Beijing Readies $297 Billion Data Center Buildout Blitz In Bid To Dominate AI Race

US Has Been Engaged In Major Airstrikes On Pro-Iran Paramilitaries In Iraq Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) said Tuesday that US airstrikes in Anbar, western Iraq, killed 15 of its fighters, including a senior commander. "In a blatant and cowardly attack, the commander of the Anbar Operations in the Popular Mobilization Forces, Saad Dua al-Bayji, was martyred along with a group of his heroic comrades following a treacherous American airstrike that targeted the command headquarters while they were performing their national duty," the PMF said in a statement, according to The...

Dutch Treasury Banking Portal Goes Dark For 1,600 Public Institutions After Cyberattack The Dutch Finance Ministry informed members of Parliament in a letter on Monday about "unauthorized access" to several of its banking systems, including the digital portal for treasury banking. "Because of the ongoing forensic investigation and for security reasons, several systems have been temporarily taken offline, including the digital portal for treasury banking," Finance Minister Eelco Heinen wrote in the letter. Heinen warned that the cyberattack has resulted in "around 1,600 public institutions that hold their funds with the...

Arab States Voice Outrage Over New 'Illegal' Embassy Opening In Jerusalem Via The Cradle Fifteen Arab and Islamic countries condemned on Sunday the decision of the breakaway region of Somaliland to open an embassy in occupied Jerusalem. The foreign ministers of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan, Turkiye, Pakistan, Indonesia, Djibouti, Somalia, Palestine, Oman, Sudan, Yemen, Lebanon, and Mauritania denounced the move in a joint statement on Sunday. The countries condemned "in the strongest terms the illegal and unacceptable step taken by the so-called 'Somaliland' region in opening a purported 'embassy' in occupied Jerusalem," according...