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Rescue operation recovers 266 survivors as UN warns deadliest season on the route is just beginningPublished On 26 Mar 202626 Mar 2026At least nine people have died, and 45 others are missing, after a boat carrying more than 300 migrants and refugees sank off the coast of Djibouti, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has said.The Djiboutian coastguard said on Thursday that it launched an emergency overnight operation after the vessel, a traditional galba-type boat packed with 320 people, went down near Guehere in the north of the country late on Tuesday.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listRescue teams…

Washington — The United States will extend the pause on strikes on Iranian energy plants by roughly an additional 10 days, at the request of the Iranian government, President Trump announced Thursday on Truth Social.   The president on Monday announced a five-day pause on strikes on Iran’s energy infrastructure in order to negotiate with Iran. The president said he’s extending that pause to the evening of April 6 in the U.S., or April 7 local time in Tehran. “As per Iranian Government request, please let this statement serve to represent that I am pausing the period of Energy Plant destruction by…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The New York Mets season began Thursday night on quite a hilarious note — because why wouldn’t it for the Mets?After the Mets and Pittsburgh Pirates’ 2026 rosters were announced, Tony Award winner Chris Jackson, who played George Washington in “Hamilton,” was brought onto the field for the national anthem.Things got off without a hitch until he moved onto the fourth line of “The Star-Spangled Banner.”  Bo Bichette, Juan Soto, and Francisco Lindor of the Mets listen during the national anthem before their game against the Pittsburgh Pirates at Citi Field on…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Long Island, New York, woman could be in danger as she vanished after suddenly jumping out of a moving vehicle and running off last week, her loved ones said.  Brittany Kritis-Garip, 32, was last seen on surveillance footage in Oyster Bay around 8 p.m. Friday before she was reported missing, News 12 Long Island reported.Her husband, Fernando Garip, said she was in a panicked state, jumped out of a moving car, threw her phone into a bush and ran off. METAL DETECTOR SCANS FRONT YARD OF SAVANNAH GUTHRIE’S MISSING MOTHER AS SISTER…

A scathing watchdog report into the federal government’s multi-billion-dollar Indigenous procurement system has led to renewed calls for the program to be run by First Nations, Inuit and Métis people rather than public servants. Dawn Madhabee Leach with the First Nations Procurement Authority told Global News that the federal government should make Indigenous people responsible for managing the Procurement Strategy for Indigenous Business (PSIB).That’s particularly the case in verifying businesses are legitimately majority-owned by First Nations, Métis or Inuit people before gaining preferential access to government contracts.“When Indigenous people deliver the programs themselves, there’s a higher success rate rather than…

A Dutch court has ordered Elon Musk’s xAI and chatbot Grok not to generate and distribute images “undressing” adults or children, or showing them in sexualised poses with scant or no clothing, without their consent in the Netherlands.The Amsterdam Court’s preliminary injunction, which could set a precedent in Europe, is one of the first times a judge has weighed in on xAI’s responsibility for making tools that can be used to easily create sexualised images, amid a flood of complaints and investigations over Grok around the world.In a written decision on Thursday, the court said xAI and Grok would be…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Country singer Tracy Lawrence is calling out the growing political divide in America — and urging fans to keep it out of country music.In a candid moment, the longtime country artist took aim at what he sees as a deep divide in the nation and shared his hope for a return to a simpler, more inclusive society.”Our journeys are all unique into themselves, but we all share a passion and a love of music,” he said during his conversation with Morgan Evans on the “TL’s Road House” podcast.”What I love about it,…

Back-to-back verdicts this week against Meta and YouTube could usher in a new chapter in accountability for tech companies, while opening the door to fresh legal challenges, experts tell CBS News.Two cases, decided in New Mexico and California, are the first to hold social media companies liable for harming young people.On Tuesday, a New Mexico jury ordered Meta to pay $375 million in civil penalties for failing to protect young users from predators and misleading them about the safety of its apps. In a separate verdict issued Wednesday in Los Angeles, a jury ruled that Meta and YouTube were negligent in…

United Airline flight attendants picketed outside Terminal B at Logan Airport, seeking a new contract.John Tlumacki | Boston Globe | Getty ImagesUnited Airlines and its flight attendant union have reached a tentative labor deal that will include their first raises in roughly six years.If ratified by flight attendants, it would make United the last of the major carriers to secure a labor deal with cabin crew members since the Covid-19 pandemic ended.United said the agreement will include immediate raises and top pay of $100 an hour at the end of the contract, as well as pay for flight attendants during…

Court dismissed xAI claim that measures were taken after plaintiff produced video of nude person shortly before hearing.Published On 26 Mar 202626 Mar 2026A Dutch court has ordered Elon Musk’s xAI to stop generating and distributing nude images of people without their consent in the Netherlands, warning it would impose fines of 100,000 euros ($115,350) per day for noncompliance.The Amsterdam District Court ruled Thursday that xAI’s Grok artificial intelligence tool and the X platform that hosts it were barred from “generating and/or distributing sexual imagery” featuring people “partially or wholly stripped naked without having given their explicit permission”.Recommended Stories list…