Maya Higa Reveals Engagement: Streamer shares ‘best surprise of my life’; fans quiz Caleb vs FaZe Adapt
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Maya Higa Reveals Engagement: Streamer shares ‘best surprise of my life’; fans quiz Caleb vs FaZe Adapt

Maya Higa has announced her engagement to her longtime partner Caleb, sharing proposal photos and calling it the “best surprise” of her life. Unlike the popular streamer, Caleb maintains a largely private life and does not appear to be a prominent content creator. Higa previously revealed they met through mutual friends at a bar and had been together for about a year by 2023. Fans briefly mistook ...

Inside Thailand’s bid to wire the world’s AI revolution
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Inside Thailand’s bid to wire the world’s AI revolution

In the rush to build an AI future, semiconductors are the silicon rock stars that soak up all the applause. Yet behind the curtain, an unglamorous stagehand is doing much of the heavy lifting. Printed circuit boards (PCBs) are the copper-laced panels inside every mobile phone, car key fob, digital camera and data-centre server rack on Earth. Without them, even the most advanced AI chip would be us...

Controversial plans for a Daniel Andrews sculpture officially scrapped by Victorian government

Controversial plans for a Daniel Andrews sculpture officially scrapped by Victorian government

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The $134,000 cost of the statue of the former Victorian premier has been heavily criticised by the Liberal oppositionGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Carroll government in Victoria has cancelled controversial plans for a statue of former Labor premier Daniel Andrews.Work began in May on the statue commemorating the former premier’s more than 3,000 days in office, as p...

Trump says US has deal with Venezuela for control of 65 billion barrels of oil reserves

Trump says US has deal with Venezuela for control of 65 billion barrels of oil reserves

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President Donald Trump on Friday said the US has entered an agreement with Venezuela to take control of 65 billion barrels of the South American country’s oil reserves. Trump in a social media post announced the agreement he said was negotiated by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth and Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodriguez. “The United States of America has just...

Trump announces new US oil agreement with Venezuela

Trump announces new US oil agreement with Venezuela

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US president says US will have ‘majority’ control of 65bn barrels of proven oil reservesDonald Trump announced Friday a new US oil agreement with Venezuela, saying the US will have “majority” control of 65bn barrels of proven oil reserves.“At ⁠my ​direction, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, working ⁠closely with Highly Respected Interim President of Venezuela, Del...

Man, 41, dies after large sign falls at Christian festival in West Sussex

Man, 41, dies after large sign falls at Christian festival in West Sussex

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Six more people hospitalised after incident at Big Church festival near SteyningA 41-year-old man has died and at least six other people have been injured after a large sign fell at a Christian festival in West Sussex, police said.The man, from Eastbourne, East Sussex, was pronounced dead at the scene after the incident at the Big Church festival near Steyning on Friday afternoon. Continue reading...

Number of Australians missing in Nepal’s deadly floods rises again, as Albanese deploys more personnel

Number of Australians missing in Nepal’s deadly floods rises again, as Albanese deploys more personnel

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The figure rose to 41 on Saturday morning, with four rapid response teams to arrive in KathmanduGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe number of Australians who were reported missing in the catastrophic Nepal flooding disaster has risen to 41, as one family celebrates after an unaccounted-for woman made contact with them yesterday.It means three additional Australians were ...

Los Angeles fire survivors face record wait for federal disaster aid under Trump

Los Angeles fire survivors face record wait for federal disaster aid under Trump

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Nearly 600 days after the devastating 2025 fires, thousands of Los Angeles residents are still waiting for more than $15bn in federal funds to rebuild their communities As thousands of residents in Spokane, Washington begin to grapple with a long recovery after a destructive set of blazes that consumed hundreds of homes in the state’s second most populated city this month, victims of the Los Angel...

8/28: CBS Evening News

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Milo Yiannopoulos placed in ICE custody; Clancy jury still undecided after 9 hours.

US Treasury sanctions Hong Kong-based firm over Iran money laundering ties

US Treasury sanctions Hong Kong-based firm over Iran money laundering ties

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The United States announced sanctions on a Hong Kong company on Friday for allegedly helping launder funds for a sanctioned Iranian exchange house, the latest Chinese entity to be targeted as part of Washington’s expanded efforts to squeeze Iran’s financial sector. The development comes as Washington has in recent days slapped new Iran-related sanctions on various Chinese entities, prompting Beiji...

UK far-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos arrested by US immigration

UK far-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos arrested by US immigration

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US immigration officials arrested controversial British far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos on Thursday in New Orleans, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Immigration officials announced on Friday that Yiannopoulos was arrested at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport and accused him of overstaying after entering the United States legally in May 2019 through New York...

Can Beijing’s gateway plan for Tibet survive geopolitics and natural disasters?

Can Beijing’s gateway plan for Tibet survive geopolitics and natural disasters?

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On the windswept plains just south of Tibet’s second-largest city, the towering smart inspection systems and automated cargo gantries of a brand-new international land port gleam under the plateau’s high-altitude sun. Official road maps predict the multibillion-yuan project in Shigatse will process up to 300 trucks daily by the end of 2030 – loading cargo off trains and onto the trucks that will t...