Time magazine named the architects of artificial intelligence its “Person of the Year” yesterday, citing their ability to deliver the age of thinking machines with transformative technology.

A top Hamas leader told Qatari news channel Al Jazeera that the group is open to a weapons “freeze”, but rejects the demand for disarmament put forward in the US-sponsored peace plan for Gaza.

President Donald Trump’s administration officially launched his “Trump Gold Card” visa programme on Wednesday to provide a pathway, with a steep price, for non-US citizens to get expedited permission to live in the United States.

Bulgaria’s prime minister announced yesterday that his government was resigning after less than a year in office following a series of anti-corruption protests.

Nepalese officials on Wednesday inked a landmark agreement with representatives of the Gen Z movement, whose September uprising toppled the Himalayan nation’s government.

Ukrainian aerial drones struck a Russian oil platform in the Caspian Sea for the first time yesterday, halting production at the facility owned by Lukoil, according to an official from Ukraine’s Security Service.

The US has seized a sanctioned oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, President Donald Trump said on Wednesday, a move that sent oil prices higher and sharply escalated tensions between Washington and Caracas.

Fighting raged yesterday along the border of Cambodia and Thailand, with explosions heard near centuries-old temples ahead of US President Donald Trump’s planned phone call to the leaders of both nations.

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At least 15 people, including Thai soldiers and Cambodian civilians, have been killed in the reignited border conflict, officials say

Machado dedicated honour in part to US President Donald Trump

Signals new effort to go after Venezuela's main revenue source

Changing tariffs will also affect South Korea, India, Indonesia, Russia, Thailand, Turkey, Taiwan and Brazil

The administration of US President Donald Trump plans to order visa-exempt foreign tourists to disclose their social media histories from the last five years before entering the country, according to an official notice.

Vietnam’s parliament yesterday approved legislation that will compel journalists to disclose sources under certain circumstances and ban the online dissemination of “anti-state” information, sparking criticism from press freedom advocates.

Israeli forces carried out a wave of raids across several parts of the occupied West Bank yesterday morning, arresting more than 100 Palestinians.

War of words between members of the Pakistan’s ruling PML-N and the PTI continued yesterday, with Coordinator to the Prime Minister on Information for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Affairs Ikhtiar Wali Khan saying that “things have reached a point of no return”, while PTI chairman Barrister Gohar Ali stressed that “better sense should prevail”.

Half a million evacuees in Cambodia and Thailand were sheltering in pagodas, schools and other safe havens yesterday after fleeing fresh fighting in a century-old border dispute in which US President Donald Trump has vowed to again intercede.

OHCHR has $90 million less in funding than it needed this year, which resulted in 300 jobs cuts, directly impacting the office's work

Machado, 58, is due to receive the award at a ceremony at Oslo City Hall