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Feb 24, 2026 - World

Chiquinho and Domingos Brazão accused of ordering shooting of Marielle Franco and her driver in 2018Brazil’s supreme court has opened the trial of politicians accused of ordering the 2018 murder of Rio de Janeiro councillor Marielle Franco, a case that exposed deep ties between politics and organised crime in the city.Franco, an activist who grew up in a favela and became an outspoken critic of Rio’s powerful militia groups, was 38 when she was shot dead in the city centre alongside her driver, Anderson Gomes. Continue reading...

Feb 24, 2026 - World

Anthropic had an early version of its model Claude 1, even before OpenAI launched ChatGPT in 2022, but the company chose not to release it, CEO Dario Amodei has revealed. Claude 1 was launched in March 2023.

Feb 24, 2026 - World

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was evacuated from his official residence over a bomb threat on Tuesday. He was taken to a separate location for several hours.

Feb 24, 2026 - World

Laurence des Cars steps down days after parliamentary inquiry called Paris museum a ‘state within a state’The president of the Louvre in Paris has resigned, four months after a gang of thieves broke into the museum’s Apollo gallery and made off with €88m (£76m) of Napoleonic jewellery in France’s most dramatic heist in decades.Laurence des Cars, who had offered to step down in the immediate aftermath of the burglary, tendered her resignation to Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday in what the French president called “an act of responsibility”, the Elysée Palace said. Continue reading...

Feb 24, 2026 - World

The USS Gerald R. Ford has been at sea since June last year. The Republican leader's decision to extend its deployment for a second time has snowballed into a growing list of problems, such as blocked toilets and sewage troubles.