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US President Donald Trump has said he is ready to impose tougher sanctions on Russia, but only if Nato countries meet certain conditions which include stopping buying Russian oil.In a post on his Truth Social platform, he said he was “ready to do major sanctions on Russia” once Nato nations had “agreed, and started, to do the same thing”.Trump has repeatedly threatened tougher measures against Moscow, but has so far failed to take any action when the Kremlin ignored his deadlines and threats of sanctions.He described the purchases of Russian oil as “shocking” and also suggested that Nato place 50…

Ice Cube is shedding some light on the turbulent production of “War of the Worlds.” During a recent interview with Kai Cenat, the “Friday” star said that the viral “War of the Worlds” remake was shot in 2020 during the COVID pandemic, and that his scenes were completed in 15 days without the director or any of his co-stars. “[‘War of the Worlds’] was a movie I did in 2020 during the pandemic,” Ice Cube recalled. “We shot it in 15 days, and it was during the pandemic. So the director wasn’t in there. None of the actors was in…

New Zealand: Holmes; Sorensen-McGee, Waaka, Setefano, Woodman-Wickliffe; Demant (co-capt), Joseph; Viliko, Ponsonby, Mahutariki-Fakalelu, Roos, Bremner, Mikaele-Tu’u, Miller, Olsen-Baker.Replacements: Lolohea, Tangen-Wainohu, Henwood, Bayfield, Tukuafu (co-capt), Hohaia, Vahaakolo, Leti-I’iga.South Africa: Dolf; Samboya, Mpupha, Ngwevu, Malinga; Van Rensburg, Roos; Charlie, Gwala, Latsha, Booi (capt), Lochner, Solontsi, Mcatshulwa, Hele.Replacements: Hanekom, Ngxingolo, Mdliki, Ubisi, Qolo, Makua, Jacobs, Webb.

California’s state senate gave final approval early on Saturday morning to a major AI safety bill setting new transparency requirements on large companies. As described by its author, state senator Scott Wiener, SB 53 “requires large AI labs to be transparent about their safety protocols, creates whistleblower protections for [employees] at AI labs & creates a public cloud to expand compute access (CalCompute).” The bill now goes to California Governor Gavin Newsom to sign or veto. He has not commented publicly on SB 53, but last year, he vetoed a more expansive safety bill also authored by Wiener, while signing…

new video loaded: Anti-Immigration Activists Face Off With Counterprotesters in LondonBy Ang Li•September 13, 2025Thousands of far-right activists marched through central London on Saturday, setting off sporadic clashes with the police as they held dueling demonstrations with counterprotesters.

The United Kingdom’s House of Commons this week adopted a bill on the handing back of the Chagos archipelago to Mauritius. The decision has been welcomed by the descendants of those who were expelled from the Indian Ocean territory more than 50 years ago to make way for a military base. The “Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill” passed after a second reading, with 330 votes to 174 on 9 September – thus ratifying Mauritian sovereignty over the Chagos archipelago. However, Diego Garcia island will remain under an Anglo-American military lease for 99 years with an…

Charlie Kaufman is in a funk. The genius screenwriter behind Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Synecdoche, New York, the devastating Buñuelian comedy of mortality that he also directed, can’t get a movie off the ground. “I’m having great difficulty,” he sighs. “I’m not a person that people want to trust with their money. It’s very frustrating.”Earlier this year, production of a film he was preparing to make – Later the War, starring Eddie Redmayne as a manufacturer of dreams who diversifies into nightmares – was shut down in Belgrade; he hopes it will resume.…

Nigeria’s largest airline, Air Peace, has said the captain involved in the Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo International Airport, Omagwa in Port Harcourt incident had been grounded and relieved from further flight duty. This came as the Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau, NSIB, said preliminary investigation into the incident, involving its Boeing 737-524 aircraft, with nationality and registration marks 5N-BQQ, showed that “initial toxicological tests conducted on the flight crew revealed positive results for certain substances, including indicators of alcohol consumption. A cabin crew member also tested positive for THC, the psychoactive component in cannabis.” However, in a statement, Air Peace clarified that…

Shwetha SurendranSep 13, 2025, 09:14 AM ETCloseShwetha Surendran is a reporter in ESPN’s investigative and enterprise unit.LA Clippers owner Steve Ballmer and the team are under investigation by the NBA following a report that Kawhi Leonard allegedly accepted a $28 million endorsement from a company called Aspiration as a way to circumvent the league’s salary cap.Ballmer, who had previously invested $50 million in Aspiration, has denied he had knowledge of the deal or that he directed the company to strike one.Editor’s Picks2 RelatedHere’s what we know about the now-defunct Aspiration at the center of the accusations.What was Aspiration and who…

It was a year in to driving his daughter to school in his new electric vehicle that Phil Bellamy discovered she dreaded the 10-minute daily ride – it made her feel sick in a way no other car did.As the driver, Bellamy had no problems with the car but his teenage daughters struggled with sickness every time they entered the vehicle. Research has shown this is an issue – people who did not usually have motion sickness in a conventional car found that they did in EVs.For Bellamy, 51, his family’s aversion to riding in his car made him wonder…