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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/0d54/live/ced3b090-bb9f-11f1-a430-4d16ee157c41.jpg”] Reuters Argentina’s president has threatened to launch a legal challenge against the British government unless it halts oil exploration work off the coast of the Falkland Islands. In a social media post, President Javier Milei set a two-week deadline for the Sea Lion oilfield project, a joint venture between Israeli and British…

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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/18c2/live/9c628ea0-bbdc-11f1-bc1f-3f186ca4140c.jpg”] Getty Images Three songs recorded by Chrissy Amphlett in 1998 will be released on Friday More than a decade after her death, the voice of Australian rock icon Chrissy Amphlett will be heard like never before after three lost songs were discovered in a garage. The trailblazing frontwoman of rock band Divinyls,…

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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/1ac1/live/580d3570-bbc8-11f1-bc1f-3f186ca4140c.jpg”] Reuters OpenAI has announced it will not release its latest AI model due to safety concerns. Its GPT-6.1 Astra system, which performs tasks like browsing the web and using apps by itself, “didn’t quite meet the bar” of the company’s standards, according to Saachi Jain, head of safety systems at OpenAI. The…

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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/0212/live/a42eacb0-bbd0-11f1-9dd5-e33ded893e86.jpg”] Ngabo Amon/BBC Edward Rukidi Kijanangoma has been crowned king of Uganda’s Tooro kingdom. The new monarch has long been a familiar face in the East African nation, where for many he was known not as the heir to the throne, but as a storyteller: a long-serving anchor and editor at the state…