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Cables and cooling bring AI windfall to Indian suppliers
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MUMBAI, India, July 31, 2026 (AFP) – At a bustling factory in western India, technicians work around the clock to turn glass into hair-thin fibre-optic strands destined for data centres powering the global artificial intelligence boom. Indian manufacturers are cashing in on the AI infrastructure buildout by supplying cables, power…
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Hamas officials say deal agreed on group’s arms, gradual Israel withdrawal from Gaza
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GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories, July 31, 2026 (AFP) – Senior Hamas officials told AFP on Friday that the deal reached with Israel to end the war includes provisions addressing the group’s weapons and the gradual withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Gaza Strip. The thorny issue of Hamas’s disarmament has…
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US military launches ‘powerful’ retaliatory strikes on Iran
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TEHRAN, July 30, 2026 (AFP) – The United States military launched “powerful” strikes on Iran on Thursday, in retaliation for Tehran’s attacks targeting US bases in Jordan as the Middle East war reignited and again drew in the Islamic republic’s proxies. The first strikes after a nearly week-long lull in…







































