Benjamin Netanyahu's office says he secretly met UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed during the Iran war, underscoring how quietly Israel and Abu Dhabi are expanding security ties even as the Emiratis avoid public ownership of the relationship.[2][3][4][5]
BRICS foreign ministers opened talks in New Delhi under the shadow of the Iran war, with oil disruption, sanctions politics and rival regional interests exposing how hard it may be for the expanded bloc to speak with one voice.[1][2][3]
South Carolina's highest court overturned Alex Murdaugh's murder convictions and ordered a new trial, saying jury interference by a court clerk and prejudicial trial rulings denied him a fair proceeding, even as prosecutors vowed to try the case again.[1][2][4]
El Salvador has opened a consolidated trial against 486 alleged MS-13 leaders, testing President Nayib Bukele’s mass-prosecution strategy as officials cite security gains and rights groups warn that emergency-era procedures weaken due process.[1][3][4][5]
Three Tennessee plaintiffs accuse Elon Musk's xAI of knowingly enabling its Grok chatbot to produce sexually explicit imagery of real minors, filing a proposed class action in federal court on Monday.
On Thursday, Meta expanded its CoreWeave relationship with another $21 billion commitment running through 2032, giving the company more dedicated AI cloud capacity while sharpening debate over whether demand, debt and margins can justify the scale of the current infrastructure buildout.[1][2][3][4]
