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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told CNN on Sunday that companies trusting one AI provider for everything risk outsourcing their thinking and may not survive. He recommended retaining metadata, using AI gateways, and running multiple models in parallel to reduce enterprise AI dependency.

Iran's Foreign Ministry declared the United States 'stuck and struggling' Monday as President Trump claimed active negotiations were under way, oil prices fell seven percent, and Benjamin Netanyahu flew to Washington for Iran war strategy talks.

France and Spain meet in a World Cup semifinal for just the second time on Tuesday in Dallas, Kylian Mbappe's tournament-leading 8 goals pitted against a Spain side that has conceded just once in five matches. On Bastille Day, something has to give.

BTS Jimin recreated Haaland's iconic walk at Allianz Arena in Munich during the ARIRANG World Tour on July 11, after J-Hope spotted a fan sign comparing the two at soundcheck. The clip went viral, capturing K-pop and football's unexpected collision.

The IRGC struck the Cyprus-flagged GFS Galaxy in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, triggering a fire and forcing crew into lifeboats. Ten of 11 Indian nationals aboard have been rescued; one sailor remains unaccounted for as India's foreign ministry condemned the attack and coordinated with Oman.

The four Daily Quordle answers for game #1630 (Sunday, July 12, 2026) are STAIN, BINGO, LARVA, and DICEY. Hints for all four words are below, along with the full solution and a difficulty note on today's most unusual entry.

Two children were killed and more than 15 people rescued after a ferry carrying over 35 passengers struck a bridge on the Euphrates River in Deir Ezzor, eastern Syria. Syrian Civil Defense teams were searching for additional missing passengers as the death toll remained uncertain Sunday afternoon.

Nine months after the ceasefire, Gaza has no civilian government, no police force, and no reconstruction program. Israel has barred the NCAG Gaza's planned post-war administration from entering the territory, blocking every governance proposal as a sequencing dispute drags on.

A Dhaka rights group documented 66 politically linked killings in six months under PM Tarique Rahman, including 61 custody deaths. The toll comes as petrol bombs hit an opposition rally and a teenager's body was found in the Turag River after a banned rally.

Lindsey Graham, Republican senator from South Carolina and Congress's most persistent hawk on Iran and Israel, died Saturday at 71. Israeli officials led the tributes, calling him their strongest ally. His staff said only he died from a 'brief and sudden illness.'

Alexis Mac Allister's tenth-minute header and a decisive Julian Alvarez curler in extra time carried Argentina past a ten-man Switzerland 3-1 at Arrowhead Stadium, setting up a World Cup semifinal showdown with England in Atlanta on Wednesday.

Iran fired missiles at the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait on Saturday in the most expansive Gulf barrage since the conflict began, forcing Emirati residents into public shelter as AFP journalists watched interceptions light up the sky over Doha. The simultaneous attacks came hours after Iran declared the Strait of Hormuz closed, triggering a third round of US retaliatory strikes on Iranian port cities.

Qatar's Amiri Diwan announced Sunday the death of former Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani at the age of 74. The architect of Al Jazeera and Qatar's transformation into a global diplomatic force, he abdicated voluntarily in 2013 in favor of his son Tamim, the first Arab ruler to do so.

Federal agents arrived at the homes of four New York Times reporters Friday, delivering grand jury subpoenas over coverage of Trump's Qatar-gifted aircraft. The Times called it unprecedented; press freedom groups warned it signals a new phase in the White House campaign against independent media.

A UN Women survey of 855 organizations across 52 conflict-affected countries found at least one million women and girls lost essential services in 18 months. Forty percent of those organizations now face shutdown within a year as US and European donor funding collapsed simultaneously.

Syria moved closer to economic renewal as President Trump initiated removal of its 47-year US state sponsor of terrorism designation, the last major barrier to international banking. Ground-level Damascus reacted with cautious hope, knowing paperwork moves faster than capital.

Sunday does not arrive quietly on the astrological calendar. The daily horoscope today for July 12, 2026, is dominated by one of the rarest and most consequential transits of the entire Mercury Retrograde cycle: the Mercury cazimi in Cancer. At 6:31 PM PT, retrograde Mercury meets the Sun at exactly 20 degrees and 42 minutes of Cancer, an alignment astrologers call the cazimi, a Latin term meaning in the heart of the Sun. For a brief window, the planet of communication, thought, and logic is ren

Typhoon Bavi made double landfall on China's Zhejiang coast Saturday night, displacing 1.72 million people as the storm killed 18 in the Philippines. The ninth typhoon of 2026 cut across Taiwan and Japan before striking Zhejiang twice, with China yet to report mainland casualties.

Zelensky publicly accused Ukroboronprom of illegally storing weapons near civilians in Vyshneve, where a July 6 Russian strike killed seven and wounded 29. Officials from two subsidiaries face investigation after the president called the storage expressly prohibited.

Erdogan met Lebanese PM Nawaf Salam in Istanbul on Friday, positioning Turkey to counter Israeli and Iranian influence in post-war Lebanon. Analysts see an emerging Turkey-Saudi-Egypt-Qatar-Oman coalition forming to preserve Lebanese stability without a new dominant external power.

Iraq and Turkey are finalizing a 12-month deal to keep crude flowing through the Ceyhan pipeline before the current agreement expires at month's end. With Hormuz still restricted, the 970km route to Turkey's Mediterranean coast has become Iraq's most critical oil export corridor.

Henry Patten and Harri Heliovaara won the Wimbledon men's doubles title Saturday, defeating Marcelo Arevalo and Mate Pavic 7-6(4), 7-6(3) in a final without a single break point. The world No. 1 pair are now three-time Grand Slam champions, with two Wimbledon titles in three years.

South African midfielder Jayden Adams, 25, died Saturday, two weeks after the 2026 World Cup. He started two group-stage matches for Bafana Bafana and won the CAF Champions League with Mamelodi Sundowns. No cause of death has been disclosed.

Paul Allen's estate has agreed to sell the Seattle Seahawks to Vinod Khosla's family group for a record $9.612 billion, shattering the NFL franchise-sale record. The deal requires approval from the league's owners and marks the most expensive professional sports transaction in history.

Norway knocked England out on penalties in the 2026 World Cup quarterfinal at Hard Rock Stadium. Schjelderup's 36th-minute opener was cancelled by Bellingham's equalizer, Haaland had a goal disallowed by VAR, and Norway converted from the spot.

South Korean golfer Haeran Ryu shot 60 at the Amundi Evian Championship on Saturday, the first time any player has broken past 61 in a major, men's or women's. Ryu leads at 22-under par, three shots clear of Japan's Aki Iwai heading into the final round in Evian-les-Bains, France.

Six Epstein survivors say Lesley Groff lied to Congress about meeting victims, handing them cash, and handling their IDs directly contradicting her June testimony. The House Oversight Committee is reviewing her transcript against the evidence.

Heather Knight, England's most-capped women's cricketer, retired at 35 on Saturday after scoring just six runs in her final innings at Lord's, trapped lbw by India's Sayali Staghare. Her 320 caps, 199 as captain, and the 2017 World Cup victory define an era of transformation in English women's cricket.

Oman presented a two-corridor Strait of Hormuz proposal at Saturday's Araghchi-Albusaidi talks in Muscat: free southern passage through Omani waters, conditional northern transit requiring Tehran's approval. Neither Iran nor the US has accepted the framework, and the strait remains closed after 133 days.

Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania's chargs d'affaires jointly denied in Moscow on Saturday that their countries had opened their airspace for Ukrainian strikes on Russia, directly rebutting Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Galuzin's July 4 accusation. The Baltic states cited their April 10 foreign ministers' statement as the prior on-record position.

Hungarian Foreign Minister Anita Orban said in a Corriere della Sera interview Saturday that Hungary seeks pragmatic relations with Russia and views it as a permanent European power. The statement sharpens Budapest's divergence from EU and NATO partners who have maintained diplomatic pressure on Moscow throughout the Ukraine conflict.

Linda Noskova, 21, won the Wimbledon women's final 6-2, 5-7, 6-3 on Saturday, becoming the youngest Grand Slam champion at the All England Club in fifteen years after surviving five championship points in the second set before converting the sixth. Her victory makes Czech women three-time Wimbledon champions in four years.

S. Janaki, the playback singer who recorded more than 48,000 songs across seventeen languages and gave South Indian cinema its voice for sixty years, died Friday at Apollo Hospital in Mysuru. She was 88. No state funeral arrangements had been announced.

Power cuts have left Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah running on exhausted backup generators after Israel destroyed 90 percent of Gaza's power grid. Thirty-eight hospitals are now non-functional as patients like Omar Abu Atwa wait hours for care that never comes.

UK police released without charge Saturday the 26-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murdering former Conservative MP Ann Widdecombe, leaving investigators without a named suspect. A revised police timeline places the attack on Wednesday around 11:30 GMT, more than 24 hours before her body was discovered at her rural Devon home.

Moldova President Maia Sandu on Saturday nominated Vasile Tofan, a Harvard-educated private equity executive, as prime minister following Alexandru Munteanu's resignation. Tofan has 14 days to secure parliamentary approval as Moldova pursues formal EU accession negotiations opened in June.

France's third heatwave since May prompted the Eiffel Tower, Louvre, and Muse d'Orsay to close early as Mto-France placed 24 departments under red alert. Over 22 million people faced extreme heat as Paris Mayor Emmanuel Grgoire convened an emergency crisis meeting Friday.

Jayden Adams, 25, South African World Cup midfielder, was found dead Saturday in Cape Town. Police opened an investigation with no cause of death disclosed. Adams played all three of South Africa group stage matches at the 2026 FIFA World Cup, the first time Bafana Bafana reached the Round of 32.

Barbara Ling, production designer of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, died July 10 in Santa Barbara after a cancer battle. She was 73. The Oscar winner's career spanned Batman Forever, Batman & Robin, and more than 200 theater productions before her film debut.

Randolph Mantooth, who played paramedic Johnny Gage on NBC's Emergency!, died Thursday at 80 in Ventura, California. When the show debuted in 1972, just 12 paramedic units existed across North America; his performance helped legally transform emergency medicine in 46 states.

Taylor Frankie Paul filed a civil stalking petition Friday in Salt Lake County, Utah, against Cru Eaton, a friend of ex-partner Dakota Mortensen who posted a TikTok video showing her crying during a private argument. The filing escalates an already volatile custody battle over their 2-year-old son, Ever, into a new legal arena.

Albania's anti-corruption prosecutors allege the land sold for Jared Kushner's $4 billion resort was bought with cocaine proceeds using forged deeds, with 110 million frozen. The development has been at the center of Albania's biggest protest movement in years.

Fifteen Indian tourists were killed and 21 rescued after a speedboat operated by Ocean Pear Island Company capsized in rough seas off Vietnam's Phu Quoc island on Saturday, with passengers trapped inside the vessel as rescue crews battled heavy waves. India's embassy in Vietnam has opened emergency control rooms in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City to coordinate with the victims' families.

US Congressman Ro Khanna was held for over an hour by armed Israeli settlers with American-made M4 rifles at Khirbet Zanuta in the West Bank, with his aide calling the US Embassy for help. The incident left Khanna more resolved to run for president in 2028 and to introduce H.Res.1092 calling for Magnitsky sanctions against Israeli ministers.

Indonesia inked a $600 million deal for BrahMos supersonic missiles during Modi's Jakarta visit, becoming the third country to buy the system. The package also covers ASTRA air-to-air missiles, marking the largest defence trade ever between India and Indonesia.

New Delhi, July 11, 2026: Entrepreneur, social worker and authorPunam Gupta is continuing to expand her impact across social welfare, food safety, entrepreneurship and public health through her business ventures and community initiatives. As the Founder of theTogether We Can Foundation, an 80G-approved NGO, she has been spearheading initiatives focused on food safety, environmental sustainability, body and organ donation awareness, cyber safety, employment generation and animal welfare. Driven b

Satara: In a significant step towards enhancing the employability and economic empowerment of Scheduled Caste (SC) youth, the Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Research and Training Institute (BARTI), Pune, in collaboration with the Science and Technology Park (STP), Pune, organised a Skill Development Certificate Distribution and Success Stories Programme in Satara. During the event, 150 Scheduled Caste candidates from across Maharashtra, who successfully completed various technology-based skill developme

Bangalore, India, 11 July 2026: NBC Bearings, the flagship brand of National Engineering Industries Ltd. (NEI), a CKA Birla Group company, today announced the launch of its new Low Noise, Low Vibration Electric Motor Quality (EMQ) Bearings at Mogen Expo, Bangalore, engineered for electric motors, EVs and precision equipment to deliver quieter, smoother and longer lasting performance. The product was unveiled by Dr. G. M. Ramachandran, Chief Executive Officer, LEDL and Mr. Sachin Singh Kushwaha,

Mosquitoes are more than just a seasonal nuisance. They disrupt sleep, affect comfort, and can pose serious health risks to families. Whether you needmosquito nets for doors and windows in a single bedroom, a large balcony opening, a villa, an apartment complex, a commercial building, or an institutional project, finding the right mosquito protection solution often becomes a challenge. Homeowners frequently struggle to identify the right product, coordinate installations, and ensure long-term re

More than 18,000 chickenpox and skin disease cases were recorded across Gaza in a single week, the UN said on Friday, with malnourished children the most exposed. Gaza's healthcare system is operating at half capacity and humanitarian funding is at 25 percent of what is needed.