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As new strikes returned Gaza to the headlines, roughly 541,000 students went back to school earlier this week — taught in damaged buildings, tents and temporary learning spaces, while many school premises remain unusable or occupied by displaced families.
Source: Bernama / WAFA
Read the original story →Anthropic and Accenture announced an embedded-evaluation partnership on 18 September: outside evaluators working inside the AI company with access comparable to an employee's, red-teaming models, running alignment assessments and testing safeguards. Each side expects to invest at least $1 billion over five years.
Source: Anthropic
Read the original story →Reuters reported on 17 September that China, after an appeal from Riyadh, privately pressed Tehran to help rein in the Houthis as attacks threatened Gulf energy routes. Alongside it, Saudi exports have been rerouted around the blockaded Strait of Hormuz and crude prices eased on hopes the disruption stays limited.
Source: Reuters
Read the original story →Denmark and Greenland said on 19 September that the agreement reached with the United States would not compromise Greenland's sovereignty, after President Trump described the deal as giving Washington permanent control over the island's security. Signing is expected next week at the UN General Assembly; details remain unclear.
Source: Reuters
Read the original story →CNN, MS NOW and Politico journalists were turned away from the White House on 19 September and say their press passes were confiscated; all three signalled First Amendment challenges. In a closely analogous case, a federal judge ruled the government could not punish the Associated Press for the content of its speech and ordered its access restored.
Source: The Associated Press
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