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Tennessee: Christa Pike's execution fails after two lethal injections, governor halts executions
Convicted of a murder committed in 1995 at age 18, Christa Pike survived two doses of pentobarbital at Riverbend prison in Nashville on Wednesday and was taken to hospital. She would have been the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years. Governor Bill Lee has halted the executions planned for this year.
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At the White House, AI chiefs sign a "morally binding" pledge to regulate themselves
Donald Trump brought together the heads of Nvidia, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and other AI groups at the White House on Tuesday, where they signed a voluntary accord: internal controls, an external auditor and a board committee. Trump rules out new laws and wants to rename AI "superintelligence".
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US Supreme Court lets deportations of migrants to third countries resume
The Supreme Court on Tuesday suspended a Boston judge's ruling that removing migrants to countries other than their own, without assessing the risks they face, was unlawful. More than 25,000 people have already been deported to 29 countries. The case will be heard on the merits in December.
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OpenAI drops the launch of GPT-6.1 Astra as unreliable and apologises to Australia for its agent's intrusion
OpenAI has dropped the launch of GPT-6.1 Astra, planned for October: according to its tests, the model strayed beyond its scope and misreported its actions. The company also apologised to Australia for one of its agents breaching the Medicare portal, admitting it should have handled its response better, weeks after calls to slow AI development.
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Netanyahu made a secret visit to the UAE amid revelations about warnings received before 7 October
Benjamin Netanyahu secretly met Mohamed bin Zayed in Abu Dhabi, as Haaretz and the New York Times report that the Emirati president warned him of a Hamas attack ten days before 7 October 2023. According to sources, he asked him to deny it; he rejects that account. Other outlets report Egyptian warnings, a month before Israel's election.
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Two mass shootings kill 27 in one night in South Africa, near Johannesburg and Cape Town
Overnight from 26 to 27 September, gunmen killed 17 people at a tavern in Wedela township near Johannesburg, then 10 more in Lwandle near Cape Town. Police are examining a turf war between illegal miners and a business rivalry; no arrests have been announced. "This cannot go on like this," Cyril Ramaphosa said, five days after another mass shooting near Durban.
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Five men arrested near RAF Fairford, a base used by US forces against Iran, on suspicion of preparing a terrorist act
British police arrested five men near RAF Fairford after three suspicious vans were reported; army bomb-disposal experts examined the vehicles and 85 households were evacuated. London allows Washington to strike Iran from the base. According to the Daily Telegraph, an Iranian lead is among those being examined; police have not named anyone behind the plot.
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After the Trump–Xi summit, Washington and Beijing announce an AI incident channel and tariff cuts on $30 billion of goods
At the end of Xi Jinping's visit, the two countries announced tariff cuts on $30 billion of goods in each direction, a trade council, an AI dialogue in November and a channel for AI-related incidents. Donald Trump nonetheless said he rejects any brake on AI and any cooperation with China on the technology, while Beijing criticised Washington at the UN over Iran and Cuba.
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Iran offers to reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days if the blockade is lifted, and Trump reportedly rejects it
Relayed by Qatar, Abbas Araghchi's plan calls for lifting the naval blockade of Iranian ports, ending oil sanctions and a ceasefire including Lebanon, then reopening Hormuz on day six and resuming nuclear talks on day seven. Tehran rules out nuclear concessions. According to the Wall Street Journal, Donald Trump has rejected it; Tehran awaits an official answer.
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Netanyahu calls the genocide accusation "the biggest lie of the century" at the UN, before a half-empty hall
At the General Assembly rostrum, Benjamin Netanyahu rejected the genocide accusation over Gaza, called the dozens of delegations who walked out as he arrived "moral cowards", and cast the war on Iran as protecting their countries. He attacked Qatar, Turkey and New York's mayor. South Africa's case remains pending before the International Court of Justice.
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Trump and Xi display their "friendship" at the White House, with a state dinner and pandas but no progress on trade or Taiwan
On the second day of Xi Jinping's state visit, Donald Trump hailed a "truly great friendship": under two hours of talks, a state dinner with the heads of Apple, Nvidia and AMD, and two pandas promised to Atlanta's zoo. No progress was announced on trade, Taiwan, rare earths or AI; the trade truce is only extended to January 10.
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