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The payments firm also joins Big Tech firms and Wall Street titans, which are executing layoffs across corporate America as companies look to rein in costs to ride out the downturn.

The AI classifier, a language model trained on the dataset of pairs of human-written and AI-written text on the same topic, aims to distinguish text that is written by AI.

The weapons aid is expected to be announced as soon as this week, the officials said.

Crater, who was sentenced to 100 months in total and ordered to forfeit nearly $7.7 million, is expected to appeal.

It took months of Ukraine's appeals before Western countries last week pledged modern battle tanks, and Kyiv wants jets sooner rather than later.

Many tens of thousands of people cheered as he travelled from the airport into the capital Kinshasa in his popemobile, with some breaking away to chase it while others chanted and waved flags.

Millions have been killed, and millions more have been displaced by the violence in the east since the 1990s.

Digital asset investment products, often favored by institutional investors, saw inflows of over $117 million last week, the biggest weekly increase since last July, according to data from asset manager CoinShares.

FTX and Voyager both filed for bankruptcy amid a 2022 collapse in cryptocurrency markets, but Voyager's bankruptcy preceded FTX's filing by four months.

The continent is facing its worst food crisis ever, with more than one in five Africans - a record 278 million people - facing hunger, according to United Nations estimates.

"Today Tunisians issued a final verdict rejecting Kais Saied's process and elections," Nejib Chebbi, head of the main opposition coalition, the Salvation Front, told a news conference.

Both countries are rich in natural resources - DRC in minerals and South Sudan in oil - but beset with poverty and strife.

The second round will come on Sunday, two days after Issa's trial is due to begin and after a string of prosecutions of other critics of the president.

Yellen said she would meet later Friday with philanthropists and private sector officials to discuss their plans to back the massive project aimed at phasing out fossil fuel use.

The outbreak of the conflict between Ukraine and Russia, two major producers, disrupted the fertilizer supply to the continent.

Yellen spoke after touring Ford's plant in Silverton, a suburb of Pretoria, where she got behind the wheel of bright yellow new Ranger pickup truck and spoke with workers and company officials.

FTX said Guarding Against Pandemics' multimillion-dollar Washington, D.C., headquarters was purchased with misappropriated funds.

The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday condemned an offensive by M23 rebels in the east of the country that forced 450 people, including women and children, to seek refuge around its base in Kitshanga town.

Air raid alarms sounded across Ukraine on Thursday as people headed to work. In the capital Kyiv, crowds took cover for a time in underground metro stations.

Too little water during the irrigation peak affects the size and quality of a wide variety of apple and pear cultivars, hitting produce and revenue.

South Africa and its neighbours were at the centre of a tussle for influence this week when top Russian and U.S.

The 44-year-old entered the United Nations camp, just a few kilometres from his residence, in search of safety three days after conflict broke out in 2013.

Islamic Jihad confirmed battling the Israeli forces as they carried out the unusually deep raid into Jenin's refugee camp, a militant bastion.

Three years after the 27-nation EU agreed to restrict visas for countries deemed failing to cooperate on taking their people back, only Gambia has been formally punished.

The company has hired investment bank Standard Chartered to run the sale process, which could raise up to $1 billion, the sources said.

La Spezia is the furthest and northernmost destination that Italy has assigned to an NGO ship.

President Joe Biden announced the decision at the White House, saying the tanks are needed to help the Ukrainians "improve their ability to maneuver in open terrain."

A former lawmaker and a fierce critic of the government, Lissu initially left the country to seek treatment abroad after he was shot 16 times in an attack by unknown gunmen in the administrative capital Dodoma in 2017.

The incident happened on Tuesday night between Nasarawa and Benue states in north central Nigeria.