The US Justice Department has charged five people in the first cases of Operation Ghostbusters, a nationwide probe into “ghost student” aid fraud, and says it has flagged 830,840 potentially fraudulent student aid accounts tied to nearly $130 million.
Canada will invest up to C$1.6 billion for an equity stake in Toronto AI company Cohere, Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced, tying the money to Canadian jobs, computing infrastructure and a headquarters that stays in Canada.
Health workers in Ituri danced as the last patients left the MSF treatment centre in Mongbwalu — empty of confirmed Ebola cases for the first time since May — even as Congo’s outbreak, the deadliest in its history, passed 10,000 confirmed cases.
A jet-powered Russian drone struck a crowded platform at Dnipro’s main railway station on Thursday, killing at least 14 people, even as a rare local ceasefire held for a third day around occupied Oleshky.
An Italian Army Chinook serving with the EU’s EUFOR Althea mission crashed on a training flight near Brčko in northern Bosnia, killing four Italian personnel and injuring 11 others.
Israel’s final election results have left no bloc with a parliamentary majority, with Benjamin Netanyahu’s camp on 53 seats and record Arab-party gains of 19 seats now holding the balance of power.
Amazon’s cloud division grew at its fastest pace in nearly five years, but record spending on artificial intelligence pushed the company to a $42.4 billion cash burn and sent its shares lower.
The rapid wind-down of Wall Street firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges has left nearly 700 associates hunting for new roles, in one of the largest law-firm dissolutions ever.
Donald Trump’s administration is escalating legal action against US states days before the 3 November midterms, including a revised Alaska lawsuit and subpoenas in California, in what election officials describe as an extraordinary federal intervention in locally run elections.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 4,852 measles cases as of 29 October, up 264 on its previous update, with 511 people hospitalised and most cases among people who were unvaccinated or whose vaccination status was unknown.
