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WASHINGTON, June 11 (Reuters) – U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin on Thursday defended the Trump administration’s visa denials as the World Cup kicked off this week, saying it had conferred with FIFA officials but declining to discuss specific cases. (Reporting by Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff; additional reporting by Andrew Goudward and Ted Hesson; writing by Susan Heavey) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

NEW YORK (AP) — Peer-to-peer payment service Zelle will expand to India later this year, the payment service’s first international market since the payment service launched nearly a decade ago. Early Warning Services, the operator of the Zelle network, said it was choosing India as a “natural starting point” for its international expansion. Roughly a third of all remittances that are sent to India each year come from the United […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Many workers fear machines will supplant them as adoption of artificial intelligence accelerates. But what if people have qualities both unmistakably human and essential to career success that AI could not easily replace them? Some workplace experts argue that with more businesses adopting AI tools, soft skills such as empathy, critical thinking and ethical decision-making are worth cultivating to help employees become indispensible. Across industries and […]

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Supreme Court is weighing whether to extend the detention of a prominent Palestinian doctor who was seized by Israeli forces 17 months ago in Gaza and appeared via video conference before the judges to challenge his imprisonment. By Thursday afternoon, the court had not yet released a decision, said Naji Abbas, director of prisoners and detainees at Physicians for Human Rights — Israel, a nonprofit group. […]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Anthropic will donate $150 million to launch a fellowship program that places coaches with nonprofits around the country to help them use artificial intelligence more effectively in their work. Claude Corps, named for the company’s popular AI chatbot, will hire and embed 1,000 fellows trained in the use of Claude at a wide range of organizations for a year. Anthropic President Daniela Amodei told The Associated […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The opening of a Canadian-U.S. bridge across the Detroit River that President Donald Trump previously threatened to block has been delayed due to “outstanding issues.” In a statement released Thursday ahead of a Friday ribbon-cutting ceremony at the bridge, the Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority says “Canada and the United States have agreed to delay the opening of the bridge, taking the necessary time to resolve any outstanding issues.” […]

The European Central Bank on Thursday became the first major central bank to raise interest rates in response to the Iran war as policymakers including new U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh wrestle with how to confront the inflation fed by sharply higher oil prices. The ECB’s rate-setting council raised its benchmark rate to 2.25% from 2%, where it had been for a year. The move comes ahead of rate-setting […]

LONDON (AP) — British Defense Secretary John Healey unexpectedly resigned on Thursday, saying the government is not willing to spend enough on the military at a time of rising threat. Healey told Prime Minister Keir Starmer that the government’s Defense Investment Plan falls “well short of what is required at this dangerous time.” Publication of the plan has been delayed amid reports of disagreement between the defense ministry and the […]

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The United Nations mission in Afghanistan said Thursday it had documented the deaths of 13 civilians, mainly children and women, from Pakistani airstrikes on eastern Afghanistan the previous day, confirming the death toll given by Afghan authorities. Pakistan had dismissed as propaganda a statement by Afghan government spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid on Wednesday that the airstrikes in the provinces of Khost, Kunar and Paktika had killed 13 […]