Charles Spencer, Princess Diana’s brother, alleges in a forthcoming memoir that King Charles made dismissive and elated-sounding remarks after Diana’s death. Buckingham Palace challenged the reliability of the claims, saying grief can affect judgment and memory.
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Researchers have described Leopardus tilcayo, a small spotted wild cat from Bolivia’s Yungas cloud forests, as a new species. Scientists say its population is unknown and its habitat faces mounting threats.
The Trump administration will allow Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi to attend the U.N. General Assembly under travel and purchasing restrictions. The U.S. is again blocking Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas from attending the gathering.
King Charles urged AI executives at a summit in Scotland to confront the “existential dangers” of the technology falling into the wrong hands. Leaders from Nvidia, OpenAI, Anthropic and DeepMind discussed safety, regulation and the pace of AI development.
Mark Carney welcomed an EU proposal for closer Canada-Europe ties and said the goal is “collective resilience,” not full EU membership. Donald Trump dismissed the idea as “laughable” and threatened heavy tariffs on Europe if he sees bad intent.
Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said he will resign after Sweden’s left-leaning opposition won a narrow three-seat parliamentary majority. Magdalena Andersson’s Social Democrats are set to lead talks on forming a government, but divisions within the bloc could slow the process.
U.N.-backed experts said they found reasonable grounds to believe the United States committed war crimes in two Feb. 28 strikes in Iran, including one on a school in Minab. The same report accused Iran’s government of crimes against humanity in its repression of protesters and detainees.
Nepal plans to use a World Weather Attribution study linking climate change to last month’s deadly Himalayan floods as the basis for a claim to a UN loss-and-damage fund. The disaster has killed more than 1,400 people across Nepal and Tibet and left thousands missing.