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Kuwait bans 'Call of Duty: Black Ops 6' video game, likely over it featuring Saddam Hussein in 1990s

Oct. 23, 2024 06:41 AM EDT

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The tiny Mideast nation of Kuwait has banned the release of the video game “Call of Duty: Black Ops 6,” which features the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and is set in part in the 1990s Gulf War. Kuwait has not publicly acknowledged...

Collapse of national security elites' cyber firm leaves bitter wake

Oct. 04, 2024 00:03 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The future was once dazzling for IronNet. Founded by a former director of the National Security Agency and stacked with elite members of the U.S. intelligence establishment, IronNet promised it was going to revolutionize the way governments and corporations combat...

What to know from the UN: Leaders speak of emerging threats, hints of war as big meeting nears

Sep. 24, 2024 02:40 AM EDT

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The security cordons are up. The streets are ready to be sealed off. Aircraft from myriad nations are landing in New York. It all means one thing for the eastern part of Manhattan: The yearly gathering of world leaders at the United Nations is at hand. ...

UN nations endorse a 'Pact for the Future,' and the body's leader says it must be more than talk

Sep. 22, 2024 18:34 PM EDT

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly approved a blueprint Sunday to bring the world’s increasingly divided nations together to tackle 21st-century challenges from climate change and artificial intelligence to escalating conflicts and increasing inequality and poverty. ...

Tiny Kuwait, in grip of desert summer heat, announces power cuts after fuel disruption

Aug. 18, 2024 06:18 AM EDT

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Tiny, oil-rich Kuwait on Sunday instituted rolling blackouts in several residential neighborhoods despite high summertime temperatures in the desert emirate. The state-run KUNA news agency blamed “a fuel supply disruption” for the blackouts,...