Here’s a rundown of all the news you need to start your Wednesday, including Dubai-Tel Aviv flight being diverted to Saudi Arabia after stabbing, US ending military presence in Iraq, and French, Spanish leaders welcoming UK premier’s intention to rejoin EU.
A fight between the pilots of a passenger plane flying from Dubai to Tel Aviv reportedly triggered a hijacking code before the aircraft landed in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, according to Israeli daily Ynet.
“An altercation occurred in the flight deck of flight FZ 1073,” said Flydubai, and said crew members traveling aboard the aircraft managed to secure the plane and divert it safely to Saudi Arabia.
The Dubai-based carrier said the flight, which was operating from Dubai International Airport to Ben Gurion International Airport, landed safely at Tabuk Airport and all passengers and crew were safe and accounted for.
Flydubai said the reasons and motives behind the altercation remain unknown and are subject to a formal investigation.
US President Donald Trump announced the last American forces are leaving Iraq, declaring an end to more than two decades of US military involvement in the country.
“Today, I am pleased to announce that the last American Forces are leaving Iraq!” Trump said on his social media platform Truth Social.
“It has been a long time, with very bad decision-making that got us involved in this quagmire in the first place, but soon, that will be part of History,” he added.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday welcomed UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s intention to rejoin the EU.
“Welcome back. If the British want to come back ... I think that is very good news, both for his country and for Europeans,” Macron told a joint news conference with Sanchez in Madrid.
Stressing that it would be “a good decision,” Macron said Burnham was right to “have that boldness.”
Cristiano Ronaldo left Portugal’s national team camp, hours after head coach Jorge Jesus said the veteran forward would not start the UEFA Nations League match on Thursday against Denmark.
Ronaldo confirmed his departure in a social media statement after speaking with Portuguese Football Federation President Pedro Proenca.
There was no consultation with goalkeepers within the Republic of Ireland team prior to squad selection for the Israel matches, the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) Director of Football said on Wednesday.
Senior executives at the FAI, including CEO David Courell, President Paul Cooke and Director of Football John Martin, appeared before an Irish parliamentary committee to answer questions about safeguarding, especially with Israel matches a constant topic of the meeting.
The delegation also provided testimony on the FAI’s decision-making process for the Israel fixture.
The Gaza war documentary NAZA topped the Italian box office on its first two days in theaters, with total ticket sales reaching nearly €1.1 million ($1.24 million) by Tuesday.
The film opened at No. 1 on Monday with €451,872 in ticket sales and 60,467 admissions, more than twice the €179,612 earned by the Avengers: Endgame re-release that day.
It remained in first place Tuesday, taking another €623,164 and drawing more than 83,000 viewers. The film has grossed €1,096,816 cumulatively, drawing 146,720 admissions.
Contemporary Istanbul, Türkiye’s international contemporary art fair, brought together 70 galleries from 16 countries, 736 artists and 1,372 artworks for its 21st edition.
Organized with Akbank as its main partner, the five-day fair attracted 38,500 visitors, with international attendance rising 50% from the previous edition, according to the Contemporary Istanbul Foundation for Art, Culture and Education.
Twenty-two galleries joined the fair for the first time, while Istanbul hosted VIP guests from 37 countries and representatives of 148 institutions.
Artificial intelligence (AI) agents attempted to hack US and Canadian government websites, according to a report released Wednesday by the San Francisco-based nonprofit research lab Transluce.
The report said researchers found “two rudimentary and failed hacking attempts, one against the US Department of Education's Civil Rights Data Collection, and one against Library and Archives Canada, a Canadian federal agency.”
Experts told a US Senate hearing that autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) agents now pose a serious threat to critical infrastructure, calling on lawmakers to tighten oversight and hold developers accountable.
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee's disaster management subcommittee held the hearing, titled "Rogue AI: Securing the Homeland Against AI Agent Attacks," examining an incident in which AI agents from OpenAI attacked Hugging Face, a site that AI developers use to store and share code.
Sen. Josh Hawley opened by arguing that AI developers should face the same liability as other manufacturers.
Selcuk Bayraktar, chairman of the board of trustees of the Türkiye Technology Team Foundation (T3 Foundation) and chairman of the TEKNOFEST board, described the festival as “a confidence revolution” challenging the mindset that says “we cannot do it” in his opening speech at TEKNOFEST Southeast.
“TEKNOFEST is a confidence revolution. It is a rebellion against the mentality that says, ‘We cannot do it.’ It is an objection to imitation and learned helplessness,” Bayraktar said in his opening address.
Türkiye’s premier aviation, space and technology festival TEKNOFEST opened its doors to visitors Wednesday in the southeastern province of Sanliurfa.
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