TEHRAN -- Tehran has called its decision not to take part in the second round of peace talks with the United States in Pakistan as "definitive," Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency said Tuesday.
The decision was announced shortly before U.S. President Donald Trump said he would extend the ceasefire to allow more time for negotiations, as the current two-week truce is set to expire on Wednesday night. (Iran-US-Peace Talks)
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WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Donald Trump did not view Iran's seizure of two European ships by force near the Strait of Hormuz as a breach of the extended U.S. ceasefire with Iran, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Wednesday.
"These were not U.S. ships. These were not Israeli ships. These were two international vessels," she said on Fox News. (US-Trump-Iran)
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BRUSSELS -- European Union (EU) members' ambassadors on Wednesday approved a 90-billion-euro (105.6 billion U.S. dollars) loan for Ukraine, according to reports citing sources from Cyprus, which currently holds the EU's rotating presidency.
The ambassadors also reached an agreement on a new round of sanctions against Russia, the reports said. (Brussels-EU-Ukraine)
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LOS ANGELES -- U.S. private space company SpaceX has reached an agreement for the right to acquire San Francisco-based artificial intelligence (AI) startup Cursor for 60 billion U.S. dollars later this year, or to pay 10 billion dollars related to their collaboration, according to a statement from SpaceX.
SpaceX said Tuesday on social media that the combination of Cursor's leading product and distribution to expert software engineers with SpaceX's million H100 equivalent Colossus training supercomputer will allow both sides "to build the world's most useful models." (US-SpaceX-AI-Cursor) ■
