Anthropic sues US government for calling it a risk

Kali Hays Technology reporter

Reuters Dario Amodei, Anthropic's CEO, speaking on stake while holding a microphone, wearing a black suit jacket, white shirt and red and navy spotted neck tie. Reuters

Artificial intelligence (AI) firm Anthropic has filed a first of its kind lawsuit against the US government over claims that it is a "supply chain risk".

The AI firm's chief executive Dario Amodei and Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth have been publicly rowing due to the to allow the military unfettered use of its AI tools.

The Pentagon by making Anthropic the first US company to be labelled a "supply chain risk", but Anthropic said in its lawsuit on Monday against a list of US


Iran's new leader has never been tested. He now faces an existential battle

Lyse Doucet Chief international correspondent

AFP via Getty Images Mojtaba Khamenei looks down the lens. AFP via Getty Images
Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, succeeds his father, who was assassinated in the first wave of US-Israeli strikes

A leader who has never been fully tested takes the helm in Iran when its theocracy faces its greatest test in five decades.

Continuity and connections have pulled Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, to the top after the assassination of his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in the first salvos of this war.

But Iran's third supreme leader since its 197

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US teacher killed after toilet paper prank goes wrong

Getty Images A house is littered with toilet paper Getty Images
The students had planned a common high school prank of littering a house with toilet paper

A high school teacher in Georgia was accidentally run over and killed outside his home when a toilet paper prank carried out by his students went terribly wrong, officials said.

Jason Hughes, 40, came out of his home to surprise the students who were tossing toilet papers over trees as part of a practical joke.

But Hughes tripped and fell on the ground which was slick from rain, and as the


US missile hit military base near Iran school, video analysis shows

Merlyn Thomas and Shayan Sardarizadeh BBC Verify

Watch: US Tomahawk missile hits military base near Iran school

A US Tomahawk missile hit a military base near a primary school in southern Iran where Iranian authorities said 168 people, including around 110 children, were killed, expert video analysis shows.

A video published yesterday by Iran's semi-official Mehr news agency, which BBC Verify has confirmed as authentic, shows a missile moments before it struck an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) base next to the Shajareh

A BBC Verify graphic where we have annotated satellite imagery of the IRGC base and adjacent school and highlight the medical clinic where the missile hit
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Carney calls three by-elections in Canada that could grant him a majority

Nadine Yousif Senior Canada reporter

EPA Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks during a press conference in Beijing, China, 16 January 2026. He is seen standing in front of a microphone, and is wearing a black coat over a suit and tie. He has a serious expression on his face. He has short black and grey hair that is parted to the left. EPA
Carney's Liberal government is just three seats shy of a majority.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced three by-elections on 13 April - races that could give his party a majority in the government.

Two of the by-elections will be held in Toronto, in constituencies that are considered strongholds for Carney's Liberal party, while the third will be a closely watched contest in Montreal where his party won by just one vote last year.

If they win all three


Hundreds of teenagers report for duty as Croatia reinstates conscription

Guy Delauney Balkans correspondent

EPA A young man walks into an army barrack EPA
More than half of the 800 conscripts reporting for service today are volunteers

Hundreds of teenage Croatians have reported for compulsory military service – for the first time since their country scrapped the requirement in 2008.

Training will take place at barracks in three locations around Croatia, with recruits expected to report to the facility nearest to their homes.

There, they will receive their kit and dormitory assignments. For the next two months, they will have to submit to military discipline.

"They

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N Korea cancels Pyongyang Marathon for 'some reasons'

AFP via Getty Images Runners at the 31st Pyongyang International Marathon in Pyongyang on April 6, 2025 AFP via Getty Images
The annual marathon is usually held in April

North Korea has cancelled the Pyongyang marathon for unspecified reasons, a tour agency linked to the event has said.

British-owned Koryo Tours, which describes itself as the official partner of the marathon, said on Monday that it had received notice of the cancellation from North Korea's athletics association.

A message it attributed to the association said the marathon was being cancelled "due to some reasons".

The annual event was established in 1981 to


Police release images of Oslo US embassy explosion suspect

Norway police A composite image featuring two angles of a suspect police have linked to an explosion at the US embassy in Norway. The left-hand image shows a person dressed in dark clothing with his hood up and face concealed. The second image shows the back of the suspect carrying what appears to be a rucksack on his back. The images are highly pixelated. Norway police

Police in Norway have released pictures of a suspect linked to an explosion outside the US's embassy in Norway's capital Oslo on Sunday.

Two heavily pixelated images taken from surveillance footage show a person with their face concealed, dressed in dark clothing and carrying a backpack.

Police said in a statement on Monday that their investigation had so far showed the explosion was caused by an improvised device that was placed at the building's entrance. The blast caused minor damage and no injuries were reported.

Police previously


Watch: Why the Iran war is pushing up oil prices

As turmoil continues in the Middle East, the price of crude oil rose to more than $100 a barrel on Monday.

Guinea opposition leader urges 'direct resistance' after 40 parties dissolved

AFP via Getty Images Guinean economist and politician and former Prime Minister of Guinea Cellou Dalein Diallo wearing a dark formal suit, stands against a smooth, muted blue-grey background. He is positioned slightly to the side, with part of the upper body and shoulders visible. AFP via Getty Images
Cellou Dalein Diallo said the decree showed that "war has been openly declared"

Guinea's main opposition leader Cellou Dalein Diallo has said that "direct resistance" to the country's coup leader–turned–president is now the only remaining path to change, after the authorities dissolved 40 political parties.

The authorities accused the parties of not complying with the law - a charge they have rejected.

The move comes two months after former junta head Mamady Doumbouya was sworn-

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