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KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition is “almost certain” to contest the next general election independently, said its chairman Ahmad Zahid Hamidi. However, there would still be a need to reach some understanding with other political blocs, he added in an interview with news outlet New Straits Times (NST).”We have gone solo before,” he told NST in an exclusive interview marking the 80th anniversary of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), BN’s lynchpin party which Zahid also heads as president.”We contested solo in GE15 (Malaysi’s 15th general election in November 2022) and in the general election before that,” he added…

A potential pullback by Middle East sovereign wealth funds could drain hundreds of billions of dollars from the artificial intelligence boom and threaten key data center projects, according to tech investor Jack Selby.Middle East investors — including sovereign wealth funds and government entities — account for roughly a quarter of global investments committed to AI over the next five years, said Selby, who is managing director of Peter Thiel’s family office, Thiel Capital. If the Iran war drags on, and the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and other countries divert their investments to rebuilding at home, the lost capital could…

Arrest of 39-year-old comes after Swiss company HiPP last month issued product recall over tainted baby food jars.Published On 3 May 20263 May 2026A man has been arrested in Austria over the discovery of rat poison in a popular brand of baby food, according to police.The arrest comes after the Swiss company HiPP last month issued a partial recall of its products after authorities found rat poison and an unspecified “toxic additive” in jars of baby food sold in Austria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listHiPP, which bills itself as the world’s top organic…

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Brent crude oil price rose for two consecutive weeks, reaching its highest point since March 16 this year. It ended the week at $109 as investors reflected on the ongoing developments in the Middle East, where the fragile ceasefire between the United States and Iran continued.Donald Trump reviewing the Iran proposalBrent crude oil price surged last week after Admiral Brad Cooper met with the White House and updated it on the potential plans for the war. His three options were of a limited strike against Iran to push it towards a deal, a plan to take the highly enriched uranium,…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Sharon Stone proves she’s “still got it” with her new bikini photo.The 68-year-old movie star shared a photo of herself dressed in a patterned bikini with red, purple, green and black accents on Instagram, captioning the post, “summers around the corner! happy Friday my loves.”In the photo, she is posing next to a swimming pool with her hair tied back, and with her eyes covered with leaves as she holds up a small twig near her face.She accessorized the bikini with an orange necklace and a smirk on her face.SHARON STONE TOOK…

The steering wheel on an Inceptio Technology autonomous truck in Jinan, Shandong Province, China, on Thursday, April 18, 2024.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesBEIJING — While AI updates make headlines every few weeks, those advances are not enough to get self-driving vehicles on the road more quickly. That’s according to Chinese autonomous trucking companies, who say that improvements in large language model, from Anthropic’s Claude to China’s DeepSeek, have little impact on the timeline for vehicle deployment. “The world’s best linguistics [expert] doesn’t mean he’s a good driver,” Pony.ai CEO James Peng told reporters last week. “AI is a very…

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EXPLAINERIran has sent the US a new 14-point proposal to end the war.Published On 3 May 20263 May 2026United States President Donald Trump says he will review the latest Iranian proposal to end the war but has expressed doubt that the new plan will lead to a deal as the two sides have escalated their rhetoric.Tehran has sent a 14-point plan to Washington, calling for guarantees of nonaggression, sanctions relief, the lifting of a naval blockade and an end to the war “on all fronts”, including in Lebanon. This proposal seeks to postpone nuclear talks to a later stage, an…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! NEW YORK CITY — A group financed by a pro-Chinese Communist Party tech tycoon was one of the first on the scene for Friday’s May Day demonstrations and socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s remarks.The People’s Forum, which received funding from Shanghai-based Neville Roy Singham, was a key player in organizing protesters in Union Square ahead of the May Day events, working closely with leaders from the Party for Socialism and Liberation.A self-identified speaker from the Party for Socialism and Liberation announced a People’s Forum spokesperson who was the second to speak at the…