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The International Cricket Council (ICC) Champions Trophy will return after an eight-year break, and Pakistan will hold a tournament from February 19th to March 9th. The tournament will be the ICC’s only men’s limited over competition in 2025, with eight teams competing to lift the trophy and adorn the winner’s white blazer. This is the ultimate guide to Al Jazeera tournaments: What is the Champions Trophy? Why is it so important to Pakistan? Originally named ICC Knockout, the championship was devised as an elite tournament among cricket test-play countries, to close the four-year gap between the ICC’s 50-over World Cup…
The Large Language Model (LLMS) reached the European Digital Sovereignty Agenda last week. This is because news of a new programme has been revealed that it will develop a series of “truly” open source LLMs covering all European Union languages. This includes the current 24 official EU languages and the languages of countries currently negotiating for entry into EU markets such as Albania. Future Proof is the name of the game. Openeurollm is co-led with around 20, co-led by Jan Hajič, a computational linguist at Charles University in Prague, and Peter Sarlin, CEO and co-founder of Finland’s AI Lab Silo…
The Russian drone strike damaged the Mikolife thermal power plant in southern Ukraine overnight, leaving 46,000 consumers without heating as temperatures plummeted below freezing, Ukrainian prime minister Schmichal said. “This was done intentionally to create a humanitarian catastrophe without heat at temperatures below zero,” Shmyhal said on the Telegram Messenger app. Russia attacked Ukraine with 143 drones overnight, but the Ukrainian forces fired 95 of them, while 46 said they didn’t reach the target thanks to the use of electromagnetic countermeasures to destroy the drone attack. Ukrainian officials said at least one person was injured in the overnight attack and…
Two-time World Cross Country champions will record a 56 minutes and 42 seconds clock at the World Athletics race in Barcelona.Uganda’s Jacob Ki Primo recorded a spectacular new world record time of 42.42.2 for Barcelona, becoming the first to break the 57-minute barrier of the half marathon. The 24-year-old set a record for the World Athletics Gold Label Road Race on Sunday. Kiploimo is the two-time World Cross Country Champion who held the half marathon record from 2021 to 2024. He regained it by cutting 48 seconds from the previous record set by Ethiopia’s Yomifuke Jercha in October. This is…
Chinese jets are telling Canadian warships to pass through the Taiwan Strait and change course.Taiwan has detected 24 Chinese military aircraft near the island by Canadian warships passing through the sensitive Taiwan Strait, says Taiwan’s Ministry of Defense. Chinese aircraft include fighter jets and drones, and on Sunday they conducted a “joint combat readiness patrol” with military vessels around Taiwan, the province said in a statement. Chinese troops radioed that Canadian frigates would pass through the Taiwan Strait and warned them to change courses, Taiwanese media reported. Halifax-class frigate HMCS Ottawa was the first Canadian naval vessel to pass through…
Local officials and witnesses report that they saw the rebels enter the second largest city in the eastern DRC after a rapid advance.The Rwanda-backed M23 rebels entered Bukabu, the second largest city in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) after moving forward rapidly within the country. Local officials, security sources and five witnesses reported seeing the rebels on Sunday, but a militia spokesman told Reuters that “we’re there.” The armed groups have been moving forward in the capital of South Kivu province since seizing Goma city in late January. The collapse of Bukabu, if confirmed, represents the most…
Some of the attacks were by Israeli settlers supported by soldiers.Israeli forces and settlers continue to raid and attack civilians in various parts of the occupied West Bank, with at least five attacks on Saturday and overnight. Here’s the breakdown of the situation: Attack: Israeli forces attacked the town of Al-Isawiya, near eastern Jerusalem, causing conflict with residents, according to the town’s mayor, Palestinian news agency WAFA reports. No injuries have been reported. Israeli soldiers, supported by military vehicles, raided the home of former Palestinian prisoner Saeed Steay, and raided Sarphite, a city near Jerusalem on the central west coast,…
Sudan’s Paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has intensified attacks on the Zamzam refugee camp near Elfasher, the capital of North Darfur. On Friday, residents and hygienists said the RSF attacked the camp and was surrounded three times within a week. At least seven people have died this week in camp, a borderless doctor known for French Initial MSF added that Medic cannot perform surgery at Zamzam. Stephen Dujaric, a spokesman for the UN Secretary-General, said the new battles include the use of heavy weapons, urging political parties fighting to stop violence. The RSF is said to be trying to grip…
Sutir Balaji, a former Openai employee, was found dead on November 26th in an apartment in San Francisco. On Friday, a city medical inspector ruled his death as a suicide, countering allegations that promoted widespread speculation by his family online. Balaji made the headline in October when he accused Openai of training AI models using copyrighted materials. He publicly shared his concerns and provided information to the New York Times. The New York Times later named him an important person with “unique and relevant documents” in the paper’s lawsuit against Openai. His revelation has come among increasing numbers of publishers…
The key developments of the 1,0888th day of the full-scale invasion of Russia in Ukraine are:The situation for Sunday, February 16th is as follows: Fineting Ukrainian President Voldimi Zelensky said he hoped President Donald Trump’s special mission to Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, to visit the eastern frontline of his country and report to Trump about the reality of the earth. I said that. “It’s very important to me that he’s seeing this,” Zelensky told a security conference in Munich. “I really want him to bring all this to President Trump… show it to him and tell him.” Russia’s military in December…