A man opened fire on relatives of his ex-wife during a reconciliation meeting outside Cairo on Thursday, 13 August, killing four people and wounding two others in an attack that has renewed alarm in Egypt over a string of extreme family and social violence. The shooting took place in the 15th of May district, south…
Five people have been found dead and 41 are missing after an Indonesian ferry carrying at least 250 people caught fire while at sea, officials say. The captain of the ship reported the fire – off Madura island – as the vessel sailed from the country’s second-largest city, Surabaya in East Java, to Makassar in…
Leopold Aschenbrenner Photo: Josh Edelson Two years ago, Leopold Aschenbrenner argued he was one of few people in the world who saw the future clearly. In a sprawling, 165-page essay that became required reading in Silicon Valley, the former OpenAI researcher positioned himself as a kind of prophet for the coming age of artificial super…
Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouli said preliminary investigations indicate that a fire which broke out aboard two vessels at Damietta Port on Wednesday was caused by a drone, adding that authorities are continuing their inquiry to determine the full circumstances of the incident. Speaking during the government’s weekly meeting in New Alamein City on Thursday, Madbouli…
A fire involving two gas vessels at Damietta Port was brought under control on Wednesday, 29 July, with no injuries or fatalities reported, according to Egypt’s Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources. The ministry said the fire affected a regasification vessel and a gas storage vessel at the Mediterranean port. Emergency response procedures were activated…
Foreign Minister Penny Wong has said she wants Australia to be an active, “architect” middle power – a stabilizer, mediator, and constructive partner in the Indo-Pacific. For anyone concerned about peace in Australia’s neighborhood, that is good to hear, because a number of factors are conspiring to make future conflict more likely: the return of…
