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Political and business leaders descended on Paris this week for the third annual artificial intelligence summit with the technology causing tensions across the globe.

Emmanuel Macron, who opened the summit with a montage of deepfakes of himself, acknowledged AI’s potential to “disrupt”. A day later, the schism threatened by the …

Ministers are trying to “mission-wash” every item of spending in their departments, according to officials, before a spending review at which Rachel Reeves has demanded they justify every pound they receive.

Sources have told the Guardian that secretaries of state and their officials are looking for ways to link their …

Two Jerusalem booksellers detained this week on charges their books were causing “public disorder” have said the experience reflected an intensifying campaign by the Israeli government against Palestinian culture and free speech.

Mahmoud Muna and his nephew Ahmed, whose family has owned the Educational Bookshop for more than 40 years, …

A legal bid to establish whether or not the Irish government entered a secret pact with the UK to defend Irish airspace in the event of a terrorist attack will be heard in Ireland’s high court on Friday.

It comes as taoiseach Micheál Martin admits that Ireland’s defence spending, one …

American Patrick Reed has sparked wild scenes and been showered in drinks after sinking a hole-in-one during the first round of the LIV Golf event in Adelaide.

The former US Masters champion aced the famous watering hole on just his second hole of the day as the tournament got off …

It has been several years since Japanese women first

signalled their contempt

A Texas judge has ordered a New York doctor to immediately stop prescribing and mailing abortion pills to patients in Texas, setting up a challenge to state “shield laws” that could reach the US supreme court.

In his order Thursday, Judge Bryan Gantt of Collin county district court ordered Dr …

For more than a decade Kazuhide Inoue has played an understated part in protecting the morals of adolescents in Fukuoka. Several times a year, the 73-year-old visits eight white “post boxes” installed in the city in western

Japan

• Moldova and Nato member Romania announced they had summoned Russia’s ambassadors after its drones struck their territory.

  Russia has been targeting port infrastructure in Ukraine’s south, close to the borders with Romania and Moldova. “Shahed drones violated our airspace, two exploded on our soil, putting Moldovan lives at …

Spicy, woody and sweet: it sounds like a description of a fancy air freshener. But researchers say the mix of aromas arise from something rather different: mummies.

Researchers have used both human noses and scientific instruments to probe how ancient Egyptian mummies smell today, and to what extent the odours …