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A blockbuster IPO filing, a cheaper computer-operating model and an efficiency race: the artificial-intelligence industry is moving from promise to proof, with new questions about security, jobs and pricing power.

Meta is raising nearly $100 billion in the biggest equity sale in its history, and its chip suppliers are buying in. It is a sign of how capital-hungry the AI race has become, and of the circular money flows that worry skeptics.

With roughly 85 percent of ballots counted, neither Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc nor Gadi Eisenkot’s reaches 61 seats. Record Arab-party strength could decide who governs, or whether Israelis return to the polls.

Dutch gas prices have hit their highest level since 2022 as Qatari LNG stays bottled up. Meanwhile, Moscow used a gas-exporters’ summit to argue the world cannot do without Russian supply.

Moscow, Kyiv and Washington say they will meet again in the UAE in the first half of November. The talks are real, but so are the clocks ticking around them.

The Federal Reserve announces its decision at 2 PM ET today. Markets expect a pause, but oil near $100, gold above $4,000 and war-driven inflation are rewriting the script.

Dr. Shehab Al-Makahleh   The attack on St. George’s Greek Orthodox Church in Hammoud last October was an atrocity that demands justice, not shortcuts. Nine worshippers killed during a funeral. Dozens wounded. A community shattered. Jordan has every right—and every obligation—to pursue those responsible with the full weight …

Khairallah Khairallah France’s May 1968 uprising was far more than a student protest over university policies. It was a moment of social and political upheaval that shook the foundations of the French system and sent shockwaves across Europe. What began with students at the University of Paris’s Nanterre …

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has capped a remarkable political journey by winning a fourth presidential term, following a career that took him from factory work to the presidency, through imprisonment and ultimately back to power. The Workers’ Party candidate secured 51.79 per cent of valid votes in …