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🔮 Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva would win a potential second-round vote in the October presidential election against opposition Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, an AtlasIntel/Bloomberg poll showed on Monday.
🔮 ChatGPT will have to comply with tougher safety rules after the EU added it on Aug 31 to a list of digital services subject to greater legal scrutiny, a first for an artificial intelligence chatbot.
🔮 Israel and Greece signed a €3 billion ($3.5 billion) defence deal on Monday under which Israel will build a multi-layered air defence system for Greece as Athens pushes ahead with a broader military modernisation programme.
🔮 Italy's population will shrink by almost 4 million by 2050, undermining the sustainability of its economy and welfare system as the proportion of elderly people increases, national statistics bureau ISTAT warned on Monday.
🔮 May His Majesty the King's soul rest in eternal peace," Bobi Wine, Ugandan pop star-turned-politician who is the country's leading opposition leader, said in a post on X.
In April, in a message to celebrate the King's birthday, Tooro's prime minister had said: "Our King is not distant from the realities of his people; he is part of this generation, part of this ecosystem, growing, learning, and leading...
🔮 The countries bordering the Baltic Sea plan to establish a joint task force for drone defence that will allow them to react quickly in the face of the growing threat of hybrid attacks, said German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt on Friday.
🔮 "The ship was hit... it seems to have sunk," Dan told journalists during a news conference in Chisinau, Moldova, on Thursday, adding that at present no information was available as to who might have been involved in a possible strike.
"There will be an investigation, it will be established, but it is not good for us to start speculating," the president said.
🔮 Thousands march in Washington as leaders warn of voting and civil rights rollbacks
WASHINGTON, Aug 28 - More than six decades after Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and declared his dream for a more just America, thousands are expected to march in Washington on Friday, as a new generation of civil rights leaders warns that the very rights King fought and died for are once again under siege.
🔮 Seven protesters accused of daubing pro-Palestinian graffiti on U.S. President Donald Trump's Turnberry golf resort in Scotland last year could face longer sentences if found guilty due to what prosecutors have described as a "terrorist connection."
🔮 • The deadly raid in Warrap State started at about 5 a.m. local time on Thursday when assailants from Unity State and others carried out "a brutal attack" on a camp of cattle herders in Tonj North county, the state's information minister, William Wol Mayom Bol, said in a statement.
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