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Charles Spencer’s memoir contains a series of allegations about his sister, Princess Diana’s, former marriage to Britain’s King Charles and the aftermath of her death.

British Columbia sued OpenAI in California ‌on Monday, saying a mass shooting at a school in the province ⁠could have been prevented if the company had warned local law enforcement that the shooter had used ChatGPT to plan the ⁠massacre.

Youth gangs disrupt rallies, civil rights meetings and polling stations, yet the politicians who bankroll them go unpunished, writes Guyo Chepe Turi in ISS Today.

The Trump administration plans to set a refugee admissions ceiling of 17 500 over the next 12 months consisting “primarily” of South Africans from the country’s white Afrikaner ethnic minority, according to a notice sent to Congress on Tuesday.

Politico, MS NOW and CNN reporters were barred from the White House on Thursday, ‌just hours after a judge deemed President Donald ⁠Trump’s ban of the three news outlets likely unconstitutional and ordered ⁠their access immediately restored.

Mexican cartels have been setting up massive methamphetamine laboratories in South Africa, which supply the huge demand for the drug in Australia and New Zealand, investigators say.

The Trump administration must immediately reinstate White House access for CNN, MS NOW and Politico, a US federal judge has ordered, after their reporters were banned from the premises.

Italy’s Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli ordered ‌the closure of the ⁠Colosseum to be extended until Thursday as a ⁠mark of respect after a worker was killed overnight in an accident.

Terrorism, kidnapping and crumbling roads are combining to choke a trade lifeline linking Cameroon, Chad and Nigeria, write Célestin Delanga and Remadji Hoinathy in ISS Today.

Hayden Panettiere died from accidental fentanyl toxicity combined with other drugs, a US coroner said.

Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party won a record supermajority in the Duma, authorities announced on Monday, following a tightly controlled three-day election in which parties critical of the Kremlin or the war in Ukraine were barred.

In an interview, Charles Spencer said Harry and Meghan should be given official security, warning they are treated by the media much like Diana was before her death in 1997.

US President Donald Trump used his UN General Assembly speech on Tuesday to argue that the war with Iran prevented Tehran ‌from obtaining a nuclear weapon and warn that he could “annihilate the Islamic Republic” if no deal is reached ⁠to end the conflict.

US President Donald Trump said Friday that he had struck a deal with Denmark to give Washington “permanent control” over Greenland’s security that would bar Russia and China from setting up bases in the Arctic territory.

Presley Gerber, the son of supermodel Cindy Crawford, died on Sunday aged 27.

Ed Sheeran said the situation in Gaza is “unjustifiable,” following a wave of criticism after his opening act was booted from his tour due to making pro-Palestinian comments.

Artists in Gaza have painted a mural of Macklemore wrapped in a Palestinian flag on a huge slab of concrete in the ruins of Gaza City, after the US rapper was kicked off Ed Sheeran’s upcoming tour for calling for a “Free Palestine”.

Growing competition for African ports and security partnerships offers new leverage – if countries can avoid deeper geopolitical fragmentation, writes Priyal Singh in ISS Today.

King Charles III will urge tech giants to ensure that artificial intelligence is geared to serve humanity and that mankind does “not lose control”, during a conference in Scotland on Thursday.

Iran on Thursday gave a Swedish diplomat in Tehran 48 hours to leave the country, after Sweden had expelled a staff member from the Iranian embassy in Stockholm.