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Microsoft pulls plug on naughty AI
Microsoft terminates artificial intelligence chat robot after it started to tweet offensive, racist, and perverted messages.

Microsoft terminates artificial intelligence chat robot after it started to tweet offensive, racist, and perverted messages.

US officials who have a hand in coups in different countries act with total impunity, says an analyst.

The Russian defense minister says the country is reinforcing its military forces on the western border in response to NATO’s expansion in Europe.

Russia says a temporary agreement has been reached with the US over not discussing the future of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

US Secretary of State John Kerry says Daesh is collapsing as it is losing its territory and leaders.

Ten people have been killed in an air ambulance helicopter crash in southern Iran.

The US government has direct and covert ties to terrorist groups in many countries, geopolitical analyst Eric Draitser says.

At least 30 people are killed in a bomb attack in a village south of Baghdad.

Iraqi forces fully liberate a town in the western province of Anbar.

The US military says it has killed several leading militants from the Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group.

The media in Saudi Arabia report that a plan is on agenda in the kingdom to move away from oil and use the revenues it obtains from hosting Hajj pilgrimage as its main source of national income.

The leader of the Ansarullah movement says Saudi Arabia is committing genocide against the Yemeni people.

A Saudi journalist is sentenced to five years in prison over tweets.

The US is not seeking rapprochement with Iran based on mutual respect and benefit but is attempting to undermine its sovereignty, a political analyst says.

A bomb explosion jolts the diplomatic quarter of the Afghanistan's capital, Kabul.

Belgian police arrest three people in the wake of terrorist attacks in Belgium and the French capital, Paris.

Iran says it is working with several Asian companies over projects to revamp the refineries in Isfahan and Abadan.

The Stuxnet virus developed by the US to sabotage Iran’s civilian nuclear program was “really dangerous and high level,” said Daniel Patrick Welch.