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Sanchez cites research EU’s foreign service, which had found that Russia ⁠and ⁠Israel spread and amplified disinformation during the crisis.Published On 31 Aug 202631 Aug 2026Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has accused Israel and Russia of spreading and amplifying disinformation related to the mass influx of migrants to Ceuta last month, citing research by the European External Action Service (EEAS), the European Union’s foreign service.“After July 30 and 31, rumours and disinformation spread on social networks linked to Russia and Israel, and to an ultra-right international that always uses migration to attack both Spain and Europe and divide it,” Sanchez…

The Hungary-based Mathias Corvinus Collegium was headed by Balázs Orbán, a close ally and former political director for Viktor Orbán (no relation). Balázs Orbán stepped down in June, accusing the new government of dismantling the organization — which had around 7,000 students and 300 staff. MCC Brussels was funded almost entirely by a grant from the Budapest-based college. Prime Minister Péter Magyar, who won a landslide election victory in April that ended Orbán’s 16 years in power, has accused MCC of being part of a state-backed network designed to spread the political views of the former ruling party. MCC received…

The rate at which mail votes have been rejected for arriving late has ticked up in primaries this year and general elections last year in roughly a dozen states, prompting election officials to worry that the U.S. Postal Service is ill-equipped to deliver ballots in the fall midterms.The states studied by The New York Times include some of the most critical battleground House and Senate seats where control of Congress will be determined, as well as key races for governor and secretary of state. The Times obtained data from California, Colorado, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Nebraska, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Utah, Virginia,…

Revolution Medicines set a sticker price of about $480,000 a year, or $663 a tablet, for its new pancreatic cancer drug — a cost that would have once been unthinkably high.Today, such prices are routine for cancer drugs.One cutting-edge CAR-T therapy now goes for $600,000 for a one-time infusion. A competitor, given the same way, is listed at $550,000. A daily pill for gastrointestinal cancer has a sticker price of $520,000 a year. A twice-daily pill for leukemia? It’s $430,000 a year.In 2024 alone, nine cancer drugs were approved and then introduced with sticker prices above $400,000 annually, according to…

Nearly every company that’s trying to deploy artificial intelligence runs into the same problem: it’s hard to integrate the tech into everyday operations. Industrial heavyweight Caterpillar has spent decades dealing with a version of that problem in the physical world, and now it’s using its experience to deploy AI. Caterpillar’s push into the autonomous space started with mining, where labor shortages and hazardous conditions can make automation particularly useful. Today, it sells automated haul trucks, drilling, underground loaders, dozers, remote-controlled construction equipment, and more. It also offers a software command center, fleet management, and even remote terrain intelligence as part…

A federal judge has ruled in favor of artificial intelligence company Anthropic in its legal battle against the Pentagon after the government labeled the company as a supply chain risk earlier this year. U.S. District Judge Rita Lin issued a written order Thursday night that the Pentagon acted illegally by punishing the AI company for its criticism of the Department of Defense’s views on AI use. The government is expected to fight the ruling. The dispute between the AI company and the government broke out in February when President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth accused Anthropic of endangering…

Decentralized finance (DeFi) vault infrastructure protocol More Markets had a lending reserve drained of about $9.3 million in digital assets on Flow EVM, according to Web3 security platform Blockaid.The attacker drained about 15.5 million Wrapped Flow (WFLOW) tokens, valued by Blockaid at approximately $9.3 million, from the mFlowWFLOW lending reserve, according to blockchain data shared by Blockaid in a Monday X post.Blockaid said the attacker used Ankr Staked FLOW (ankrFLOW), a liquid staking token, alongside E-mode to overborrow from the reserve.E-mode, short for efficiency mode, is an Aave V3 feature that increases borrowing power for assets whose prices are expected…

Kongsberg Maritime has secured a contract to supply a fully integrated suite of technology and equipment for an offshore installation vessel being built for the joint venture (JV) of Norwegian Solstad Offshore and Netherlands-based SBM Offshore.Source: Kongsberg Maritime Kongsberg Maritime will deliver an advanced deck machinery package which includes anchor-handling winches, shark jaws and tow pins designed for chains up to 220 mm, and a newly developed low-tilt ROV launch and recovery system. Furthermore, the company’s scope also includes dynamic positioning, thruster control, navigation, bridge and automation systems, together with a comprehensive power and energy package comprising switchboards, generators, propulsion…

Nepal’s rescue teams, helped by Chinese and Indian experts, stepped up efforts on Monday to reach hundreds of workers believed to be stuck inside blocked hydropower project tunnels in the aftermath of last week’s Himalayan flood that carved a trail of destruction in the country’s valley towns and villages, as well as across the border in China. The unprecedented deluge of ice, rock, mud and debris along the Nepal-Tibet border on Wednesday – blamed ​on a glacier collapse – killed ‌more than 900 people while nearly 5,000 are still missing. Hundreds of bodies, many unidentified, have been buried in shallow…

The primary season is mostly over and Labor Day, the traditional start of the general election campaign, is just around the corner. It’s time to look into the mailbag, where we received numerous questions about the changes we’ve made to our polling this year.Can you please make some comments about contact method? What is that going to look like? — Jim Clifton, chairman, GallupThe New York Times/Siena Poll has traditionally been a telephone survey, but over the last few years we’ve experimented with most of the major methods for contacting voters. These include sending them text messages (and sometimes offering…