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UN pressure grew for restored Strait of Hormuz passage after Antonio Guterres warned that shipping limits threaten global trade and commerce.

The United Nations says shrinking aid, rising debt costs and a widening finance gap are pushing global development goals further off track.

Water Forward sets a global framework to improve water security, expand services and support resilience for more than 1 billion people.

HOUSTON: NASA’s Artemis II crew aboard the Orion spacecraft set a new record for the farthest distance traveled by humans from Earth on Monday, surpassing the mark set by Apollo 13 in 1970 during a lunar flyby that carried the astronauts deeper into space than any crew before them. NASA said the four-person crew passed the Apollo 13 distance of 248,655 miles from Earth at 1:56 p.m. EDT and later reached a maximum distance of about 252,756 miles as Orion looped behind the Moon. The milestone came on the sixth day of Artemis II, the first crewed flight of NASA’s Artemis program and…

SAN FRANCISCO: OpenAI, Anthropic and Google are tightening coordination against unauthorized copying of advanced AI systems through the Frontier Model Forum, an industry nonprofit whose threat sharing framework now allows member companies to exchange information on vulnerabilities, attack methods and other security risks tied to frontier models. The forum, launched in 2023, was created by Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI and now also includes Amazon and Meta, giving the effort a broader industry base as model protection becomes a central concern for major U.S. developers. The Frontier Model Forum said in March 2025 that all of its member firms had signed…

WASHINGTON: The Pentagon said Thursday that Gen. Randy A. George is retiring from his post as the 41st Chief of Staff of the Army, effective immediately, ending the tenure of the service’s top uniformed officer in a brief public announcement from chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell. The statement offered no explanation for the move and said only that the department was grateful for George’s decades of service and wished him well in retirement. The change immediately alters leadership at Army headquarters in Washington. George had led the Army since Sept. 21, 2023, when he was sworn in after Senate confirmation while visiting soldiers…

FLORIDA: NASA launched Artemis II from Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday evening, sending four astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft on the first crewed mission around the Moon in more than 50 years. The Space Launch System rocket lifted off from Launch Complex 39B at 6:35 p.m. EDT, beginning an approximately 10-day test flight set to loop around the Moon and return to Earth. The mission is the first time astronauts have flown aboard NASA’s SLS rocket and Orion capsule, both developed for deep space travel. The crew is led by commander Reid Wiseman and includes pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Christina Koch…

NEW YORK: The United Nations urged governments, businesses and households to reshape food systems and curb waste, saying the world discards more than 1 billion tonnes of food each year even as hunger persists across many regions. The appeal came as the UN marked the 2026 International Day of Zero Waste, which focused on food waste and its effect on food security, costs and the environment. UN data show that about 19% of food available to consumers is wasted, while 13% is lost after harvest and before retail. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the volume of food thrown away each day is enough…

MONTANA: The United States is set to close a historic cross-border road to Canadian traffic later this summer, ending a decades-old local arrangement along the frontier near Coutts, Alberta, and Sweet Grass, Montana. The road, known as Border Road, runs for about 14 kilometres along the boundary and sits on the Montana side, even though Alberta has long maintained it. The change will require Canadians who use the route to move through the official port of entry instead of travelling the shared local road. Border Road has for generations been used by farmers, ranchers and nearby families on both sides of the line…

COLOMBIA: At least 66 people were killed after a Colombian military C-130 Hercules crashed seconds after takeoff from Puerto Leguizamo in the southern department of Putumayo, in one of the country’s deadliest recent military aviation disasters. Military authorities said dozens of survivors were flown to medical centers after the aircraft went down on Monday morning during a transport mission, and four people were still listed as missing as search and recovery operations continued into the next day. Colombia’s air force identified the aircraft as FAC 1016, a Hercules transport plane that departed at 9:54 a.m. local time on a flight from Puerto Leguizamo…