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athens, greece AP — Greece’s immigration minister announced Wednesday that Greece will join four other European countries to set up deportation centers in third countries, possibly in Africa, for migrants whose asylum claims have been rejected. Thanos Prevris told Greek state broadcaster ERT TV that Greece was working with Germany, the Netherlands, Austria and Denmark to create a so-called repatriation hub “preferably in Africa.” He said ministers from the five countries had already met to discuss the issue and a technical team was expected to meet next week. “We are no longer talking theoretically, we are talking practically,” Plevris said.…

Ukrainian authorities plan to boycott next month’s Milan-Cortina Winter Paralympics over the participation of athletes from Russia and Belarus, who are allowed to compete under their national flag.Russia and Belarus will field 10 athletes for next month’s Winter Paralympics, following Tuesday’s decision by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). Ukrainian athletes will continue to participate in the Paralympic Games, which run from March 6 to 15, but the country’s sports minister Matvy Bidny said no Ukrainian officials would attend the opening ceremony or any events at the Games. If the Paralympic athletes win the gold medal, it will be the first…

Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs has secured a $200 million investment from software design giant Autodesk. Through this partnership, the two companies will work together to study how World Labs’ models – AI systems that can generate and infer immersive 3D environments – can work with Autodesk’s tools and vice versa, with a focus on entertainment use cases. The deal is part of a larger round for World Labs, according to Autodesk, but Autodesk declined to disclose further details. WorldLabs, which emerged from stealth at $230 million in 2024 at a $1 billion valuation, is now reportedly in talks to raise…

Meta CEO and Chairman Mark Zuckerberg arrives in Los Angeles Superior Court on February 18, 2026, in Los Angeles, ahead of a social media trial that will determine whether the social media giant intentionally designed its platform to be addictive to children.Frederick J. Brown | AFP | Getty Imagesmeta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is scheduled to testify in Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday as part of a landmark social media and safety trial that has been likened to the industry’s “Big Tobacco” moment.The trial, which began in late January, centers on a young woman who claims she became addicted to…

This September 19, 2014 file photo shows retail mogul Leslie Wexner at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio. Mr. Wexner is severing his final ties with the retail empire he founded in 1963.Jay Lapreet | APCongressional depositions of Leslie Wexner, one of Jeffrey Epstein’s closest known associates and biggest benefactors, began privately in Ohio on Wednesday, people familiar with the matter told MS NOW.The deposition comes weeks after the Justice Department released millions of additional Epstein-related files, revealing new connections between the notorious sex offender and key figures in business and politics.Wexner is an 88-year-old retail billionaire…

Manager David Raya has called on Arsenal to play without fear as they aim for their first Premier League title in 22 years and their first silver medal since 2020.The Gunners are fighting on all four fronts and Mikel Arteta’s side still have a chance of completing an unprecedented quadruple. After winning the FA Cup in 2020 and reaching the fifth round of the FA Cup for the first time, the focus returns to the Premier League as Arsenal travel to Molineux to face Wolves on Wednesday, live on Sky Sports, with a chance to extend their advantage at the…

Visits by Western leaders to Beijing in December, including French President Emmanuel Macron and, more recently, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and British Keir Starmer, as well as German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s planned visit later this month, may suggest that a major geopolitical realignment is afoot. But to interpret these visits as a strategic departure from the United States is to mistake tactical adaptation for fundamental realignment. What we are witnessing is the pursuit of economic realism alongside durable security alliances, and this balancing act is not fundamentally disrupted by China’s charm offensive.In the early stages of President Donald Trump’s…

OpenAI is expanding its footprint in India and entering the country’s higher education system through partnerships with leading academic institutions. The move comes as the South Asian country seeks to expand AI skills and build domestic capacity in one of the world’s largest talent markets. OpenAI announced on Wednesday that it is partnering with six public and private higher education institutions in India, including top institutions focused on engineering, management, healthcare, and design, with the goal of serving more than 100,000 students, faculty, and staff over the next 12 months. The initiative focuses on integrating AI into core academic functions,…

White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett said Wednesday that the authors of a recent New York Fed paper that found U.S. businesses and consumers shoulder the lion’s share of the tariff burden should be “reprimanded.”In an interview with CNBC, the head of the National Economic Council trashed the report, saying the central bank’s researchers ignored important aspects of how the mandate would work and instead focused solely on prices. Hassett said the study should have also included the upward effects on wages and benefits that U.S. companies are seeing from increased domestic production.”So this paper is embarrassing,” Hassett said in…

Oil prices rose 3% on Wednesday after Vice President J.D. Vance said Iran had not mentioned the U.S. red line in this week’s nuclear talks and that President Donald Trump reserved the right to use military force.usa crude oil Oil prices rose $1.99, or 3.19%, to $64.32 per barrel by 10:09 a.m. ET. global benchmark brent It rose $2.04 (3.03%) to $69.46 per barrel. U.S. special envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner held nuclear talks with Iran in Geneva on Tuesday. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said the talks were “constructive”, according to Iranian media. Araguchi said that general agreement…