"I want you to play Minecraft until you defeat the Ender Dragon." I opened the game on my Mac and asked Codex to do just that ...

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The roots of Russia's invasion of Ukraine go back decades and run deep. The current conflict is more than one country fighting to take over another; it is — in the words of one U.S. official — a shift ...

What help can Egypt offer Saudi Arabia in the war against the Houthis? Analysts say that any move from Egypt will remain ‘strictly defensive’, as the conflict in Yemen intensifies.