate for the difficulties in ballot distribution.Pressure has mounted against the head of Peru’s National Office of Electoral Processes…

A vibe-coding application creation company, Emergent, has released Wingman, an autonomous agent that can address and take control of the applications used to manage daily tasks. The company’s press release states: “The best technology should be accessible to everyone”, and cites the difficulty that users without a technical background have in creating software applications. It says that eight million founders of businesses from 190 countries have used its products to create and ship software described as production-ready. Users of Wingman will be able to deploy a team of agents working on their behalf. “Now, anyone can have an always-on team…

Arsenal travel to Manchester City knowing their Premier League could be eradicated by next Wednesday.Published On 17 Apr 202617 Apr 2026Mikel Arteta has urged spluttering Arsenal to embrace the “huge privilege” of facing Manchester City in a potentially decisive showdown in the Premier League title race.Arteta’s side are six points clear of second-placed City ahead of their blockbuster clash at the Etihad Stadium on Sunday.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listBut City have a game in hand on the Gunners and a victory for Pep Guardiola’s men would tilt the balance of power in their favour heading into the…

OpenAI is introducing sandbox execution that allows enterprise governance teams to deploy automated workflows with controlled risk.Teams taking systems from prototype to production have faced difficult architectural compromises regarding where their operations occurred. Using model-agnostic frameworks offered initial flexibility but failed to fully utilise the capabilities of frontier models. Model-provider SDKs remained closer to the underlying model, but often lacked enough visibility into the control harness.To complicate matters further, managed agent APIs simplified the deployment process but severely constrained where the systems could run and how they accessed sensitive corporate data. To resolve this, OpenAI is introducing new capabilities to…

Mahmoud Khader Abed Adra, sought for over four decades, was surrendered by Palestinian authoritiesPublished On 17 Apr 202617 Apr 2026A man suspected of organising a deadly attack on a Jewish restaurant in Paris has been arrested and placed in custody in France after being handed over by Palestinian authorities.Mahmoud Khader Abed Adra, also known as Hicham Harb, arrived in France on Thursday after Palestinian officials surrendered him to French authorities, a handover that French President Emmanuel Macron linked directly to France’s recent recognition of Palestinian statehood.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listOn August 9, 1982, three to five men…