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Pope says he will continue to speak out against war after Trump attack | Reuters

In comments aboard the papal flight to Algiers, where the first U.S. pope is starting a 10-day tour to four African countries, the pontiff also said the Christian message was being "abused".

Exclusive: US, Iran leave door open to dialogue after tense Islamabad talks | Reuters

After a sleepless and at times tense night in Islamabad, Iranian and U.S. officials ended their highest-level talks in decades without a breakthrough, but 11 sources familiar with the negotiations said dialogue was still alive.

Rep. Eric Swalwell of California says he will resign from Congress | AP News

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Claude, Copilot, Codex

Anthropic tests Claude Code upgrade to rival Codex Superapp

Anthropic is overhauling Claude Code’s desktop app with project Epitaxy, introducing new panels, multi-repo support, and Coordinator Mode.

How ServiceNow gets customers to gorge at the AI trough • The Register

: 'AI is now infused in every package that we offer to our addressable market,' SVP John Aisien told us

Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex are merging into one AI coding stack nobody planned - The New Stack

Cursor, Claude Code, and OpenAI Codex are forming a composable AI coding stack with orchestration, execution, and review layers instead of consolidating into one tool.

Democracy (wtf)

🔒 ‘We Finally Have Democracy’: Hungarians Erupt in Joy and Relief - The New York Times

Many Hungarians, exhausted by a struggling economy and worried about a move away from the European Union, were jubilant after Prime Minister Viktor Orban conceded. Some had wondered if he would.

The tyranny of too much democracy: Confucius’s answer

Democracy today has lost some of its shine, with issues such as the rise of right-wing populist parties worrying some. But part of the problem lies in the conflation of two distinct ideas — liberalism and democracy. If the balance between liberalism and democracy needs to be restored, might ...

Ambedkar Jayanti: What is Democracy? | Outlook India

B.R. Ambedkar’s views on religion, democracy, economic equality, nationalism, communism and free and fair elections are as relevant today as they were then.

📜 History Fact

James Cook's three voyages (1768–1779) mapped vast areas of the Pacific Ocean and led to European encounters with Australia and New Zealand.

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