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Chinese technology company Kuaishou Technology said on Thursday that a group of investors, including Alibaba and Tencent, will invest more than 19 billion yuan ($2.8 billion) in its AI video-generation unit, Kling AI, valuing the business at approximately $15 billion before the new funding. The fundraising highlights strong investor confidence in China’s rapidly expanding artificial intelligence sector, which continues to attract significant capital despite broader economic challenges. According to Kuaishou, the financing round allows Kling AI to bring in an additional investor over the next two months, with the total fundraising capped at 20.45 billion yuan. Following the investment, Kuaishou’s…

GoDaddy, the world’s largest internet domain registrar, has warned that India’s crackdown on fake websites impersonating well-known brands could make the internet less safe for legitimate businesses and have far-reaching global consequences. The warning comes as India intensifies efforts to combat online fraud, which has surged alongside rapid smartphone and internet adoption. Government data shows authorities received 2.4 million cyber fraud complaints worth an estimated $2.4 billion last year. The legal dispute stems from lawsuits filed since 2019 by several Indian and international companies, including Amazon and McDonald’s, against fraudulent websites misusing their brand names. In December, an Indian court…

A former member of the European Parliament who served ​on a committee investigating abusive surveillance was himself hacked using an Israeli-made spy tool, a Canadian tech watchdog group ‌said on Friday. Citizen Lab said in a report that the phone of Stelios Kouloglou, a Greek television journalist-turned-lawmaker, was hacked at least three times between October 2022 and March 2023 using Pegasus spyware, a tool distributed by the Israeli company NSO Group. At the time of the targeting, Kouloglou was serving on the European Parliament’s ​PEGA Committee, which was set up in 2022 to examine the use of illegal phone hacking…

 The body of Iran’s slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was lying in state in a vast hall in Tehran on Friday as clerics, officials, foreign dignitaries and other mourners paid their respects after his 37-year rule. Iran is staging a week of mass funeral processions for Khamenei — killed in February by US and Israeli airstrikes at the start of a four-month war — in a show of public devotion ‌to the Islamic Republic’s theocratic state and revolutionary fire. Khamenei’s body was expected to be taken to Qom, Najaf and Kerbala, the great Shi’ite centres of Iran and Iraq,…

Rescuers cleared the rubble in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Friday in a search for survivors, as flags were lowered to half ​mast to mark a day of mourning, a day after a ‌Russian missile and drone attack killed at least 30 people. The attack – the deadliest Russian strike on Ukraine’s capital this year – also injured 92 people, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Friday. The ​parents of a 10-year-old boy, who was hospitalised after the attack, as ​well as a 15-year-old girl were still unaccounted for, he said. Separately, ⁠a Russian drone attack on a house in…

 Lugging suitcases across the border after packing up in Pakistan, Afghans are returning home with their worldly possessions but often lack one key item to restart their lives: an identity card. On the Afghan side of the Torkham border crossing, children and adults wheeled their luggage or carried belongings atop their heads, as they moved from desk to desk to log their arrival. “I don’t know how and where to get the ID card; now I’ll go and check,” said 17-year-old Abdulrehman Sudais, standing beside a crate of chickens he had carried across the border for his mother. The Pakistan-born…

France, the Netherlands and Belgium have recorded 3,700 excess deaths during the June heatwave that sent temperatures soaring across Europe, with authorities warning that the numbers are preliminary and could rise. Experts have said the heatwave, which lasted from about June 20-28, was the worst recorded in Europe, causing disruption to power generation, damaging infrastructure and overwhelming healthcare systems. The extreme heat was almost certainly driven by climate change, scientists said. There were 2,025 excess deaths recorded in France during the heatwave, with a particular increase in deaths among people aged over 45, French Health Minister Stephanie Rist told local television…

Chief of Army Staff (COAS) and Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) Field Marshal Asim Munir has reached Tehran to attend the funeral of Iran’s assassinated supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Upon his arrival in the Iranian capital, CDF Asim Munir was received by Iran’s Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni and other senior officials. Pakistan’s Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi was also present at the airport to receive the visiting delegation. Several Pakistani delegations have reached Tehran to participate in the funeral ceremony of the late Iranian leader, reflecting Pakistan’s representation at the event. The funeral prayers are being attended by officials and…

At least 40 people were killed and eight others injured after a passenger bus travelling from Quetta to Peshawar plunged into a ravine in the Dana Sar area between Zhob and Dera Ismail Khan on Friday, local authorities said. District officials said the bus veered off the road in the mountainous Dana Sar region, resulting in one of the deadliest road accidents in the area in recent years. Shahid Rind, spokesperson for the Balochistan chief minister, said the death toll had risen to 40, while eight injured passengers had been shifted to hospital for treatment. He said district authorities, rescue…

China is willing to lengthen its cooperation list with Canada, and to compress the “problem list” as well, a Ministry of Commerce spokesperson said on Thursday. Spokesperson He Yadong made the remarks when asked about the recent statement by Maninder Sidhu, Canada’s minister of international trade, that he looks forward to discussing further tariff reductions on Canadian rapeseed, peas and seafood with his Chinese counterpart this fall. In January, China and Canada, guided by the important consensus reached by the two countries’ leaders, signed an economic and trade cooperation roadmap, which established an initial joint arrangement for addressing bilateral trade…