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The proposal would postpone negotiations over Iran's nuclear program in an attempt to break the deadlock
June 3 (Reuters) - The United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday elected Austria, Portugal, Trinidad and Tobago and Zimbabwe to the 15-member U.N. Security Council for two-year terms starting on January1, 2027. A third round of voting was being heldto determine who would take the fifth available seat, the Philippines or Kyrgyzstan. Germany, which had lobbied hard for a seat, came third for the two places contested by the Western European and Others Group, with 104 votes, against 134 for Portugal and 131 for Austria
Sunday's vote, the country's third in just over a year, was marked by low turnout. The country's prolonged political crisis has further debilitated an already ailing economy
Increased activity comes amid reports Moscow has sent submarine to escort vessel to its territory
United States officials say more than 5,000 targets have been struck, with many of the munitions deployed costing millions of dollars each
Israeli attacks came near Khan Younis, in Gaza City and Deir el-Balah as Hamas and other groups met mediators in Cairo
Footage shared by Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman purportedly shows destruction in Shahid Hamedani School in Tehran
Uganda reported three more cases and one more death from the outbreak which has spread from the DRC
By-elections — the British equivalent of a U.S. special election — are held when a member of Parliament resigns, dies or becomes enmeshed in tabloid scandal and are flung out of office by angry voters
President Trump surprised tech CEOs by suddenly pushing the idea of the U.S. taking a small ownership stake in AI giants, so the American people share in the upside of what will be trillion-dollar companies. "There's something very interesting about it, where it almost becomes a partnership with the American public," Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One yesterday. "It's like you make them [partners] in this revolution. It would be a beautiful thing. It would make 'em rich." Why it matters: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has pushed this idea with the Trump administration over the past year. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) reignited the conversation this week when he proposed giving the public a "direct ownership stake" in top AI companies via a one-time 50% tax, paid in stock. Of course, industry advocates of the idea would favor giving up much less for an AI public wealth fund — 1-5% stakes have been kicked around. Between the lines: AI is broadly unpopular in the U.S. Some industry leaders, and now clearly Trump, think the technology's image would improve if all Americans participated in this mind-boggling wealth creation. Ahead of the expected stock offerings by Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI, Trump said there's "so much money, and it's so big, that there are concepts where pieces could be given to the American public, where the American public essentially becomes a partner . with the companies." "We'll look into that," Trump said. "We're talking about it, where the American people can benefit from the success of AI. And by doing that, they're gonna like it better . We're leading China. We're leading everybody in the world with AI, and we want to keep it that way." The backstory: Altman has pushed the concept in private conversations with administration officials, then in a proposal for an AI New Deal, then on Capitol Hill this week when he visited Sanders and leaders of both parties. A "Public Wealth Fund" was one of the provocative ideas in OpenAI's "Industrial Policy for
Summary of discussions of 19 May at Seventy-ninth World Health Assembly