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Harvey Weinstein is sentenced to 15 years in prison for 2006 sex crime in New York

Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 15 years in prison Wednesday, more than a year after a jury found the former Hollywood mogul guilty of sexually assaulting former “Project Runway” production assistant Miriam Haley in a high-stakes retrial.

Iran’s president blames U.S., Israel for global instability in defiant UN speech

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian in a defiant speech to the United Nations on Wednesday blamed the U.S. and Israel for stoking global instability while accusing them of launching illegal attacks on his country’s civilians and infrastructure.

Trump welcomes Xi at airport with red carpet and military flyover to kick off three-day US visit

President Xi Jinping arrives at Joint Base Andrews for a rare US airport welcome ahead of a high-stakes three-day state visit with President Trump. Read more at straitstimes.com.

OpenAI Agent Accessed Australian Medicare Portal, Albanese Says

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Wednesday that an OpenAI agent gained unauthorized access to a government Medicare statistics portal in June, calling the incident "unacceptable" and saying no personal patient information appears to have been accessed.