Start your day informed with the AnewZ Morning Brief. Here are the top stories for the 19th of May, covering the latest developments you need to know.
The 13th United Nations World Urban Forum (WUF13) continues in Baku with sessions and roundtables focused on urban development and global housing challenges. Leaders’ statements brought together heads of state, who praised Baku’s role as a global dialogue hub and discussed large-scale reconstruction and sustainable development efforts. Azerbaijan’s experience in rebuilding liberated territories and advancing smart city and green energy projects was prominently showcased at the Urban Expo.
U.S. President Donald Trump said he has paused a planned attack on Iran after receiving what he described as a peace proposal from Tehran, suggesting there is a “very good chance” of reaching a deal to limit Iran’s nuclear programme. He added that Washington would be satisfied with any agreement preventing Iran from developing a nuclear weapon. Meanwhile, regional tensions continued to rise, with reports of multiple attacks on Israeli forces in southern Lebanon claimed by Hezbollah.
Two teenage suspects opened fire outside the Islamic Centre of San Diego on Monday, killing a security guard and two men before being found dead in a vehicle nearby. Authorities said the attackers may have also killed three people inside the centre, though details remain under investigation. San Diego Police confirmed there is no ongoing threat to the public and said the FBI is treating the case as a potential hate crime.
A luxury polar expedition vessel, MV Hondius, arrived in Rotterdam after a hantavirus outbreak on board left three people dead and several others infected. Dutch health authorities confirmed eight confirmed and two probable cases, with the final 27 people on board placed into quarantine upon arrival. Officials said the bodies of two passengers have been repatriated, while another will be cremated in the Netherlands. Authorities stressed that there is no risk to the public in Rotterdam.
A U.S. jury in Oakland, California has ruled against Elon Musk in his lawsuit against OpenAI, finding the company not liable for claims that it abandoned its original mission to benefit humanity. The jury concluded that Musk filed the case too late and reached its decision after less than two hours of deliberation following an 11-day trial. Musk had alleged that OpenAI misled him and shifted toward a for-profit model after receiving his early contributions, including $38 million.
Peace is Armenia’s only reliable guarantee of security, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has said in comments in Dublin, where he also...
Hungarian authorities have recovered nearly $20 million in cash hidden in buildings and buried in forests as part of a bribery investigation into M...
U.S. President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping are set to hold a historic trilateral meeting in She...
European leaders gathered in Dublin on Thursday, 12 November, for the ninth European Political Community (EPC) summit, with security, defence and energy high on the agenda. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev held talks focused on peace, trade and regional cooperation.
Iran’s Assembly of Experts has backed withdrawing from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and overhauling the country’s defence doctrine, calling both steps essential to national security and deterrence.
President Vladimir Putin agreed on Thursday to let European representatives join the next round of Ukraine peace talks while the United States continues to work towards what could become the largest prisoner exchange of the Russia-Ukraine war.
Microsoft struggled to restore its services on Friday after a major outage disrupted Outlook, Teams and Copilot across the United States and Asia-Pacific region.
Here's your AnewZ Technology Daily Brief for the 13th of November. This week, a Microsoft outage hit Australian agencies, Google restricted mapping data in South Korea, a lawsuit targeted advanced AI development, and Nvidia faced a leadership crisis after Jensen Huang's resignation.
Hungarian authorities have recovered nearly $20 million in cash hidden in buildings and buried in forests as part of a bribery investigation into Miklós Seszták, a former minister under ex-Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
U.S. President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping are set to hold a historic trilateral meeting in Shenzhen on 19 November. The White House says the talks will focus on nuclear arms reductions, with Iran also on the agenda.
U.S. negotiators floated the idea of Ukraine withdrawing from the eastern Donbas region in exchange for NATO membership, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said.
China is taking its space technology ambitions beyond its borders, with a major deal to build a network of 20 artificial intelligence-powered satellites for Oman.
Europe will send a team of diplomats to Ukraine peace talks rather than a single envoy, EU leaders agreed on Friday at the end of a summit in Dublin.
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