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AI poses ‘Hiroshima’-style threat to humanity without global rules, says Cooper
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The Guardian · World

AI poses ‘Hiroshima’-style threat to humanity without global rules, says Cooper

Exclusive: Foreign secretary warns of combined risks of AI, climate crisis, irregular migration and foreign interferenceArtificial intelligence poses a “Hiroshima”-style risk to humanity if governments do not agree to curb how it is developed, the foreign secretary has warned.Yvette Cooper urged cou...

Kiran Stacey Policy editor
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At least 25 people die in US as record heatwave scorches swaths of country
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The Guardian · World

At least 25 people die in US as record heatwave scorches swaths of country

More than 20 states reported temperatures above 100F as heat dome sits over eastern US during holiday weekendAt least about two dozen people have died amid the perilous climate crisis-driven heatwave that has scorched swaths of the US with record temperatures.As a huge heat dome sits over the county...

Lucy Campbell
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The Atlantic republishes JD Vance’s anti-Trump essay from 10 years ago
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The Guardian · World

The Atlantic republishes JD Vance’s anti-Trump essay from 10 years ago

Magazine invites readers to judge Vance’s ‘assessment’ of Trump, whom he called ‘cultural heroin’ during first termThe Atlantic on Saturday republished a JD Vance essay that dismissed Donald Trump as “cultural heroin” exactly 10 years earlier, bringing back to the fore his evolving from a critic of...

Lucy Campbell
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EasyJet agrees to £5bn takeover by US investment firm
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The Guardian · World

EasyJet agrees to £5bn takeover by US investment firm

Agreement in principle with Castlelake follows several rejected offers and means UK’s biggest low-cost carrier will be taken private EasyJet has agreed a £5bn takeover by US investment firm Castlelake that will see Britain’s biggest low-cost airline taken private.The companies announced an agreement...

Jasper Jolly
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FBI seized more than 600 drones flying over World Cup games in US cities
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The Guardian · World

FBI seized more than 600 drones flying over World Cup games in US cities

Agency says drones had been caught across all 11 US host cities in restricted airspace since tournament beganMore than 600 drones flying over restricted World Cup airspace in the US have been seized since the tournament began in June, the FBI said on Saturday – including 99 captured flying in Miami,...

Edward Helmore
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Iran seeks to tighten control over strait of Hormuz alongside Khamenei funeral
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The Guardian · World

Iran seeks to tighten control over strait of Hormuz alongside Khamenei funeral

IRGC warnings force ships to turn back as Tehran uses passages from Qur’an to send messages to Gulf delegationsThe diplomatic and military contest for control of the strait of Hormuz has intensified alongside the dramatic scenes of mourning for the death of Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei, with s...

Patrick Wintour in Tehran
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