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Cricket authorities in Bangladesh have agreed to work closely with the International Cricket Council (ICC) to resolve security concerns regarding their team's participation in the upcoming T20 World Cup in India. The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) will cooperate with the tournament's organisers in order to ensure the country's participation, it said in a statement on Wednesday, three days after saying its men's team will not travel to the neighbouring country.

The unprecedented US military attack in Venezuela and the capture of Nicolas Maduro and his wife set alarm bells ringing for Iran's leadership. Tehran is one of the closest allies of Maduro, who remained in power in 2024 after massive election rigging and is not recognized by Germany or the European Union as the legitimate president of Venezuela. After his dramatic capture on Saturday, Maduro appeared in a New York courtroom on Monday on narco-terrorism charges.

On Havana's Fifth Avenue, where the trees and lawns remain elegantly groomed even as the rest of Cuba wilts, a billboard outside the Venezuelan embassy reads: Hasta Siempre Comandante (Until For Ever, Commander) next to a vast picture of a smiling Hugo Chavez. It is a staunch declaration that the two nations are bound together for ever. But this week, after the US operation to grab Chavez's successor, Nicolas Maduro, those ties are in danger of unravelling.

Beirut, Lebanon The strikes on Lebanon this week were the latest attacks conducted by Israel on its northern neighbour. Israel has consistently bombed Lebanon and conducted drone strikes despite a United States-brokered ceasefire in November 2024. The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) has documented more than 10,000 ceasefire violations by the Israelis, including 7,500 airspace violations and 2,500 ground violations.

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Everyone says they're horrified, but no one is responsible. That seems to be the message about Grok, Elon Musk's "anti-woke" AI, undressing children online when asked by social media users on X.

A mass ultra-Orthodox Jewish rally against military conscription turned deadly in Jerusalem on Tuesday, when a teenage boy was crushed and killed after a man driving a bus hit the crowd. The Israeli police said they detained the driver and are investigating. Video of the scene shows a bus driving straight into a crowd of ultra-Orthodox men at the demonstration, attended by thousands.

Seven US service members were injured during the covert raid to apprehend Nicolás Maduro over the weekend, a defense official told Business Insider on Tuesday, sharing the latest update on their condition. Five of the wounded troops have already returned to duty, while two others are still recovering from their injuries, the official said. "They are receiving excellent medical care and are well on their way to recovery," they said.

When Benchmark led a financing round for Manus earlier this year, the investment sparked immediate controversy. U.S. Senator John Cornyn complained about the deal on X, and the investment prompted inquiries from the U.S. Treasury Department around new rules restricting American investment in Chinese AI companies. The concerns were significant enough to spur Manus's eventual relocation from Beijing to Singapore part of what drove the company's step-by-step disentanglement from China, as one Chinese professor described it on WeChat this past weekend.

Venezuela's ambassador to the UN, Samuel Moncada, condemned the US operation as an illegitimate armed attack lacking any legal justification, in remarks echoed by Cuba, Colombia and permanent UNSC members Russia and China. [The US] imposes the application of its laws outside its own territory and far from its coasts, where it has no jurisdiction, using assaults and the appropriation of assets, Cuba's ambassador, Ernesto Soberon Guzman, said, adding that such measures negatively affected Cuba.

The road accident injured 65 people after the truck carrying migrants and asylum seekers overturned in town of Semera, according to local authorities. At least 22 people were killed, and 65 others were injured after a cargo truck packed with Ethiopian asylum seekers and migrants overturned on a highway. The road accident took place in Semera, in the country's northern Afar region, several hundred kilometres west of neighbouring Djibouti, local authorities reported on Tuesday.

Colombia's Foreign Minister Rosa Yolanda Villavicencio has warned that her country would answer any breach of its sovereignty with a military response, in the wake of threats from United States President Donald Trump. At a news conference on Tuesday, Villavicencio underscored that, under international law, countries have the right to self-defence should they be attacked. list of 3 itemsend of list If such aggression were to occur, the military must defend the national territory and the country's sovereignty, she said.