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President Donald Trump on Sunday announced the formation of a 'Super Intelligence Force (SIF)' to keep the United States (US) ahead in the artificial intelligence (AI) race. This comes days after he after the US could lose to China if it tries to slow down its AI development, downplaying the critics and describing them as 'negative forces'. The 80-year-old Republican leader who is in his second term as the US President said the SIF would be headed by National Intelligence (NI) chief Jay Clayton, and would include Federal Trade Commission (FTC) chairperson Andrew Ferguson and Emil Michael, who is the…

Iran on Sunday dismissed reports linking it to Wednesday's flydubai incident, describing them as 'baseless' and 'fabricated', while stressing the Islamic Republic remains completely prepared to defend itself. The remarks were made by Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei, who said the country was accused completely on the basis of "fabricated evidence". He also called it an attempt by Israel and its European partners to divert the attention from what is happening in Gaza, calling it a "worn-out tactic". "This is merely a reminder of an experience that the world has witnessed for itself over the past seven months," Baqaei…

A pharmaceutical plant in Ukraine's Sumy was hit in a Russian drone attack, leaving one person dead and several others injured, said President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday.  Multiple media reports claimed that the plant belonged to Kusum Healthcare, an Indian pharmaceutical plant; however, no official confirmation has been provided yet. Meanwhile, Zelenskyy condemned the attack and said his prayers are with the kin of the deceased. He also said the Russians have also targeted the Pivnichnyi Bridge in Kyiv and a communications facility in Dnipro, leaving many people injured. He said the Russians have targeted Ukraine with more than 1,900…

Islamabad: Pakistan is bracing for a protest by jailed former prime minister Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party after talks between the government and opposition failed to break the deadlock. The party has announced that its planned long march towards Islamabad will go ahead. The second round of talks between government negotiators and Khan's party leaders began at 4 pm on Saturday and continued through the night before ending early Sunday without an agreement. The PTI had initially announced plans for a long march to Islamabad on September 27. The protest was later postponed to October 4 after the federal…

Dubai: Al Qaeda has called for copycat attacks targeting American and Israeli airliners, invoking the September 11, 2001 attacks and praising an alleged hijacking attempt aboard a flydubai flight bound for Tel Aviv, the New York Post reported. According to the report, the call appeared in the latest edition of al-Bayan, a weekly publication launched in July by pro-Al Qaeda supporters. The publication was reportedly circulated on the group's Telegram channels before being taken down. The article reportedly referenced both the 9/11 attacks and the September 30 attempted takeover of flydubai Flight FZ1073, which was carrying more than 170 passengers…

Dubai: Captain Smit Machchhar, the Indian pilot who was seriously injured during the flydubai FZ1073 cockpit attack, has given Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a detailed account of what happened during the flight on September 30. Netanyahu spoke to Machchhar over a video call while the captain is undergoing treatment at a hospital in the UAE. During the conversation, Netanyahu asked about his health and praised his courage. Machchhar then described how a routine flight suddenly turned into a dangerous emergency inside the cockpit. At the end of the conversation, Netanyahu also invited Machchhar and Prime Minister Narendra Modi to…

Washington: As the Middle East conflict continues to escalate, US President Donald Trump said Washington will decide on Iran, warning that the outcome would come either the "easy way or the hard way" while asserting that Tehran has been "decimated". I will decide for Iran: Trump  "We have a decision that I will make about Iran. Iran has been decimated. So the only question is, it will either be the easy way or the hard way. We will have it the easy way or the hard way," Trump said to reporters outside the White House. The US President continued to…

Jerusalem: The identities of the two additional pilots who helped bring a flydubai flight under control during a mid-air cockpit attack remain undisclosed, even three days after the incident. Flydubai has only said that the two were members of its crew who were travelling as passengers on the same aircraft. The airline has not explained why their identities have not been made public. Why were two additional pilots on the flight? Passenger Daniel Schlichter, who was seated in the second row, described the incident and said the presence of the two additional pilots was nothing short of a miracle. According…