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What would Arab or Muslim troops patrolling Gaza do if they came under Israeli fire? Arab diplomats and officials with experience in peacekeeping say the potentially explosive scenario hovers over plans for an “International Stabilisation Force” to deploy to the enclave. “This is not hypothetical. Unifil peacekeepers in southern Lebanon came under attack from Israel,” a United Nations official with decades of peacekeeping experience in the region told Middle East Eye, referring to peacekeepers from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) who were hit by several Israeli strikes over the last two years.  “There, we had Irish and…

Oracle’s extended rally, which has been driven by the company’s increasingly central position in the artificial intelligence boom, hit pause on Friday, with the stock tumbling 7%, its worst day since January.The slide came a day after the software company revealed a long-term outlook, boosted by AI, at an analysts’ meeting that was part of the Oracle AI World conference in Las Vegas.Oracle said on Thursday that it expects $166 billion in cloud infrastructure revenue in the 2030 fiscal year, up from $18 billion in fiscal 2026. The company now sees $21 in adjusted earnings per share on $225 billion…

Oct 17, 2025, 03:21 PM ETLaLiga players launched protests against the league’s decision to stage a regular-season game in Miami, but the first protest on Friday was not shown on live television as expected.The world television feed of the game at Real Oviedo against Espanyol cut to the exterior of the stadium for the first 25 seconds of the game, when players paused for the opening 15 seconds in opposition of plans to take a game to the United States.The game came just hours after the Spanish soccer players’ union announced that protests would be held straight after kickoff in…

George Santos, the Republican who won a congressional seat by fabricating details of his life story, then went to prison for fraud, was given clemency by President Donald Trump on Friday. “George Santos was somewhat of a ‘rogue,’ but there are many rogues throughout our Country that aren’t forced to serve seven years in prison,” Trump wrote on social media. “Good luck George, have a great life!” Trump concluded.Here is a timeline of Santos’ extraordinary rise and fall.Nov. 8, 2022: Santos defeats Democrat Robert Zimmerman in the first known congressional election featuring two openly gay candidates. The district includes a…

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Dogs dressed up as everything from Elvis Presley to Scooby Doo’s Mystery Machine went trick-or-treating in Michigan’s capital Friday as part of the annual Howloween event organized by a local pet store.The costumed canines made a loop through Lansing’s Old Town arts district, stopping outside restaurants, gift shops and jewelry stores, where owners were waiting to provide treats and a scratch behind the ears.Wendy Beck’s pooch, Bella, “got filled up on biscuits” and had to stop along the route for a power nap. It was the 9-year-old St. Bernard’s first Howloween, but Alicia Town’s dog, Mojo,…

Morgan Whittaker repaid Rob Edwards’ faith with his first goal for the club to send them back to the top of the Championship after a chaotic 2-1 win over Ipswich.Edwards publicly backed Whittaker after his substitution was cheered by fans against Preston in September, and he was proven right in emphatic fashion. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player Morgan Whittaker scores his first goal for Middlesbrough against Ipswich! Boro had Cedric Kipre to thank for the lead prior to Whittaker’s strike after he turned the ball into his own net less than two minutes after his…

The impact of artificial intelligence is being felt across the health-care industry, from tools that help analyze medical images, aid in drug discovery and complete cancer screenings.But increasingly, AI is being used to fight one of the biggest challenges that health care is facing: a time-challenged (and often burned out) workforce of doctors, nurses and support staff that wants to focus more on patients and care instead of other arduous administrative tasks.That’s leading health-care technology stalwarts like Epic Systems to invest in a variety of AI features that can do everything from helping patients book appointments or understand lab results…

Big banks including JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs had just finished taking victory laps after a blockbuster quarter when concerns emerged from an obscure corner of Wall Street, sending a collective shiver through global finance.Regional bank Zions late Wednesday disclosed a near total wipeout on $60 million in loans after finding “apparent misrepresentations” from the borrowers. The next day, peer Western Alliance said that it had sued the same borrower, a commercial real estate firm called the Cantor Group, for alleged fraud.The result was a sudden and deep selloff among regional banks, drawing comparisons to the churn of the 2023…

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will immediately pause, and consider canceling, over $11 billion in projects due to the government shutdown, Trump administration budget chief Russell Vought said Friday.”The Democrat shutdown has drained the Army Corps of Engineers’ ability to manage billions of dollars in projects,” Vought, the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, said in an X post.The paused funds pertain to “lower-priority projects” in cities including New York, San Francisco, Boston and Baltimore, Vought said.The Army Corps of Engineers, which provides a wide range of public engineering services and comprises more than 37,000…

Oct 17, 2025, 02:10 PM ETArsenal manager Mikel Arteta and Los Angeles Rams coach Sean McVay can take their bromance to new levels this weekend.Their teams — both owned by Stan Kroenke — are playing in the same city. To boot, their respective opponents — Fulham and the Jacksonville Jaguars — are both owned by Shad Khan.On Friday, Arteta spoke glowingly of his Rams counterpart. They regularly exchange Whatsapp messages.- Arteta: Arsenal’s Ødegaard out several weeks- Olley: Can Arteta break Arsenal’s cycle of finishing second?”Sean is someone that I admire a lot, not only for what he has achieved, but…