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Saudi, Egypt demand open Red Sea, as Riyadh vows to hit back against Houthis

Saudi, Egypt demand open Red Sea, as Riyadh vows to hit back against Houthis Saudi Arabia and Egypt called for safe shipping in the Red Sea after the Houthis took control of the Bab al-Mandab Strait and attacked Saudi-linked ships. The Houthis have been engaged in renewed fighting with Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces since the country's civil war reignited in July, when the group also declared a maritime blockade on Riyadh and began targeting its ships in the Red Sea. In a lightning...

Israeli ‘influence campaign against Qatar’ launched after October 7 attack

Israeli ‘influence campaign against Qatar’ launched after October 7 attack Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports that about 30 people, including influence experts and an ex-Mossad official, were part of an anti-Qatar group. A group of Israeli influence experts and political advisers worked on a secret campaign targeting Qatar in the weeks after the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 attacks, before the initiative was abruptly halted, according to a report by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. The campaign...

Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz's 'effective altruism' network tied to AI regulation push

Concerns about artificial intelligence spelling doom for the human race are being linked to a "cult-like" philanthropy movement known as "effective altruism" supported by billionaire Democratic megadonor and Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, according to a policy analyst. In response to former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon’s resignation announcement on X, Parker Thayer, an investigative researcher at Capital Research Center in Washington D.C., went viral as he raised questions about...